Responsibilities
* To participate in a duty rota which includes weekday evening shifts, weekends, bank holidays and on‑call commitments.
* To communicate all relevant information within the team to ensure the continual and efficient running of the service.
* To communicate and liaise between decontamination personnel, customers and other members of healthcare staff in a polite and helpful manner.
* To demonstrate competency and understanding of sterilisation and disinfection procedures.
* To report any untoward accident/incident or any faulty equipment to the supervisor and document the procedure in accordance with departmental and Trust policies.
* Any additional new development or tasks required as deemed necessary by the management to support existing Trust activities, in line with the individual’s level of responsibility and competence.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9,000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five‑Star Patient Care. The Trust provides emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, medical and surgical specialties across all sites, primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble and West Lancashire, and an inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital for rehabilitative care. Urgent care is offered at the Urgent Treatment Centre in St Helens town centre. Specialist regional services include the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital, serving more than 4 million people across Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. The Trust has achieved a CQC rating of Outstanding (August 2018), is listed among the Top 100 NHS workplaces (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal), and received National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for its Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
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