King's Mill Hospital is seeking motivated and detail-focused individuals to join our Sterile Services Department. This essential service ensures the safe reprocessing, sterilisation and supply of surgical instruments and equipment to wards, theatres, outpatient clinics and partner organisations across the Trust and wider community. You will play a vital part in maintaining patient safety by ensuring all instrumentation is cleaned, assembled, sterilised and dispatched to the highest standards.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver a high-quality reprocessing and sterilisation service for instrument procedure packs and equipment used across the Trust and partner organisations.
* Support the provision of safe, sterile surgical instrumentation—whether produced in-house or purchased—used by Operating Theatres, Wards, Outpatient Clinics, Radiology, Emergency Departments, Community Nursing and Midwifery Services, as well as external healthcare providers.
* Operate and carry out daily testing of all disinfection, processing and sterilisation equipment in line with Standard Operating Procedures.
Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
With multiple vacancies available, this is an excellent opportunity to join a dedicated Sterile Services team at King's Mill Hospital and contribute to a service that underpins clinical care across the Trust and beyond. Apply now and become part of a team that makes a real difference every day. To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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