Entry-Level Sterile Services Technician | Training Path

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

Benefits offered by this job

Structured training

Education leading to qualifications

Career progression

Generous leave

Job summary

STERIS Instrument Processing is hiring an entry-level Sterile Services Technician to support the end-to-end sterilisation of instruments used in NHS and private hospitals. The role includes comprehensive training to develop a defined career pathway, with emphasis on accuracy and patient safety.

You will join a team delivering high-quality infection prevention solutions, receive structured education, and progress within a supportive, diverse environment.

Qualifications

• Educated to a good general standard with demonstrable verbal and numerical abilities.
• Basic end-user IT skills to operate track and traceability IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Following a highly regulated end to end sterilization/decontamination process on surgical instruments that have been used in operations in local NHS and private hospitals, to ensure they can be used again safely for the next patient.
• Ensuring the effective preparation of sterile consumables (dressings, linen, surgical instruments, and equipment) by the process of decontamination, inspection assembly and packing within predefined quality standards.
• Rigorously checking, washing, laying up and packing sets of theatre instruments to meet contract specifications within predefined quality standards.
• Safely operating and monitoring machines and equipment (washer/disinfectors, ultrasonic and sterilisers) effectively.
• Ensuring that repairs and missing instruments or equipment are recorded and logged on the Tracking and Traceability computer system (SynergyTrak).
• Ensuring that repaired instruments or equipment are returned to stock or the appropriate coded sets or the Trust’s appointed person.

Skills

Flexibility

Teamwork

Integrity

Working under pressure

Accountability

Attention to detail

Job description

STERIS Instrument Processing is hiring an entry-level Sterile Services Technician to support the end-to-end sterilisation of instruments used in NHS and private hospitals. The role includes comprehensive training to develop a defined career pathway, with emphasis on accuracy and patient safety.

You will join a team delivering high-quality infection prevention solutions, receive structured education, and progress within a supportive, diverse environment.