AFC Supervisor

HOW YOU WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

About you

Do you want to spend your working time making a difference in the world around you? Are you passionate about helping our incredible national health service make a difference? Do you care about keeping vulnerable patients safe? If so, then a career with SSL in Salisbury could be a great fit for you.

There is an excellent opportunity to join SSL sterile services as a supervisor. Training and Development are offered to get you on to a defined pathway.

Job Purpose

• To Supervise a team of Sterile Service and Endoscopy personnel on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that Sterile Service and endoscopy provision complies with current legislation.
• To provide leadership through personal example, promoting sound departmental communication and fostering good interpersonal relationships.

Working Pattern

• Monday - Friday, 0700 - 1500
• 37.5 hrs per week

What is involved?

• To oversee the preparation of instruments and equipment effectively and efficiently by the process of cleaning, inspection, assembly and packing within predefined quality standards.
• To oversee and rigorously check, wash, lay-up and pack sets of theatre instruments and endoscopes to meet contract specifications within predefined quality standards.
• To oversee that repairs and missing instruments or equipment are recorded and logged on the Tracking and Traceability computer system.
• To proactively monitor, evaluate and ensure that operational activities fully comply with required Health and Safety procedures and guidelines.
• To ensure that all designated staff are kept informed and trained on individual and team health and safety procedures in the workplace.
• To participate as an integral member of the sterile processing and endoscopy team and actively contribute to suggestions of innovation, continuous improvement and best practices.
• To monitor and ensure that all production processed by the designated team conforms to Synergy Health Sterilisation Services quality guidelines and ensure complete contamination control.
• To actively assist and support the Production Manager in the planning and operational process.
• Monitor absence levels, maintain accurate records and liaise with team members in the management of absence.
• To coach, support, and guide team members in line with the principles of Performance Management, setting and reviewing goals, acting as a mentor to the team and identifying training and development needs.
• To ensure effective communication between senior management and production teams.
• To participate in the one call management rota service to maintain emergency services to customers.
• To support and participate in 5S, Lean and Kaizen activities
• To undertake any other duties or tasks as reasonably required.

What's in it for you?

• An annual salary between £28,392 and generous shift allowances if you work overtime/unsociable hours!
• Full structured and comprehensive training.
• Ongoing education leading to industry-recognised qualifications.
• Defined career path when fully operational.
• A diverse and people-centric culture.
• AFC (Agenda for Change) pay structure.
• Starting at 27 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and 33 days after 10 years’ service.

Whether you have no experience whatsoever, or you have previously worked in the healthcare industry we want to hear from you! We are a committed equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We cannot wait to meet you!

Required Experience

• Educated to a good general standard with demonstrable verbal and numerical abilities.
• Basic end user IT skills to operate track and traceability IT system.

Skills

• Flexibility
• Teamwork
• Integrity
• Working under pressure
• Accountability
• Attention to detail

For more information about us, please visit our STERIS Instrument Processing (IP) website: https://www.steris-ims.co.uk/

STERIS plc provides employment and advancement opportunities without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion/belief, sex (gender), sexual orientation or any other legally protected characteristic as defined by UK employment law. The Company bases all employment decisions on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities with the intention that the best candidate is selected for each position.

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit www.steris.com.

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.