Decontamination Service Technician

Be partof the team that keeps patients safe every single day!

Are youmotivated, detail driven, and passionate about supporting excellent patient care behind the scenes? Join us at Benenden Hospital as a Decontamination Technician, where your work directly contributes to patient safety and first classclinical outcomes.

This isyour opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring our reusable medical devicesare processed to the highest standards because in this role, everyinstrument you handle helps a patient on their journey to better health.

Why This Role Matters

Behindevery procedure, every surgery, and every moment of patient recovery, your workensures safety, reliability, and confidence. If you take pride in precision,teamwork and doing things right, youll thrive here.

What You will Do

As a key member of our Decontamination team, you will:

• Work collaboratively to deliver a controlled, high quality decontamination service for reusable medical devices
• Ensure excellent standards throughout all stages of the decontamination process, supporting outstanding patient care
• Accurately record information to maintain a full trackandtrace system, ensuring safety and compliance
• Prioritise workload effectively with your team and internal clinical departments
• Follow our Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System to ensure safe, consistent, and compliant operations

At Benenden Hospital we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We attract kind, compassionate, and talented people to ourultra-modernprivate hospital, which opened in 1907 and has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC.We hold JAG accreditation for Endoscopy and have abeautiful setting in the middle of the Kent countryside.

Benenden Hospital offers excellent working conditions and facilities. We promote flexible working and a healthy work/life balance.

We are committed to professional development and have excellent training and education facilities. We work hard to make sure that everyone at Benenden Hospital feels involved and shares our values and vision for thefuture.

Purpose:To support clinical activity and excellence in patient safety by providing a controlled Decontamination Service for reusable medical

The post holder will:

Work aspart of a team providing a controlled decontamination service, reprocessingreusable medical devices for Benenden

Hospital

Contributing to the clinical care of the patient by achieving standards of excellencethroughout all processes of decontamination

Accuraterecording of information to ensure a full track and traceability system.

Work with the team and internal customers to prioritise workload

Work in accordance with the departments Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System

Key Result Areas

To reprocessreusable surgical instruments and flexible endoscopes including receipt,disassembly, manual cleaning, automated wash-disinfection, inspection,functionality testing, assembly, packing, sterilization and despatch

To operatedecontamination equipment safely and carry out routine daily tests as set outin the DS Planned Preventative Maintenance and periodic testing schedule

Use of electronic tracking and traceability system

To plan and prioritise workload with consideration to the DS team and the needs of the internal customer and patients

Thereporting of resource issues to Deputy DS Manager or DS Manager

Accurate and timely reporting of breakdowns

• Knowledge and experience in the decontamination of reusable medical devices
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• NVQ level 3/Technical Certificate Decontamination or equivalent level and knowledge and experience through decontamination training or willingness to undertake
• Working in a timely manner while achieving high levels of accuracy
• Be flexible and adaptable to meet the changing needs

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.