Lead Technician Sterile Services

Nuffield Health; Hempstalls; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity in the UK is seeking a Lead Technician to manage sterilization processes within its state-of-the-art Sterile Services Unit. This position involves leading a team, reporting equipment issues, and ensuring high standards in patient safety. Ideal candidates will possess strong organizational and communication skills, alongside a basic education in relevant fields and previous sterile services training. The role is full-time and offers a competitive salary with additional benefits, including gym membership and health assessments.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated with a clean working environment.
• Ability to maintain accurate records and documentation.
• Familiarity with checking medical devices for cleanliness and functionality.

Responsibilities

• Help lead a Team of HSSU Process Technicians.
• Organise workload to meet customer requirements.
• Ensure process equipment is in working order and report faults.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Basic computer literacy

Education

General education with proven literacy and numeracy

Evidence of previous sterile services training

Tools

Knowledge of Endoscopes

Job description

Overview

Lead Technician

Stoke HSSU Hub | Sterilisation Services | Permanent | Full time

£26,866.94 per annum, dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week

Monday to Friday rotational shift week to week

06:00 am – 14:00 pm

12:00 pm – 20:00 pm

If you’re enthusiastic, motivated and you’ve previously worked in a sterile services environment, this is an exciting opportunity to join the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. Taking care of the nation’s health starts with a supply of sterile and disinfected medical devices that meet our customers’ needs. It starts with you.

Our HSSU Stoke Team currently have an opportunity for a HSSU Lead Technician. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

The opportunity

Based in our state of the art Sterile Services Unit, your work will be varied, stimulating and will involve the cleaning, disinfection, inspection, packaging and sterilization of surgical instruments. By joining us you’ll be making a significant contribution to Patient Safety in both Private and NHS Hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Help lead a Team of HSSU Process Technicians.
• Assist in organising the workload to ensure Customer requirements are met.
• Ensure that process equipment and accessories are in full working order and that all faults and anomalies are reported.
• Solve issues / problems and escalate where necessary.
• Deal with Customer queries.

The person

To succeed as a HSSU Lead Technician, you will need:

• To be enthusiastic and motivated.
• To have good organisational skills; post holders will be required to maintain accurate records/documentation in accordance with statutory and organisational policies and procedures.
• To maintain a clean and tidy working environment whilst checking medical devices for cleanliness, functionality and damage, and taking action to rectify any problems and escalating issues where necessary.
• To monitor stock issues as they arise and advise their line manager when goods need to be re-ordered.

Requirements

• A basic standard of general education with proven literacy and numeracy.
• Evidence of previous sterile services training.
• A knowledge of Endoscopes and their reprocessing.
• Good communication skills, verbal and written, and basic computer literacy.
• Attention to detail and an overarching desire to deliver a high quality service.

Helping you feel good

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.