Sterile Services Assistant in Liverpool

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. 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 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.

Main duties of the job:

• 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.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.

Should you require any assistance during the application stages please contact the recruiting manager of the vacancy or the recruitment team at recruitment@alderhey.nhs.uk or call 0151 282 4599.