Sterile Services Supervisor | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Sterile Services Supervisor

We are recruiting for a Sterile Services Supervisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This role oversees the day-to-day operations of the Sterile Services and Endoscopy Decontamination Department, ensuring the highest standards of decontamination, sterilization, and distribution of surgical instruments, flexible endoscopes and medical devices.

Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

• Supervise daily operations of the Sterile Services Department, ensuring all decontamination and sterilization processes meet HTM 01-01 and HTM 01-06 and Trust guidelines.
• Lead and support the team, providing training, guidance, and performance management to maintain high standards of service.
• Monitor workflow and resource allocation, ensuring timely turnaround of surgical instruments and equipment for clinical areas.
• Conduct quality checks and audits, maintaining accurate records and reporting any non-conformances or incidents promptly.
• Ensure compliance with infection prevention and control policies, health and safety regulations, and relevant legislation.
• Collaborate with clinical teams, responding to urgent requests and resolving issues to support patient care.
• Manage stock levels and equipment maintenance, liaising with suppliers and engineering teams as required.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

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