Job Description:
Surgical Instruments Coordinator
Cromwell Hospital, London SW5 0TU
Permanent
£13,332.50 + fantastic benefits
Part time – 20 hrs (Monday to Sunday shifts from 7:45am to 3:45pm and 1pm to 9pm)
Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.
Role Overview
As a Surgical Instruments Coordinator, you will coordinate the flow of surgical instruments across the department in line with decontamination and infection control protocols. In the absence of the Lead SIC, you’ll be the point of contact between Cromwell Hospital and the Offsite service provider to ensure that instruments are collected and returned within agreed timeframes and are available for surgical procedures.
What you’ll do:
1. To manage the receipt and dispatch of surgical instruments from 3rd party offsite sterilisation service provider.
2. Handling contaminated instruments, preparing them to be transferred to the Sterilisation Departments, packing sterile instruments away on their return.
3. Ensuring there is accurate documentation for all instruments leaving and returning to the hospital
4. Management of instrumentation needs based upon Operating Theatre schedule
5. Responsible for identifying damaged instruments and coordinating this with the lead SIC
6. Make suggestions to Surgical Instruments Lead on future instrument sterilisation orders based on analysis of past tray builds and fast track usage
7. Independently determines appropriate container size for instrument containers, assess needs for custom-made instrument carriers
8. Identify and suggest approaches for storage and purchasing of inventory
9. Act as an instrument expert and resource for staff related to instrument needs
What you’ll bring:
10. Minimum NVQ/QCF Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience
11. IT Literate – Word, Excel
12. Over 1 years experience of working in a theatre or CSSD environment
13. Excellent communication skills - verbal and written.
14. Excellent interpersonal skills
15. Ability to prioritise and organise working routine unsupervised.
16. Ability to work on own initiative.
17. Flexible
18. Supportive and Approachable
Benefits
Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. We believe all our colleagues should be rewarded for their efforts. We offer a range of benefits to support both your physical and mental wellbeing such as:
19. 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
20. Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
21. An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
22. Annual performance-based bonus as part of the Staff Bonus Scheme
23. Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
24. Various other benefits and online discounts