PPE / Fit testing assistant

Do you want to support an outstanding organisation and help shape the future of PPE access across MTW Trust?

The PPE and FIT testing Service have been set up as part of the Trusts response to the COVID-19 outbreak and sits within the Infection Prevention & Control Team. The service ensures that personal protective equipment (PPE) and restricted medical devices are provided for staff and services throughout Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The fit testing role is essential and highly valued, as such you will provide full service for all staff around personal protective equipment fit testing, use and maintenance of respiratory equipment to help maintain staff safety. You will be working with other members of the team to establish and maintain an efficient and effective service.

We are looking for exceptional people to join our team. We have a part time band 3 position with a flexible 30 hrs available.

You will work within an existing rolling FIT Testing programme which will support Divisional and Directorate teams to have oversight of the FIT Testing status of their staff.

The role involves excellent organisational skills for administrative duties such as record keeping and database entry in a timely and correct manner to align with statutory mandatory training at the trust.

The role will also include an element of audit of practice to ensure continued embedding of safe use of PPE as well as working with IPT to support with further auditing

The post holder will also need to have excellent customer care to provide a professional, reliable and consistent service. The post includes being able to communicate with staff members at all levels of the organisation in an appropriate and sensitive manner, supporting the Trust code of confidentiality.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check atStandard Level.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics

Interview Date: To be confirmed