Decontamination Technician

QE Facilities Limited; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

QE Facilities Limited seeks a post holder to undertake decontamination and sterilisation duties across sterile services, endoscopy, and theatre logistics within the NHS framework.

You will disassemble, clean, sterilise and repackage devices, maintain traceable records, and work within controlled environments to ensure quality and compliance with national guidance.

Qualifications

• Experience in sterile services or NHS environment preferred.
• Ability to follow SOPs and maintain accurate records.
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements and quality systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform decontamination and sterilisation of equipment according to procedures.
• Disassemble, clean, pack and reassemble devices; dispatch and store in controlled environments.
• Maintain comprehensive task records for traceability; operate relevant computer systems.

Skills

Sterilisation procedures

Decontamination

Record keeping

Regulatory compliance

Education

GCSEs or equivalent

Tools

Computer databases

Inventory system

Job description

• The post holder will undertake decontamination and sterilisation duties according to equipment requirements and assist the supervisors and managers in providing a high-quality accredited (EN ISO 13485:2016 & JAG) service, this will be inclusive of logistical responsibilities and store management processes of reusable medical devices utilised within clinical care, and the sterilisation of pathology waste.
• The post holder will be required to receive, disassemble, clean, disinfect, reassemble, pack, sterilise as appropriate, dispatch, transfer and store devices within controlled environments, ensuring comprehensive records of all tasks are maintained for tracking traceability purposes; this will necessitate the operation of specific computer and database applications.
• Because some tasks expected within this role are governed by regulation (UK MDR) the employee must work in accordance to national guidance and published research; the departments Standard Operating procedures and quality management systems to ensure an effective and compliant service is delivered.
• The role will be a rotational post working between sterile services, endoscopy decontamination services, SSD logistics, and theatre store and pathology decontamination., Reprocessing of surgical instrumentation, Endoscopes, theatre logistics and reprocessing waste in pathology decontamination.
  QE Facilities (QEF) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNT), based in the North East of England.
• We provide a range of non- clinical services to GHNT and other NHS organisations. Our services include: estates, facilities services, procurement, medical engineering and devices, endoscopy decontamination and sterile services, transport, out-patient pharmacy, and prevention & management of violence & aggression training (PMVA). In addition we provide consultancy services, advising clients on all aspects of establishing a subsidiary company within an NHS body to the provision of VAT compliance advice. QE Facilities work to their own Terms and Conditions and these are not the same as Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Terms and Conditions. This is not an Agenda for Change Pay Rate. We do not hold a sponsorship licence and are unable to offer employment under any sponsorship arrangement.