Decontamination Laundry Supervisor | East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Leading and mentoring our Decontamination Technician team - including day to day management in all duties performed,ensuring team objectives are met, creating rota's and supporting with urgent requirements. Assisting the Management Team in the training/development of staff to ensure departmental standard operating procedures are adhered to, allowing staff to conduct their duties within the scope of the Quality Management System BS EN ISO9001, ISO13485 and JAG. Form part of the Quality Control team and assist in general auditing duties and perform a full range of decontamination duties. You will need to be able to work fluently with Microsoft Word and Excel packages to perform duties using electronic spreadsheets and data bases. The successful candidate will also be responsible for the daily testing and logging of equipment. A Decontamination Supervisor can work within the Hospital Sterilisation Disinfection Unit, Endoscopy Scope Decontamination and the Laundry Services Department across Burnley General and Royal Blackburn teaching Hospitals.

Come and join an already established team of supervisors within the Decontamination Hub. If you are a person with a positive "Can do" attitude who wants to make a difference in their workplace then this is the role for you! This is an exciting and engaging opportunity for the candidate to grow on the job. We are looking for someone thoughtful who has enthusiasm for managing and supporting the team in a Sterile Services/Laundry environment, and for someone who is looking to thrive in a role that requires genuine autonomy and the chance to work as part of a continually changing environment. The Decontamination services are used by the Trusts many wards, departments, theatres and also external health care providers and are supplied with clean laundry and linen, sterile surgical instruments, scopes and soft packs for safe patient use.,

• Experience of working within a similar role would be advantageous with proven people management experience
• Understanding of ISO13485 or a willingness to learn this
• Must be accurate and have a strong desire for attention to detail
• Please note, although this role is being advertised by East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, it will transfer to OneLSC a Corporate Collaboration hosted by East Lancashire Hospitals Trust on 1.11.24. There are no plans to change the location of the role.