Sterilisation Support Assistant

Job overview

The post holder will support and deputies for the Sterilisation Team on the operational and strategic management of sterile services with the trust’s external sterilisation service to maintain and improve the quality of surgical instrumentation within the trust.

The primary activity will be to undertake a range of supervised direct care duties, which are clearly prescribed both in this document and in more detail in the core competency list for the grade.

To carry out assigned tasks involving direct care in support of and supervised by sterilisation senior member of team and to provide equipment support to ensure efficient theatre operations.

To work collaboratively with wide range of staff, clinical Team, managers, infection control, Steris team and representatives as appropriate with issues pertaining to reusable medical devices.

To assist in the reprocessing and distribution of medical and surgical reusable devices for use in patient care.

Main duties of the job

To actively participate in all areas are covered and re-organising the working practices when necessary to meet the service demands.

To monitor stock availability of sets /supplementary as requested and to take appropriate action on any deficiencies.

To prioritise work based on known or probable needs of Theatres/Departments, and deal with problems as they arise.

To act as a link person between Theatres and the Sterile Services Unit and ensuring high levels of communication.

Work very closely with the Theatre Team to monitor and plan for the efficient usage of reusable medical devices and loan equipment to meet service needs.

Ensure efficient provision of sterile packs and instruments that are required by Theatres for the operating lists and associated departments

Assisting Trust Sterilisation team to support the monitoring of the sterile services provider, Steris performance, monitoring, maintaining and analyses the non-conformity in accordance with data analysis by reviewing and taking corrective action behalf of for the customer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached supporting document which contains more and the person specification for this role.