Sterile Services Technician I — Training & Growth Path

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

Benefits offered by this job

5% performance bonus

Shift allowances

25 days annual leave

Structured training and apprentices

Job summary

STERIS Instrument Processing in Wolverhampton is hiring a Sterile Services Technician to join our NHS-facing team. You will follow an end-to-end sterilization process, prepare sterile consumables, and operate washer/disinfectors and sterilisers in a highly regulated environment.

We offer 12 weeks of training starting with Monday-Friday days, then the regular shift of 18:00–02:00 (37.5 hours). The annual salary is £25,272 with a 5% performance bonus, 25 days of leave, and access to Level 2

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

Education

Good general standard with verbal and numerical abilities

Tools

Track and traceability IT systems

Job description

STERIS Instrument Processing in Wolverhampton is hiring a Sterile Services Technician to join our NHS-facing team. You will follow an end-to-end sterilization process, prepare sterile consumables, and operate washer/disinfectors and sterilisers in a highly regulated environment.

We offer 12 weeks of training starting with Monday-Friday days, then the regular shift of 18:00–02:00 (37.5 hours). The annual salary is £25,272 with a 5% performance bonus, 25 days of leave, and access to Level 2