Job summary
- Main area
- Endoscopy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 326-6220123-AT
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Production Manager Endoscopy
NHS AfC: Band 6
We want to give you the best possible experience in the next stage of your career.
We always strive to be the best place to work and to be cared for.
- We’ve been named the 2021 Acute NHS Trust of the Year, in the annual Health Service (HSJ) Journal Awards for our clear ambition and vision and a significant improvement journey over a number of years’.
- The Trust is 6th highest rated Trust in the South East and was still in the top 25% nationally for recommended places to work.
- We’re rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission and when asked whether the care of patients is the organisation’s top priority our staff rank us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts.
- We pride ourselves on supporting you to thrive in your existing role and to develop your career with us. So with us you’ll get loads of benefits, great training and development opportunities, flexibility and a real community feel.
Benefits to working with us
- Great training and education, including preceptorship and CPD (up to £1,000 individual CPD funding available for nurses, midwives and AHPs)
- Our location: you can access beautiful countryside, historic towns and villages and bustling city life all nearby. With good schools, nature reserves and cultural attractions on our doorstep, and both London and Brighton easily accessible too, there’s something for everyone nearby.
- At least 35 days leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
- NHS pension scheme
- A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.
- On-site nursery
- On-site Boots and WHSmith shops
- An Amazon locker and an InPost locker on site
- Restaurant facilities
- Full educational library services
- Excellent rail and bus links
- The local bus operator offer all new staff one month’s free travel to East Surrey Hospital when they first join (please visit the Metrobus website for details and terms and conditions)
- Lockable storage for cycles.
About us
- We’re a major local employer, with a diverse workforce of c5,000 providing healthcare services to a growing population of around 535,000.
- We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill.
- We offer a full range of acute and complex services at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where we are the nearest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport.
- We provide a range of outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services at The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey, and at Crawley and Horsham Hospitals in West Sussex.
The Trust is committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of benefits including, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff well being.
Job overview
We are looking for an individual to be responsible for the management of the Endoscopy Decontamination Service but will also support the Hospital Sterilisation and Disinfection Unit (HSDU) based at ESH. This person will report to the Decontamination and Sterile Services General Manager and will support the Production Manager HSDU, Supervisors, Senior Technicians – Technicians and drivers, assist in the delivery of the training, strengthen the organization and improve customer care.
To manage the day to day running of the Endoscopy department and to support the Production Manager HSDU, Supervisors, Senior Technicians – Technicians and drivers, assist in the delivery of the training, strengthen the organization and improve customer care.
Main duties of the job
This will be an opportunity for you to be exposed to the responsibilities of a Production Manager and will require strong leadership skills. A Management qualification is essential and ideally you should hold Chartered membership of the Institute of Decontamination Sciences or be working towards it.
The Units provides sterile services and decontamination of flexible endoscopes from East Surrey Hospital. You will have had at least 3 years managerial and technical experience within this field or very closely associated industry. Experience in maintaining a Quality Systems and ensuring compliance with it.
The successful applicant will have direct contact with health professionals and visitors, so a good standard of written and spoken English, communication and customer care skills are essential.
Applicants should have an adaptable, flexible approach to work and be able to demonstrate they can work very well within a team as well as being able to use their own initiative.
The senior Management team work a 1 in 3 weeks on call to support the team 24/7 across the decontamination service.
We are open to exploring individual’s undertaking as a training and development progression opportunity, where by the successful candidate will be remunerated at a Band 5 and undertake agreed competencies for 12 to 18 months to achieve Band 6 status.
For further information please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
- We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.
Person specification
Criteria
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nigel Martin
- Job title
- Trust Decontamination & Sterile Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737 768511
- Additional information
Ext 1621
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