Be partof the team that keeps patients safe every single day!
Are youmotivated, detail driven, and passionate about supporting excellent patientcare behind the scenes? Join us at Benenden Hospital as a DecontaminationTechnician, where your work directly contributes to patient safety and first classclinical outcomes.
This isyour opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring our reusable medical devicesare processed to the highest standards because in this role, everyinstrument you handle helps a patient on their journey to better health.
Why ThisRole Matters
Behindevery procedure, every surgery, and every moment of patient recovery, your workensures safety, reliability, and confidence. If you take pride in precision,teamwork and doing things right, youll thrive here.
Main duties of the job
What You will Do
As a key member of our Decontamination team, you will:
* Work collaboratively to deliver a controlled, high quality decontamination service for reusable medical devices
* Ensure excellent standards throughout all stages of the decontamination process, supporting outstanding patient care
* Accurately record information to maintain a full trackandtrace system, ensuring safety and compliance
* Prioritise workload effectively with your team and internal clinical departments
* Follow our Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System to ensure safe, consistent, and compliant operations
About us
At Benenden Hospital we put patients at the heart of everythingwe do. We attract kind, compassionate, and talented people to ourultra-modernprivate hospital, which opened in 1907 and has been rated asOutstanding by the CQC.We hold JAG accreditation for Endoscopy and have abeautiful setting in the middle of the Kent countryside.
Benenden Hospital offers excellent working conditions andfacilities. We promote flexible working and a healthy work/life balance.We are committed to professional development and have excellent trainingand education facilities. We work hard to make sure that everyone atBenenden Hospital feels involved and shares our values and vision for thefuture.
Job responsibilities
Purpose:To support clinical activity and excellence in patientsafety by providing a controlled Decontamination Service for reusable medical
The post holder will:
Work aspart of a team providing a controlled decontamination service, reprocessingreusable medical devices for Benenden
Hospital
Contributingto the clinical care of the patient by achieving standards of excellencethroughout all processes of decontamination
Accuraterecording of information to ensure a full track and traceability system.
Work with the team and internal customers to prioritiseworkload
Work in accordance with the departments StandardOperating Procedures and Quality Management System
KeyResult Areas
To reprocessreusable surgical instruments and flexible endoscopes including receipt,disassembly, manual cleaning, automated wash-disinfection, inspection,functionality testing, assembly, packing, sterilization and despatch
To operatedecontamination equipment safely and carry out routine daily tests as set outin the DS Planned Preventative Maintenance and periodic testing schedule
Use ofelectronic tracking and traceability system
To plan andprioritise workload with consideration to the DS team and the needs of theinternal customer and patients
Thereporting of resource issues to Deputy DS Manager or DS Manager
Accurateand timely reporting of breakdowns
Person SpecificationQualifications
* Knowledge and experience in the decontamination of reusable medical devices
* Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
* NVQ level 3/Technical Certificate Decontamination or equivalent level and knowledge and experience through decontamination training or willingness to undertake
* Working in a timely manner while achieving high levels of accuracy
* Be flexible and adaptable to meet the changing needs
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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