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Accurately exchange information with colleagues and customers to enable: prioritisation of work and prevention/resolution of problems.
• Deal courteously and professionally with colleagues to foster good team working relationships.
• Provide routine data as required by departmental supervisors.
• Understand a range of work procedures which require on job training.
• Maintain and update knowledge of instruments across all specialities.
• Understand and maintain knowledge of decontamination procedures including safe operation of automated machinery.
• Maintain educational standards by attending departmental lectures and hospital courses regularly to meet the requirements of Health & safety.
• Organising own day to day work tasks or activities ensuring recommended best practice is adhered to at all times.
• Making judgements involving straightforward job related facts or situations. Identifying routine problems which may prevent adherence to
decontamination/quality standards.
• Specific hand/eye co-ordination required to gain the speed and accuracy in checking, packing and assembling surgical equipment to the required
quality standards.
• Achieving the department production targets carried out within recommended best practice and mandatory standards.
• Provide basic clinical technical services following strict decontamination guidelines for cleaning, sterilisation and packing of surgical equipment.
• Follow departmental documented policies and procedures at all times.
• Daily maintenance of theatre instruments, dismantling and re-assembling of surgical instruments and checking optics following the relevant work
instructions and comprehensive instrument checklists, identifying any missing components which are reported accordingly.
• Maintain stock within all production areas, re-order as required and control stock rotation.
• Demonstrate work activities to untrained staff when qualified.
• Responsible for data entry onto computer, to maintain records of instrumentation within the department (tracking and tracing).
• Complete own time sheets and other work records as required.
• Undertakes surveys and audits (i.e. cleanliness and work required) where necessary within own work and written guidelines.
• Test decontamination equipment according to relevant HTMs on a daily bases.
• Work within well established procedures following guidelines for good practice with supervision available for reference.
• There is a requirement to stand while carrying out duties in all production areas; with a frequent requirement to exert moderate physical effort
whilst unloading and loading trolleys into the washer disinfectors and sterilisers.
• Concentration is required at specific times during the decontamination process to produce correctly laid-up and packaged surgical instruments.
homeworking?
Overtime has been used to back fill this vacancy. This is no longer a
viable financial option.
Is this a retire and return role? If yes, how are you covering
any reduction in hours? What are you doing with the
remaining hours from any reduction? Is the role currently
covered by bank or agency? Is so, what band, hourly rate
and what is the length of cover?
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If new post, please provide the following: - Reason for new
post creation - Breakdown of changes and funding for the
creation of the post e.g. Joe Bloggs (ESR No), reduced hours
from 23 to 15 against cost centre 12345 and Julia Bloggs
(ESR No) reduced band from 4 to 3 against cost centre
54321. *If this is not fully completed with evidence that
matches the budget required for this new role, this will not
be approved*
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• Frequent exposure to body fluids and care is required when dealing with contaminated sets due to the presence of sharp instruments when
working in the decontamination wash area.
• The duties and responsibilities of the post will be undertaken in accordance with the policies, procedures and practice of Oxford Radcliffe
Hospitals NHS Trust and which the Trust may amend from time to time.
• The duties outlined above are not intended as a restrictive list, and may be extended or altered to include other tasks that are commensurate
with the grade