About the Role
This role offers an excellent opportunity to join SSL sterile services as a supervisor in Salisbury. You will supervise a team of Sterile Service personnel, ensuring compliance with current legislation and providing leadership through personal example.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the preparation of instruments and equipment effectively and efficiently by the process of cleaning, inspection, assembly and packing within predefined quality standards.
- Oversee and rigorously check, wash, lay-up and pack sets of theatre instruments and endoscopes to meet contract specifications within predefined quality standards.
- Oversee that repairs and missing instruments or equipment are recorded and logged on the Tracking and Traceability computer system.
- Proactively monitor, evaluate and ensure that operational activities fully comply with required Health and Safety procedures and guidelines.
- Ensure that all designated staff are kept informed and trained on individual and team health and safety procedures in the workplace.
- Participate as an integral member of the sterile processing and endoscopy team and actively contribute to suggestions of innovation, continuous improvement and best practices.
- Monitor and ensure that all production processed by the designated team conforms to Synergy Health Sterilisation Services quality guidelines and ensure complete contamination control.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ensure effective communication between senior management and production teams.
- Participate in the one call management rota service to maintain emergency services to customers.
- Support and participate in 5S, Lean and Kaizen activities.
- Undertake any other duties or tasks as reasonably required.
Requirements
- Team leadership experience.
- Surgical instruments or decontamination 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
Location
- Salisbury
Work Type
- Full-time
- Shift work
Experience Level
- Supervisor
Education Level
- Good general standard education
Benefits
- Full structured and comprehensive training
- Ongoing education leading to industry-recognised qualifications
- Defined career path when fully operational
- A diverse and people-centric culture
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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 strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
