Decontamination Technician

Job Category: Manual Labour

Job location: Oriel Drive, Aintree, Liverpool, Merseyside, L10 6NJ,Sefton MBC

Hours per week: 36

Start date: Immediate start

To provide cover for our decontamination area between the hours of 9.00am and 5.00pm  

JOB PURPOSE

To assist in providing an effective equipment loan service to disabled people of all ages including children, this is so they can maintain their health and independence. 

To ensure the safety of clients and staff it is essential that all community equipment service equipment is cleaned correctly. Cleaning helps to maintain the safety and integrity of equipment, reduce the harbourage of micro-organisms and prevent cross-infection. It is important to maintain a safe working environment for all people coming into contact with any contaminated equipment and prevent cross-infection in-patients. 

The post holder will be required to adhere to the infection control guidelines to reduce the risk of cross-infection from contaminated equipment. All CES equipment must be decontaminated on return to the loan store.

The post-holder is required to undertake work in an efficient and effective manner, both as an individual and working within the team to provide a continuously improving service to our customers.

Experience

1. Undertaking risk assessments to ensure safe working environment for self and colleagues.
2. Working as part of a team.
3. Reading and understanding instructions.
4. Working in an infection control environment.
5. Use of powered cleaning equipment (steam cleaner).
6. Fitting & repairing community equipment to service users/patients homes.
7. Working with community equipment.
8. Working in a Social Services/NHS/voluntary environment.