Entry-Level Sterile Services Technician: Training & Growth

STERIS; Reading; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5% bonus

25 days annual leave

Training program

Apprenticeship study time

Job summary

STERIS Instrument Processing is hiring an entry-level Sterile Services Technician in Reading, UK. You will complete 12 weeks of training, then work in an alternating early/late shift pattern with overtime on some weekends.

You will manage sterilization and decontamination of surgical instruments, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, while developing your skills through structured training and potential industry qualifications.

Qualifications

• Educated to a good general standard.
• Basic end-user IT skills to operate track and traceability IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Follow a regulated end-to-end sterilization/decontamination process for surgical instruments to ensure safe reuse.
• Prepare sterile consumables by decontamination, inspection, assembly and packing to predefined quality standards.
• Rigorously check, wash, lay up and pack theatre instrument sets to contract specs.
• Operate and monitor washing and sterilising equipment effectively.
• Record and log instrument repairs or missing items on the Tracking and Traceability system (SynergyTrak).
• Return repaired instruments or equipment to stock or coded sets.

Skills

Flexibility

Teamwork

Integrity

Working under pressure

Accountability

Attention to detail

Tools

Track and traceability IT systems

Job description

STERIS Instrument Processing is hiring an entry-level Sterile Services Technician in Reading, UK. You will complete 12 weeks of training, then work in an alternating early/late shift pattern with overtime on some weekends.

You will manage sterilization and decontamination of surgical instruments, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance, while developing your skills through structured training and potential industry qualifications.