HSDU Technician Band 2
- Main area
- HSDU Technician
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time: 37.5 hours per week Monday – Friday over 4 nights 2 week rota
- Job ref
- 362-A-20-2533332
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Hazel Grove, Stockport
- Salary
- £18,005 – £19,337 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2020 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/08/2020
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘Quality and Safety, Communication, Service’ are at the heart of everything we do and come from our ‘Your Health. Our Priority’ promise. Every day they drive the behaviour and actions for every person in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Coaching Academy
Our coaching academy is a vehicle for developing a coaching culture throughout the Trust to help develop, engage, motivate and care for our staff to deliver better patient care. It will support us to consistently have a “culture of caring” which both our staff and patients will experience.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
Quality and Safety
We deliver safe, high quality and compassionate care.
We ensure a clean and safe environment for better care
Communication
We treat our patients, their families and our staff with dignity and respect.
We communicate with everyone in a clear and open way.
Service
We provide effective, efficient and innovative care.
We work in partnership with others, to deliver improved care, in the right place at the right time.
HSDU & Endoscopy Decontamination AssistantAgenda for Change Band: 2 Hours: 37.5 per weekWith the ever changing workload in the NHS, a post has become available for a HSDU & Endoscopy Decontamination Assistant to work night shifts in the Units. Monday to Friday.We are looking to recruit a Band 2 Sterile Services Technician, to join our friendly and enthusiastic team. Our Sterile Services Department comprises of 2 units; a Sterile Services Unit which deals with decontamination of medical devices- surgical instruments and the Endoscopy Decontamination Unit which re-processes endoscopes.
Candidates for this post must have a good general education and would benefit from a decontamination back ground either from Endoscopy or Sterile Services.
This role involves a shift working pattern between 21.00pm – 7.30am Monday – Thursday & Tuesday – Friday on a 2 week rota basis and some weekend and bank holiday working when required. Once fully trained you would be required to take part on the on call rota. The candidate will be expected to be able to collect instruments & scopes from departments around the trust, manually clean, scopes and instruments before placing into a washer disinfector. They will be required to quality check items, monitor the wash cycle and its load, packing of instruments before autoclaving, delving and storing the scopes and instruments in a timely manner.
Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available as it is unlikely in these circumstances that the UK Border Agency Resident Labour Market Test requirements would be met. For further information on this test please visit the UK Border Agency website.
Following a UK Border Agency announcement on 23rd December 2010, Tier 1 applications made from Overseas will no longer be accepted. Therefore applications for this vacancy requiring this Tier 1 status cannot be processed.
This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Potential applicants are encouraged to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment.
Interviews for this post are to be held on 5th August 2020. Please ensure you are available for interview on this date.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
Applicants are encouraged to read the documents attached to this vacancy before applying, including the job description and person specification and the information for applicants which includes useful information to assist you in completing your application.
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Please note that all correspondence will be via your NHS Jobs account. Unfortunately we are not able to acknowledge each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. Please also note that Stockport NHS Foundation Trust are unable to refund Interview expenses or re-location costs.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "t
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