Sterile Services Technician in Oxford

Full-time Sterile Services Technician – Grade Band 2 (Main area CLINICAL SUPPORT). Salary: £25,272 per annum (pro‑rata). Hours are fixed Monday to Friday 13:00–21:00.

Responsible for the receipt, disassembly, cleaning, reassembly, packing and sterilisation of reusable medical devices. Assist supervisors in providing a specialised medical‑device decontamination service that contributes to clinical care.

• Accurately exchange information with colleagues and customers to prioritise work and resolve problems.
• Deal courteously and professionally with colleagues to foster good teamwork.
• Provide routine data to departmental supervisors.
• Understand a range of work procedures that require on‑job training.
• Maintain and update knowledge of instruments across all specialities.
• Understand and maintain knowledge of decontamination procedures, including safe operation of automated machinery.
• Attend departmental lectures and hospital courses to maintain educational standards and health & safety compliance.
• Organise daily tasks to ensure best practice is adhered to at all times.
• Make judgments involving straightforward job‑related facts or situations and identify routine problems that may prevent adherence to decontamination/quality standards.
• Use hand/eye coordination to check, pack and assemble surgical equipment to required quality standards.
• Achieve departmental production targets within recommended best practice and mandatory standards.
• Provide basic clinical technical services following strict decontamination guidelines for cleaning, sterilisation and packing of surgical equipment.
• Follow departmental documented policies and procedures at all times.
• Perform daily maintenance of theatre instruments, dismantling and re‑assembling surgical instruments and checking optics using relevant work instructions and comprehensive instrument checklists, reporting missing components.
• Maintain stock within all production areas, reorder as required and control stock rotation.
• Demonstrate work activities to untrained staff when qualified.
• Enter data onto the computer to maintain records of instrumentation within the department (tracking and tracing).
• Complete time sheets and other work records as required.
• Undertake surveys and audits of cleanliness and work requirements within written guidelines.
• Test decontamination equipment according to relevant HTMs on a daily basis.
• Work within well‑established procedures, following guidelines for good practice with supervisory availability for reference.
• Stand while carrying out duties in all production areas and exert moderate physical effort unloading and loading trolleys into washer disinfectors and sterilisers.
• Maintain concentration at specific times during the decontamination process to produce correctly laid‑up and packaged surgical instruments.
• Be aware of and mitigate exposure to body fluids during handling of contaminated sets containing sharp instruments.
• Carry out duties in accordance with the policies, procedures and practice of Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, which may be amended by the Trust.
• Accept that responsibilities may be extended or altered to include other tasks commensurate with the grade.

• IDSc Technician certificate Level 2
• Apprenticeship in Healthcare Sciences

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