Job summary
Join our dynamic Decontamination team, where commitment to excellence shines!
Part time hours: 15 per week, between Monday and Friday
We're a large, friendly team devoted to upholding high standards in decontamination services. Your role involves operational management of the service delivery under the guidance of the Decontamination Manager. Work closely with operating theatres managers and clinical leads, supporting the Trust in providing crucial surgical care.
Our ISO13485 accreditation reflects our dedication to quality, with a continuous drive for improvement. Without proper reprocessing, patients wouldn't receive essential surgeries and outpatient procedures.
Be a crucial part of the team that makes it possible!
Who are we looking for?
Applicants with a solid education, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a team. Managerial experience in Decontamination Services is a must. Direct interaction with colleagues and visitors requires excellent spoken English, communication, and customer care skills. If you're adaptable, flexible, and can showcase teamwork and initiative, we want you!
Join us in making a difference in surgical care. Apply now!
Main duties of the job
Dimensions:
- Lead asset and inventory management between Theatres/ clinical departments, Decontamination Services and supply/purchase teams of re-useable surgical instruments.
- Ensure that the inventory of surgical instruments is proactively reviewed and managed in accordance with clinical requirements and industry best practice and ensure that the inventory of sets and equipment is accurately reflected in the track and trace system.
- To operate as a key member of the Decontamination Services team, successfully managing the performance of contracts for goods (including surgical instruments) and services with a range of external service providers.
- The role involves building positive working relationships between the Decontamination Services team and internal/ external customers and service suppliers to ensure all parties meet their obligations in order to deliver the objectives required from the contract/ SLA.
Key Relationships:
Liaise with Theatres/ clinical departments' staff, Decontamination staff, Procurement, Finance,
Medical Physics, Risk Governance, Infection Prevention and Control staff, Clinical and Senior
Management in other departments/divisions.
About us
Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.
CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough's only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.
Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.
Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after for people of all ages across Croydon and our Children's Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will manage contracts proactively and highlight anticipated future changes, you will also need to respond quickly to contractor performance issues and escalate where necessary.
- Assist in investigations associated with any incidents including serious incidents involving surgical instruments or other decontamination related incidents.
- Ensure that Theatres/ clinical departments and Decontamination Services staff are educated in the correct handling of surgical instruments.
- Assist with post-market surveillance be they related to Theatres/ clinical departments or Decontamination Services, and be able to articulate issues to users and suppliers succinctly using appropriate technical terms towards resolutions and implement process improvements.
- Communicate with all grades of Theatres/ clinical departments staff, outpatients and SSD personnel, and to advise them of the current decontamination standards.
- Communicate complex information between clinicians and equipment suppliers, sometimes acting as a conduit between organisations.
- Provide feedback to multi-disciplinary staff including senior managers and clinicians.
- Share information and ideas with Theatres/ clinical departments and Decontamination Services in order to explore fully alternative products and approaches to purchasing.
- Display good negotiating skills and detail accurately the Trust requirements to buyers and others from the Procurement department who may undertake negotiations on our behalf.
- Persuasion skills are required in order to engage clinical stakeholders in undertaking trials of alternative products.
- Write reports to be accurately and concisely presented to senior staff, including Consultant Medical Staff and Executives, the financial and other potential consequences of using or changing particular products.
- IT based communication to be shared across departments and care groups including trend analyses, instrument tracking and usage data etc.
- Attend and support meetings with users.
- Regular meetings with SSD Manager regarding standards, quality, performance etc.
- Collate/ present data for discussion to stakeholders including clinicians and Decontamination Services staff.
- To conduct literature searches and assess relevance of scientific papers in order to ensure awareness of latest guidance and practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- The post holder will manage contracts proactively and highlight anticipated future changes, you will also need to respond quickly to contractor performance issues and escalate where necessary.
- Assist in investigations associated with any incidents including serious incidents involving surgical instruments or other decontamination related incidents.
- Ensure that Theatres/ clinical departments and Decontamination Services staff are educated in the correct handling of surgical instruments.
- Assist with post-market surveillance be they related to Theatres/ clinical departments or Decontamination Services, and be able to articulate issues to users and suppliers succinctly using appropriate technical terms towards resolutions and implement process improvements.
- Communicate with all grades of Theatres/ clinical departments staff, outpatients and SSD personnel, and to advise them of the current decontamination standards.
- Communicate complex information between clinicians and equipment suppliers, sometimes acting as a conduit between organisations.
- Provide feedback to multi-disciplinary staff including senior managers and clinicians.
- Share information and ideas with Theatres/ clinical departments and Decontamination Services in order to explore fully alternative products and approaches to purchasing.
- Display good negotiating skills and detail accurately the Trust requirements to buyers and others from the Procurement department who may undertake negotiations on our behalf.
- Persuasion skills are required in order to engage clinical stakeholders in undertaking trials of alternative products.
- Write reports to be accurately and concisely presented to senior staff, including Consultant Medical Staff and Executives, the financial and other potential consequences of using or changing particular products.
- IT based communication to be shared across departments and care groups including trend analyses, instrument tracking and usage data etc.
- Attend and support meetings with users.
- Regular meetings with SSD Manager regarding standards, quality, performance etc.
- Collate/ present data for discussion to stakeholders including clinicians and Decontamination Services staff.
- To conduct literature searches and assess relevance of scientific papers in order to ensure awareness of latest guidance and practice.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Degree / Post-graduate qualification or equivalent level of knowledge and experience through decontamination training/ experience.
Desirable
- IDSc Technical Certificate NVQ IV Management course NVQ3 in decontamination
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of surgical instrumentation and decontamination.
- Current knowledge of legislation, standards, guidance and practices related to decontamination of medical devices.
- Understand the concept and management of urgent/ priority medical devices
- Understand the concept and management of urgent/ priority medical devices
Desirable
- Understanding of ISO 13485 systems
- Ability to undertake, investigate and report on non-conformances and understand when limit of capability has been reached
- Ability to train in decontamination systems
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience and proven knowledge of the characteristics of surgical instruments and endoscopes and of the necessary decontamination processes.
- Familiarity with surgical procedures
- Experience of working at a management level, contract negotiation and managing stakeholder/ supplier relationships.
- Demonstrable experience of attaining highest quality within budgetary constraints.
Desirable
- Substantial experience working at a supervisor level.
- Demonstrable experience of training staff
- Demonstrable experience of working with a process driven environment.
Person Specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Degree / Post-graduate qualification or equivalent level of knowledge and experience through decontamination training/ experience.
Desirable
- IDSc Technical Certificate NVQ IV Management course NVQ3 in decontamination
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of surgical instrumentation and decontamination.
- Current knowledge of legislation, standards, guidance and practices related to decontamination of medical devices.
- Understand the concept and management of urgent/ priority medical devices
- Understand the concept and management of urgent/ priority medical devices
Desirable
- Understanding of ISO 13485 systems
- Ability to undertake, investigate and report on non-conformances and understand when limit of capability has been reached
- Ability to train in decontamination systems
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience and proven knowledge of the characteristics of surgical instruments and endoscopes and of the necessary decontamination processes.
- Familiarity with surgical procedures
- Experience of working at a management level, contract negotiation and managing stakeholder/ supplier relationships.
- Demonstrable experience of attaining highest quality within budgetary constraints.
Desirable
- Substantial experience working at a supervisor level.
- Demonstrable experience of training staff
- Demonstrable experience of working with a process driven environment.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
