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Job reference: 001618
Salary: Band 5 (£24,670 - £30,742)
Job closing date: 24/07/2019
Job Type: Administrative Services
Location: Various
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Job posted date: 20/06/2019
Employer (NHS Board): NHS National Services Scotland
Department: Procurement Commissioning & Facilities

Job Advert

NB: Successful candidates would be home based.

The national decontamination agenda currently addresses a significant aspect of the public health agenda in relation to the control and prevention of Healthcare Associated Infection and iatrogenic transmission of vCJD.

Health Facilities Scotland (HFS) is a division of NHS National Services Scotland and provides operational guidance to NHS Scotland bodies on a range of healthcare facilities topics. We deliver and co-ordinate effective advice and support in relation to national facilities, decontamination and equipping and technical matters which support and improve health and well-being services. 

The Decontamination Team within HFS undertakes projects on behalf of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorate. The aim of these projects is to improve the decontamination of medical devices undertaken within central, endoscope and local decontamination units throughout NHS Scotland and the independent sector.

We are looking for a qualified and experienced Validation Engineer to join our existing team of home-based engineers, who carry out commissioning and annual testing of the full range of decontamination equipment (sterilizers, surgical instrument washer-disinfectors and endoscope washer-disinfectors) to ensure compliance with laid down standards and national guidance. The postholder’s role is to carry out an ongoing programme of annual testing on equipment within Local Decontamination Units (LDUs) and to produce detailed technical reports on the findings.

The postholder must have recent and appropriate experience in performing quarterly or annual testing/validation on steam sterilizer and instrument washer-disinfector equipment, preferably within a healthcare environment (CDU or LDU).

In addition, the postholder must be qualified to a minimum of HNC level or equiviliant in an appropriate engineering/microbiology/decontamination subject and must possess BTEC Test Person certificates for carrying out annual testing on steam sterilizers and instrument washer-disinfectors.

The postholder will have excellent interpersonal, numeric, time-management and organisational skills and should be experienced in producing technical reports on the performance of decontamination equipment and presenting the findings to a wide range of stakeholders.

Any candidate who have lived/worked overseas for more than 12 months in the preceding 5 years will also be required to provide a criminal record check from the appropriate overseas agency.

 

 Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.

For an informal discussion about this post, please telephone Norman McLean, Validation Manager, Health Facilities Scotland on 0131 275 6562.

Further information on NSS is available from: www.nhsnss.org

Closing date for completed applications is Wednesday 24th July 2019.

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