Lead Technician - Sterile Services

Nuffield Health; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity is seeking a Lead Technician based at their state-of-the-art Sterile Services Unit. The role involves leading a team, maintaining sterilisation processes of surgical instruments, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Ideal candidates should be organised, detail-oriented, and possess good communication skills along with sterile services training. This role is full-time, offers a competitive salary, and includes a range of health and wellbeing benefits.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and motivated with a desire for high-quality service.
• Ability to maintain accurate records in accordance with policies.
• Basic computer literacy and verbal/written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of HSSU Process Technicians.
• Organise workload to meet customer requirements.
• Ensure equipment is functioning and report any faults.
• Resolve customer queries and escalate issues where necessary.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Basic standard of general education

Evidence of previous sterile services training

Job description

Lead Technician

Stoke HSSU Hub | Sterilisation Services | Permanent | Full time
£26,866.40 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.

As our HSSU Lead Technician you will:

• Help lead a Team of HSSU Process Technicians.
• Assist is 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.

You will need to have:

• 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 fitness 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 wereceive 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.