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Sterile Services Assistant
The closing date is 23 October 2025
***Please note we do not offer Certificates of Sponsorships for this role ***
The HSDU (Sterile Services) department is an enthusiastic team who work in a busy fast paced department. The Sterile Services Department reprocesses surgical instruments for the Trust and surrounding areas. The department works from 6am to 10pm Monday to Friday. Recently two new operating theatres have opened within the Alexandra Hospital to tackle the waiting list backlog following the Covid pandemic. This has created more Sterile Services Assistant job opportunities within the HSDU department. The shift available is 6am to 2pm Monday to Friday. The department offers a six month on the job training programme. The department is looking to offer an NVQ qualification in the future. Opportunities do arise within the department to progress to a Supervisor and potentially a future manager.
Annual leave entitlement starts at 27 days + Bank Holidays
29 days + Bank Holidays (5 years)
33 days + Bank Holidays (10 years)
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role are the collection of used surgical instruments, preparing the instruments for the washer disinfector, reassembly of the surgical instrument trays, closely inspecting for cleanliness and damage, wrapping of the surgical instruments, and the sterilisation and delivery of the reprocessed surgical instruments.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.
Our workforce is nearly 6,800 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
* Best services for local people
* Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
* Best use of resources
* Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
To undertake general duties within the Sterile Services Department including cleaning, inspecting, testing, assembling, checking, packing and sterilising of theatre instruments, ward instruments and operating theatre instrument trays. To collect and deliver items to Wards, Departments and Theatres.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised qualification in Sterile Services IDSC, NVQ or similar
Experience
* Previous work in Sterile Services or clean room manufacturing department/hospital setting
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
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