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Lead Technician

Tiverton HSSU Hub | Sterilisation Services | Permanent | Full time
£26,000 per annum, dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week - Alternating shift - (Wk. 1 - Weds to Fri 9am-7pm & Sat 4pm to 2am) - (Wk. 2 - Weds to Fri 12pm to 10pm & Sat 4pm to 2am)

Additional hours will be offered as overtime or TOIL depending on workloads. Between 7pm and 7am hours are paid at 30% enhancement rate, and weekends at 20%. Bank Holidays paid as double time if required with time back in lieu.

If you’re enthusiastic, motivated and you’ve previously worked in a sterile services environment, this is an exciting opportunity to join the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. Taking care of the nation’s health starts with a supply of sterile and disinfected medical devices that meet our customers’ needs. It starts with you.

Our HSSU Tiverton Team currently have an opportunity for a HSSU Lead Technician. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

Based in our state of the art Sterile Services Unit, your work will be varied, stimulating and will involve the cleaning, disinfection, inspection, packaging and sterilization of surgical instruments. By joining us you’ll be making a significant contribution to Patient Safety in both Private and NHS Hospitals.

• Help lead a Team of HSSU Process Technicians.
• Assist is organising the workload to ensure Customer requirements are met.
• Ensure that process equipment and accessories are in full working order and that all faults and anomalies are reported.
• Solve issues / problems and upscale where necessary.
• Deal with Customer queries.

To succeed as a HSSU Lead Technician, you will need:

• To be enthusiastic and motivated.
• To have good organisational skills, post holders will be required to maintain accurate records / documentation in accordance with statutory and organisational policies and procedures.
• To maintain a clean and tidy working environment whilst checking medical devices for cleanliness, functionality and damage, and taking action to rectify any problems and escalating issues where necessary.
• To monitor stock issues as they arise and advise their line manager when goods need to be re-ordered.

• A basic standard of general education with proven literacy and numeracy.
• Evidence of previous sterile services training.
• A knowledge of Endoscopes and their reprocessing.
• Good communication skills, verbal and written, and basic computer literacy.
• Attention to detail and an overarching desire to deliver a high quality service.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.