Sterile services co-ordinator

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Willingness and aptitude to undertake training
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

• Make judgements on the suitability of reusable instruments in consultation with surgical teams and those responsible for decontamination.
• Determine appropriate instrument-set structures designed to assist in the prevention of instruments migrating between sets in consultation with clinical specialists and decontamination teams.
• Ensure robust process is in place to monitor supplementary instruments
• Ensure that guidance on tracking and traceability is appropriately applied to all instruments (including loan sets) and collaborate with those responsible for patient records to ensure any patient with whom they are used can be identified and linked to the sets or individual instruments used.
• Ensure that missing or damaged surgical instruments are replaced preserving the appropriate set structure.
• Oversee the monitoring of the condition and suitability of surgical instruments.
• Ensure instruments no longer used are removed from sets.
• Work with the budget holder to ensure instrument sets with missing or damaged items are identified and updated.
• Attend weekly meetings with sterile services and operations team to review service reports and provide timely updates.
• Investigate any incidents that pertain to sterile services in consultation with the surgical teams.
• Review the daily production summary and action any necessary tasks that arise from the report.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.