Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Salford Royal Hospital Town Salford Salary £24,465 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2025 23:59
Band 2
Job overview
The post holder will be part of a mobile team responsible for supporting endoscope decontamination across all service areas within the Salford Care Organisation (NCA), primarily based at the Decontamination Unit at Salford Royal Hospital and will work as a Decontamination Assistant.
This role is part of a seven-day service and will involve working on a rotational basis, including weekdays, evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.
Unfortunately, this role does not meet the criteria required to qualify for sponsorship.
Main duties of the job
1. Collect and receive used endoscopes into the designated dirty decontamination area, applying standard precautions for infection control and relevant health and safety measures.
2. Manually check and clean used endoscopes in line with local, national and manufacturer’s guidelines.
3. Prepare and Load endoscope into Automated Endoscope Reprocessor (AER) and set machine on decontamination cycle.
4. Document and sign confirmation of compliance for each stage of the decontamination process you have undertaken, ensuring that the electronic tracking and traceability system is completed accurately.
5. Monitor decontamination processes and the tracking and traceability system and report any issues or problems.
6. Unload decontaminated endoscopes from AER and prepare for transport or place into the drying cabinets, ensuring traceability system updated accordingly.
7. Comply with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy which outlines your responsibilities regarding Health & Safety at Work.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
* General standard of education to certification level
* NVQ 2 in health care or equivalent
Knowledge, Training & Experience
* Knowledge and understanding of the type of work involved and awareness of working in healthcare environment
* Previous experience of Endoscope decontamination process
* NHS experience
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to work flexibly to meet the demands of the service
* Must be able to work on a rotational shift pattern, which includes weekday, bank holidays evenings and weekends as part of seven – day service
* Able to relate well with colleagues/the multi-disciplinary team and wider staff
* Committed to delivering high standards of service
* Good organisational skills
* Able to work on own initiative, following direction by supervisor or service teams
* Good communication skills/written and verbal (Informative and concise application form)
* Basic computer skills
The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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