Decontamination Technician Kingston upon Hull, England
Job description
Within CDU we have various grades of staff to allow for progression within the Department. We have 46 Decontamination technicians over various shifts with a 1 in 5 weekend rota. We have 4 Technician Supervisors and 4 Team Leaders during the week and one weekend Team Leader.
Duties include reprocessing surgical instrumentation to be used in a clinical setting.
Flexible approach to work, work well under pressure and possess excellent communication and organisational skills.
Main duties include washing the instruments, packing instruments and sterilising them. You will then dispatch them onto trollies to be taken to the various theatres for use.
Work is repetitive and will involve manual handling of loads and you will be required to be on your feet for the duration of your shift.
The successful candidate will be fully trained whilst working within all areas of the department, the dirty area where instruments are cleaned, the clean room where they are packed ready for sterilising and then the autoclave area where all the instruments are sterilised. They then go through to dispatch. This is a varied role once fully trained.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust strongly encourages new starters to have the Covid-19 vaccine. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to work for us.
HUTH has two main sites: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital with an annual budget of approximately £800 million. The Trust employs around 11,000 staff and serves an extended population of 1.25 million, delivering a number of outpatient services from locations across the area.
The Trust’s secondary care service portfolio is comprehensive, covering the major medical and surgical specialties, routine and specialist diagnostic services and other clinical support services. These services are provided primarily to a catchment population of approximately 600,000 in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire area.
HUTH provides specialist and tertiary services to a population of 1.25 million extending from Scarborough in North Yorkshire to Grimsby and Scunthorpe in North East and North Lincolnshire respectively.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
