Senior Decontamination Technician

Job summary

A full time, permanent band 3 Senior Decontamination Technician post has arisen to join the dynamic, highly engaged decontamination unit at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The role requires the individual to manually clean contaminated endoscopes, re-process scopes using an endoscopy washer disinfector (EWD) machine, store them in fully automated drying cabinets and obtain weekly water samples for testing. The decontamination unit provides a centralised service for all areas in the Trust which uses flexible endoscopes - including in and out-patient endoscopy, theatres, ITU, urology and ENT. It may also require the individual to work a 4-day roster with a specific day-off, which may include weekends.

Previous experience in endoscopy decontamination is desirable. If without endoscopy/decontamination experience, the successful candidate will initially be offered a Band 2 post. The candidate will go for basic in-house trainings provided by our decontamination supervisors, on-site Wassenburg training for our weekly water testing and a City and Guilds-accredited training on Endoscope Care - all to be done within 6 months, then will be upgraded to a Band 3 post.

**PLEASE NOTE: Due to the volume of applicants received we may close this vacancy early**

Main duties of the job

The department provides safe equipment for use in patient care consistent with national and European standards and guidelines related to the decontamination of flexible endoscopes. Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Every day.'

We are a duly accredited institution by the Joint Advisory Group (JAG) on GI Endoscopy.

Please refer to the Job description and person specification for full duties of the role.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Jerry Rivera/Majid Nobles/Hazel Alcubilla

Unit Nurse Manager (job share)

via email - jerry.rivera@nhs.net; m.nobles@nhs.net; hazel.alcubilla@nhs.net

About us

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

-Caring- Design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.-Safe- Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first-Responsible- All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation-Value Each Other- Value each other's contribution-Inspiring- We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Galsworthy Road

Kingston Upon Thames

KT2 7QB

Employer's website

https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Galsworthy Road

Kingston Upon Thames

KT2 7QB

Employer's website

https://kingstonhospital.nhs.uk/work-for-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

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