SSD Assistant/Spire Nottingham/Tollerton/Bank/Ad-Hoc Shifts/Competitive Rates of Pay
Spire (Blank) Hospital has an exciting opportunity for (Blank) to join the team on a (Blank) basis.
Duties and responsibilities:
Under general supervision, with opportunity to make independent decisions, performs duties that will include receiving, sorting, inspecting, cleaning, disinfecting, assembling, preparing, sterilizing, storing and issuing reusable surgical instruments and equipment.
To assist the multi-disciplinary theatre team to provide exemplary care by ensuring theatre and endoscopy instrumentation and equipment are correct and ready for use.
- Undertake routine tasks related to individual’s health and well-being.
- Production and communication of information and knowledge
- Contribute to own personal development.
- Assist in maintaining own and others’ health and safety and security.
- Assist in maintaining and developing services.
- Ensure own actions help to maintain quality.
- Ensure own actions support equality, diversity and rights.
- Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI
Who we're looking for:
- Level I – GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths
- Level II – Certificate in Decontamination or NVQ level 3 in Decontamination
- Or TVQ level 1 & 2 in Decontamination
- Or City and Guilds Certificates in Decontamination / Endoscopy
- Experience involving quality systems
- Experience involving checking and monitoring.
- Literacy in the use of IT equipment and software
- Basic awareness of health, safety and hygiene
- English language to IELTS 7.0
- Possess the mandatory training requirements for role including infection control and health and safety competencies.
- Possess Decontamination Equipment and Medical devices competences
- Knowledge of medical terminology
- Trained on MS Office and other relevant packages
- Awareness of role of SSD
Benefits:
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Smartspending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
- Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You’
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion.
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together
We commit to our employees’ well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward .
“Spire Healthcare is a leading independent healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.”
Our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business bringing together the best people who are dedicated to developing excellent clinical environments and delivering the highest quality patient care.
Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
