Decontamination Technician

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; West Carr; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a decontamination technician to reprocess reusable medical and surgical instrument sets, including specialist instrumentation. You will ensure instruments are safe for patient use and operate to written specifications and procedures.

Full training will be provided to enable you to perform duties to the required standard and in compliance with quality standards.

Job description

Job Summary

As a decontamination technician you will be responsible for the reprocessing of reusable medical & surgical instrument sets including specialist instrumentation, ensuring they are safe for use on patients. Full training will be provided to enable you to perform your duties to an acceptable standard and in compliance with written specifications & procedures. Once training has been completed you will be expected to work in all areas of the department and assist, as required, in the co-ordination of activities to meet with service demand.

Key Working Relationships

The Central Decontamination Unit (CDU) is part of the Estates and Facilities Directorate, and works closely with the TACC Care Group. Staff at CDU regularly work together with theatre and clinic staff to ensure surgical instrumentation is fit for purpose and available to use when it is required., Main duties are inspecting and processing all instrument trays that will be used on patients. Full training will be given to use the decontamination machinery.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.