SSD/EDD Training Officer | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - Stevenage - ref. w74146415
We are recruiting for a knowledgeable and enthusiastic SSD/EDD Training Officer who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing and delivering comprehensive training programs to ensure that all sterile services staff are fully equipped with the skill and knowledge needed to maintain highest standards of sterilisation and infection control.Your expertise will help to ensure that our patients receive safe and effective care.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Be responsible for the education and development of all staff including new staff across full departmental shift patterns.
Required to teach and educate decontamination staff to enable achievement of competencies within both sterile services and endoscopy decontamination in accordance with current regulations.
Required to devise and maintain educational strategies to ensure continued professional development of all decontamination staff
To provide collaborative link between all areas with Sterile Services and Endoscopy decontamination and the development of protocols for the recognition and management of the QMS processes
Required to act independently and work unsupervised to manage own workload, referring to the line manager as necessary
Support the SSD Manager with the maintenance of records for the SSD Quality Management System in line with required UK MDR and ISO 13485 accreditation.
At East and North Hertfordshire 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.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 9 Oct 2024