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Job summary

Main area
Theatres
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (None)
Job ref
361-7352293
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/08/2025 23:59

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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

Sterile Services Coordinator - Theatres

NHS AfC: Band 3

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

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

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to coordinate all sterile surgical instruments used daily within the Main Theatre Department.

This role involves the use of computer applications, for tracking and tracing of surgical instruments. 

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will take part in the collection of dispatched surgical instrument trays from the HSSD.

You will work closely with the surgical speciality leads, predominantly Trauma and Orthopaedics, and company representatives, to ensure all required instrumentation is ready and available to use for the daily demands.

The post holder will also be tracking and tracing where used surgical instruments are within the system.

Working for our organisation

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. 

We run the following hospitals: 

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage 

New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City 

Hertford County, Hertford 

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood 

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. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Basic General Education – English & Maths

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous employment within the NHS or private sector within HSSD /surgery

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Computer Literacy
  • Good interpersonal skills – Communication, written and verbal Telephone communication with a diverse range of people
  • Able to work independently
  • Able to organise /prioritise workload and meet deadlines Flexible and adaptable
  • Confidentiality

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate an understanding and importance of adherence to policy and guidelines.
  • Provide practical instruction/guidance Surgical instruments

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lindsey Stewart
Job title
Theatre Speciality Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438288004
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