Decontamination Coordinator

Job summary

Salford Community Equipment Service provides equipment to the population of Salford. This equipment enables people to live a more independent life within their own home environment. The provision of equipment can make a huge difference to the quality of a persons independence and is a well regarded service.

We have a team of Support Workers and Technicians and are looking to recruit a Decontamination Coordinator to our friendly team.

Salford Equipment Service is part of Independent Living Services working alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to provide equipment for people within their own homes.

Equipment and Wheelchair Support Workers and Equipment Maintenance Technicians deliver and install equipment and when it is no longer needed the equipment will be returned.

Decontamination Assistants are a recent addition within this service to ensure that we clean our equipment to a high standard, service the equipment and return it ready to be re-issued in a timely manner. The role of Decontamination Assistant compliments our other team members and complete our team to ensure our service standards remain high

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for ensuring that equipment returned to our Equipment store will be decontaminated, tested and returned to our shelves ready for reissuing.

The range of equipment is wide covering walking aids, profiling beds, pressure care, sensory and Telecare equipment.

Decontamination Coordinator need to be physically capable of lifting equipment into an industrial washer or into a bagging machine.

The main responsibilities of the role will be ensuring the equipment follows a set decontamination process. Servicing and testing equipment and returning it to stock ready for reissue.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk