HSDU Assistant Technician

Job summary

Working Full time - 37.5 hours per week

An Assistant Technician vacancy has arisen for an individual to become part of the HSDU Team. The successful individual will become proficient, through training, in providing Quality Sterilised goods and services to both Internal and External Customers.

Main duties of the job

The successful individual will become proficient, through training, in providing Quality Sterilised goods and services to both Internal and External Customers.

• To prepare goods and services for customers utilising all areas in department
• To assist with distribution of sterile and clean supplies to theatre, wards and other departments
• To undertake operation of equipment e.g. Washer disinfectors and sterilisers
• Be receptive to training and development
• To assist with stores handling and stock control
• Give support to senior departmental staff
• To contribute to an effective, motivated and competent workforce and comply with high quality standards
• To comply with current systems for recording, collation, monitoring and feedback of appropriate information
• To monitor and control Production within HSDU, ensuring that all priority requests and contractual turnaround times are adhered to.
• To ensure that both the Trust & Departmental Values and Behaviours are adhered to at all times by all members of staff within the HSDU Department.
• Previous experience of working within a Sterile Services Department is desirable but not essential as full training will be given

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 4117,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.