Job title
CSSD Manager
Location
Cross-site working: London Bridge Hospital (Tooley Street) and The Lister Hospital
Job type
Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Shift pattern
Shift times: Monday - Friday, some evening and weekend work required to cover our 24-hour service at London Bridge.
Contract
Permanent
Salary
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits (pension, health cover, flexible benefits package plus career development)
We’re looking for an experienced CSSD Manager to lead our decontamination and sterilisation services across London Bridge Hospital and The Lister Hospital. This is an exciting cross-site role where you’ll play a vital part in ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality sterile services that support surgical excellence.
As a CSSD Manager you’ll be both professional and friendly – someone who’s completely focused on patient-care, with a can-do attitude.
At HCA UK we care about what you care about. We care that you want to deliver the very best care. We care that you want a career you can be proud of. We care that you want working conditions that support your health and wellbeing. Let us care for you and your career, the same way you do for others.
What you’ll do
* Lead and manage our CSSD teams across both hospitals, ensuring the delivery of a consistent, high-quality service.
* Oversee daily decontamination and sterilisation operations, ensuring compliance with infection control standards.
* Collaborate closely with theatre managers, external auditors, outpatient colleagues, surgeons, and wider clinical teams to support patient care.
* Manage staffing, complex equipment and resources efficiently across both sites.
* Drive continuous improvement in service quality, efficiency, and patient safety.
* Develop and deliver training programmes to upskill and support CSSD staff.
* Champion compliance, safety, and best practice across all sterile services functions.
What you’ll bring
* Proven experience in a senior CSSD role, ideally within an acute hospital environment.
* In-depth understanding of decontamination processes, instrumentation, and national regulatory requirements.
* Strong leadership skills with a track record of managing and developing teams.
* Excellent organisational and problem-solving abilities, with confidence managing resources across multiple sites.
* A collaborative approach, with the ability to build strong relationships with surgical and clinical teams.
* Commitment to patient safety, infection prevention, and delivering exceptional standards of care.
Why HCA UK?
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.
By caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a CSSD Manager, you’ll be eligible for:
* 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
* Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
* Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
* Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
* Group Life Assurance from day one
* Critical illness cover
* Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
* Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
* Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
* Discounts with over 800 major retailers
Culture and values
At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.
Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:
* Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
* Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
* Honesty, integrity and fairness: We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
* Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity
Reasonable adjustments
We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.
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