Sterile Services Assistant in Liverpool

Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Alder Hey Children's Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £25,272 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/09/2026 23:59

Sterile Services Assistant

Band 2

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

Come and join the land of remarkable people! As a world leader in healthcare and research we have something amazing – Alder Hey in the park, a hospital for children, designed and inspired by children. Along with a radical and ambitious vision, the Children’s Health Park is the future design of paediatric care and there’s nothing like it anywhere in Europe.

We have already earned our place as one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. Trust wide we treat 250,000 young patients a year and safely perform over 13,000 surgical procedures. Our catchment area has a population of over 7m, stretching from Cumbria, through Lancashire, Merseyside, most of Cheshire, parts of Shropshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Children from virtually every part of the UK, and also from around the world, visit Alder Hey for specialist treatment. As a result, we are recognised as Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease and have been designated as a national centre for craniofacial surgery and epilepsy surgery by the Department of Health.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• The post holder will work to maintain a high-quality service within a key part of the Operating Theatre Department process. Providing a continuous supply of sterile instruments and supplementary items by receiving / dispatching, transferring and rotating stock in the approved manner.
• The post holder will monitor surgical instruments within the process, advising theatre staff of any issues regarding surgical trays / instruments & liaise with the decontamination service provider (Synergy) to resolve any concerns.
• The post holder will undertake routine duties under minimal supervision.
• Transfer equipment/instrumentation between locations as required.
• Support with monitoring and recording of any instruments requiring repair/refurbishment and liaise with external repair providers.
• Support with completing Service Reports/CCN’s and replacing instruments on trays.
• Support with Loan equipment.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year. As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit. You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details outlining this role.

Person specification

Application form and interview

• Experience working in MDT workforce
• Good written and communication skills
• Educated to a GCSE level or equivalent
• NVQ or equivalent in decontamination

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.