Endoscopy Decontamination Technician

Job summary

To work in a collaborative and supportive environment with members of the multidisciplinary team. To carry out care and treatment tasks, delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, numeracy and literacy skills as well as a significant level of interpersonal skills and manual dexterity.

Main duties of the job

How would you like to come and work in a dynamic and forward thinking Endoscopy Decontamination Unit St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?

We are looking for Band 3 Endoscopy Decontamination Technicians, with or without experience, to come and join our team. Training and full induction will be provided.

You will work with the friendly multidisciplinary team in a unit which provides patient centred care for patients undergoing gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, EMR, Spyglass, ERCP and Bronchoscopy procedures.

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic person to work in the role of an Endoscopy Decontamination Technician. You will be responsible for reprocessing instruments and providing high quality support to the registered nurses, multidisciplinary team and patients.You should have either a previous health care assistant experience or level III NVQ in Care or show a willingness to learn. You will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills with a strong sense of initiative and the ability to prioritise a workload in the face of competing demands. You will be a strong team player, self motivated and able to keep a level head in a demanding and constantly changing environment

About us

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.