An opportunity has arisen to join The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Production Manager based at their decontamination facility in Enfield,Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:00.

Flexibility is a must for this role as there may be times when your hours will need to be adjusted to meet the needs of our customer . You will receive an enhancement of pay for working weekends/unsociable hours when required.

The role is to focus primarily on the delivery of production performance and continuous improvement relating to decontamination services delivered for the Great Ormond Street Hospital contract.

This Production Manager role will proactively manage the production of a team of technicians, team leaders and supervisors ensure safe and efficient delivery of the services ensuring that key performance indicators associated with the customer contract are met.

The Production Manager will play a key role in regular customer communication and engagement through various remote, virtual and face to face meetings. Whilst based at the decontamination facility in Enfield, this role can involve offsite meetings at the customer locations.

Overall, the unit facilitates the centralisation of all sterilisation and decontamination services for our trust, NHS and Private Hospitals. The unit has the capacity to process over 14 million surgical instruments and 140,000 flexible endoscopes a year.

Main duties of the job

Focus primarily on delivery of production performance and to drive continuous improvement initiatives across all areas of the sterile services operation specifically relating to the Great Ormond Street Hospital contract.

Manage the production of the department and to be responsible for all production, quality, and management of the sterile services team.

Ensure that items are processed in a timely manner to meet the requirements of customers and fulfill the requirements of the regulations, guidelines, and quality as specified in the Decontamination Services Quality Management System.

To be part of the senior management team, providing input and cover for other members of the team as and when required.

For further details refer to the job description.

About us

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A& E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details please see the job description and person specification for this role and information on the trust.

Person Specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 Decontamination
• Degree or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Member of the Institute of Decontamination Services (IDSC).
• City & Guilds 229515 Certificate - Management of the Decontamination Process
• NVQ Level 2 Business Administration.
• NVQ Level 3 Management.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience working within Sterile Services.
• Experience of communicating and managing complaints from customers, suppliers and staff
• Experience of managing large teams.

Desirable

• Production management experience ability to schedule production effectively.

Knowledge

Essential

• Technical knowledge of re-usable medical devices
• Current knowledge of legislation standards, guidance and practices related to decontamination of medical devices, including but not limited to: BS EN ISO 13485:2016 and the MDD 92/43/EEC

Desirable

• In depth knowledge of decontamination technology.

Skills and aptitudes

Essential

• Effective and professional skills
• Ability to collate data and present information and /or reports to groups
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Performance orientated /customer focused
• Ability to analyse data and compile reports
• Ability to appraise and develop staff
• Computer literate

Desirable

• Audit experience /qualification
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi - disciplinary teams
• Understanding of budgetary control and development of business cases

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Chalkmill Drive, Enfield

Unit 3, Chalkmill Drive, Enfield EN1 1TZ

Enfield

EN1 1TZ

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