At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.
A vacancy has arisen for the position of Sterile Services Co-ordinator across the Trust. This is a fully flexible job role and may include shift patterns that include weekends.
Predominantly working core shifts of 08:00 - 16:00 Monday through to Friday with weekend cover on an adhoc basis.
The sterile services co-ordinator will be responsible for co-ordination of instrument activity between theatres and the decontamination teams.
- 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.
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.
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