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An opportunity has arisen to work as a Decontamination Technician in the Endoscopy Unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary. The Endoscopy Unit provides essential therapeutic and diagnostic endoscopy services to its community. The decontamination area on QDU provides equipment services across the Trust. As a Decontamination Technician your role would be to deliver correct handling, cleaning, decontamination and maintenance of all equipment.
The decontamination provision is important to the efficiency of the service and to ensure safe standards are maintained for all patients. Expertise and knowledge of the machinery and process is essential and can be developed on the job.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly motivated team at Bristol Royal Infirmary. The Bristol Royal Infirmary is one site across UHBW and some across site working may be required in this role from time to time.
Main duties of the job
* To support the Decontamination Lead and work in a team with decontamination staff on a daily basis, and undertake tasks within the decontamination area supporting the decontamination team in accordance with UHBW NHS Foundation Trust Policy and Procedures.
* To assess the departments’ workload at regular intervals during the shift and organise the resources accordingly.
* To ensure that daily tests of the departments machinery i.e. washer/disinfectors, is undertaken as per procedure manual.
* To inspect the cleanliness/correctness of equipment/instrumentation together with checking the items for durability.
* To ensure all documentation is completed in a legible, correct and timely manner.
* To ensure that issues raised are recorded and logged on either paper and/or via computer systems.
* To ensure all work is performed in line with up to date guidelines both National and local, including working toward the units JAG accreditation.
* To resolve problems that occurs within the decontamination areas. Maintain contact with end users with regard to production and turnaround times.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description including the main responsibilities and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in Decontamination or comparable environment.
* Experience of working within a team.
Qualifications and Training
* Literacy and numeracy skills.
* GCSE’s at level A-C or equivalent in 3 core subjects.
Skills and Abilities
* Effective communication at all levels.
* Good organisational skills.
* Ability to supervise others.
* Ability to prioritise.
* Ability to communicate clearly to a range of people.
* Good telephone manner.
* Understand and adhere to Data Protection and Trust Policy.
* Dexterity – ability to handle/manoeuvre equipment/instruments across a wide range of sizes, weights and environments.
* Ability to spend long periods of time standing.
* Ability to record/measure data, interpret results and promptly report and manage abnormal results.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
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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.
Name Catherine Philpot Job title Senior Staff Nurse Email address Catherine.philpot@uhbw.nhs.uk Telephone number 01173420075 Additional information
The Endoscopy Unit is open Monday - Friday 07:30 - 20:00.
To further discuss this role, please contact the unit on these days between 10:00 and 17:00. Please ask to seek to a Senior Nurse on duty.
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