This role sits in theatres at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, coordinating surgical instruments and equipment between operating theatres and sterile services. The post-holder handles instrument requests, Steris deliveries and loan instruments, prepares next-day lists and works to reduce fast‑tracked reprocessing. Decontamination work sets the post apart: reusable medical devices are reprocessed and logged on a track and trace database. Experience of manual handling, PPE, COSHH and risk assessments is essential.
What the job involves
- Coordinate surgical instruments to and from sterile services, recording issues and resolving them where required
- Ensure medical equipment, including TOE machines and probes, pumps and pacing boxes, is available for the start of theatre lists, working with Medical Engineering
- Act as the main point of contact between theatre staff, theatre management and sterile services for instrument requests
- Monitor instrument deliveries and manage new and loan instruments in line with national guidance and Trust policy
- Provide next‑day instrument requirement lists to sterile services to enable efficient reprocessing and reduce fast tracking
- Undertake decontamination duties, including receipt, disassembly, cleaning, disinfection, reassembly, packing, sterilisation or high‑level disinfection of reusable medical devices
- Record all decontamination tasks on the track and trace database
- Coordinate instruments against theatre schedules and surgeons' preference cards for efficient operating lists
What's required
Experience
- Experience implementing manual handling regulations, PPE and COSHH, and completing risk assessments
Skills & knowledge
- Knowledge of surgical instruments and clinical demands
- Excellent technical and communication skills
- Ability to inspire, motivate and lead staff
- Ability to explain quality and safety requirements for handling and storing instruments clearly and precisely
- Ability to plan and set objectives to maximise instrument utilisation
- Word, PC and Windows‑based software skills
Other
- Ability to prioritise workload and keep the work area organised
- Understanding of data quality, data protection and confidential use of patient information
- Working within a quality‑driven governance framework to national objectives and Department of Health requirements
- Leading by example on safety for self, staff, visitors and patients
- Flexibility and working on own initiative with a positive attitude
Nice to have
- Understanding of medical device regulation, MDA/MHRA and Department of Health CJD requirements
- Experience of internal quality audits and reporting to management on instrument asset management
- Experience ordering surgical instruments from suppliers and using instrument tracking and traceability systems
- Detailed knowledge of the actions and limits of sterile services reprocessing
- Responsiveness to change and to new technology or ways of working
- Creative thinking to respond to changing clinical need
What's offered
- Encouragement of flexible working in a variety of forms
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
