Sterile Services Assistant: Decontamination & Training

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning opportunities

Flexible working

NHS pension

Annual leave

Discount schemes

Health & wellbeing

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's Stoke Mandeville Hospital is seeking a Sterile Services Assistant to join the newly completed Sterile Services Department. You will handle medical devices essential to surgical teams and support decontamination and sterilisation cycles, with full training provided.

Hours are 37.5 per week on a rolling day shift, with on-call duties once trained. The role offers NHS benefits, ongoing development, flexible working where possible, and the chance to contribute

Qualifications

• Responsibilities include effective communication with colleagues to prioritise workload and resolve issues.
• Knowledge of decontamination procedures and sterile services workflows.
• Data entry and records management within the department.

Responsibilities

• Accurately exchange information with colleagues and customers to enable; prioritisation of work and prevention/resolution of problems.
• Understand a range of routine work procedures that require in house training.
• Maintain and update knowledge of instruments across a wide range of surgical specialties.
• Understand and maintain knowledge of decontamination procedures including safe operation of automated machinery.
• Participate in on-call team when fully trained.
• Maintain educational standards by attending departmental lectures and hospital courses regularly to meet the requirements of Health & Safety.
• Ensure recommended best practice is adhered to at all times.
• Daily maintenance of theatre instruments, dismantling and re-assembling of surgical instruments following the relevant work instructions.
• Responsible for data entry to maintain records of instrumentation within the department.

Skills

Communication

Decontamination procedures

Data entry

Job description

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust's Stoke Mandeville Hospital is seeking a Sterile Services Assistant to join the newly completed Sterile Services Department. You will handle medical devices essential to surgical teams and support decontamination and sterilisation cycles, with full training provided.

Hours are 37.5 per week on a rolling day shift, with on-call duties once trained. The role offers NHS benefits, ongoing development, flexible working where possible, and the chance to contribute