Team Leader for Decontamination Services

The Decontamination Department is looking to recruit a hard working, enthusiastic, flexible and motivated individual to join James Paget Hospital Decontamination team. The position of team leaders offers successful candidate the opportunity to work within a well-established and friendly team.

Responsibilities

• Extensive Knowledge and Skills: Have extensive knowledge and skills of requirements for the product in line with the ISO 13485:2016 standard.
• Risk Management: Have knowledge of all potential risk to products within a Decontamination Department.
• Quality Management: Support the management team in ensuring staff conform to the departmental Quality Management System, hospital policy and procedures, highlighting immediately any areas of concern.
• Workflow Management: Assess, organise, and plan the daily workflow within the Decontamination and the Endoscopy departments to ensure maximum usage of resources.
• Staff Support: Act as a resource to support the technicians to reduce the Departmental and individuals’ non-conformances and conduct regular one to one meeting with staff and provide feedback to the Deputy Decontamination Manager.
• Deputy Role: Be expected to deputise for the Deputy Decontamination Manager in their absence with the support of the Decontamination Manager.
• Incident Reporting: Be able to root cause and report on incidences relating to product and staff.
• Operational Efficiency: Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the department.
• General Management: General management and supervision of the production team.
• Workload Management: Assess, plan, organise and manage own workload and the workload of others, to ensure maximum utilisation of resources available on a day-to-day basis.
• Staff Supervision: Responsible for the day-to-day supervision and co-ordination of staff within the department.
• Communication: Provide and receive complex information and to facilitate effective communication with both departmental staff and customers.
• Staff Development: Provide appropriate support for technicians and their on-going development through regular reviews of performance and yearly staff appraisals.
• Problem Resolution: Responsibility and authority for resolving day-to-day problems and queries arising from customers and supporting the Deputy Decontamination Manager with more complex complaints investigation. Ensure delegated actions relating to complaints are completed within the specified time frames.
• Deputy Acting: Acting-up for the Deputy Decontamination Manager in their absence, with the support of the Decontamination Manager.
• Communication: Communicate to the production team the departments progress against agreed targets, proposed changes in activity affecting expected production levels, quality issues and general trust news.