Sterile Services Assistant

We are seeking a Sterile Services Assistant to join our team based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex.

In this role you will be responsible for assisting the Associate Sterile Services Manager and Associate Sterile Services Manager for Production to provide a safe reliable and efficient service. You will be responsible for maintaining a high standard of professional expertise and ensuring a high standard of work in assembling, checking and inspecting instruments. The department has produced over 50 thousand items in the last year.

As a Sterile Services Assistant, you will ensure that instruments used in theatre are reprocessed and returned, clean and sterile.

You will also be responsible for the following:

• Collection and delivery of theatre trays, weighing up to 20kg
• Inspecting the wash area and loading/unloading the washer disinfectors
• Inspecting the instruments for cleanliness and functionality and packing them ready for autoclaving
• Loading and unloading the autoclaves for the sterilisation process

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart– Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence– Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration– Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

An interesting and varied role for someone wanting to get their first steps onto the ever-available climbing ladder

Duties include: -

Preparation of specialised packs.

Cleaning and washing of soiled instruments

Cleaning, inspection and packaging of instruments into theatre trays.

Use of the autoclaves to sterilise Theatre trays, packs and instruments

Delivery and collection of theatre trays and instruments from theatres wards and departments

Maintaining suitable records.

To undertake any other appropriate duties if so required by the Sterile Services Management.

Some bank holiday cover / Weekend on-call will be required and partake in a Saturday rota (maximum 1:3) . To carry out On-Call in accordance with Trust Value and KPI’s