Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

As part of our growing service we are looking for you to join our busy Endoscopy Unit at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust-. Our services cover the sites of Queen Alexandra Hospital and Gosport War memorial Hospital due to this you will be expected to be mobile across all PHU sites.

We are a highly motivated team running five full time Endoscopy suites, and an unsedated nurse-led satellite unit at Gosport War Memorial. We will also being opening a brand new state of the art Elective Endoscopy Service.

We are a core diagnostic function of the hospital and keep the flow of patients getting the care they need. Our services include an ever increasing number of specialised therapeutic and diagnostic procedures which require a high level of technical capability and a passion for problem solving.

The main responsibility of this post will be as a Supervisor of the decontamination team, which involves daily manual cleaning and processing of Endoscopes for the procedure rooms. Training and supervision will be ongoing during the first 12 week ‘in house’ competencies, and you will be supported to enhance your leadership skills.

Shifts for this role will include a variety of:

Early - 07:30 - 15:00

Late - 11:30 - 19:00

Days - 08:00 - 18:00

7 - days a week

This can be a physically demanding as you will be standing and moving across the site for your shift and challenging role but is very rewarding. We offer full in house training, apprenticeships and internal progression to various posts within Endoscopy. We are able to support the validation of your portfolio of evidence.

You will be expected to work in a team and learn all aspects of decontamination of flexible endoscopes. To work alongside the multi-disciplinary team in delivering high level decontamination expertise and care to patients in all areas of the department, including covering the Gosport Unit and the EEC when it opens.

For more information, please refer to the Job Description.

Qualifications 

Essential

• Maths and English at GCSE level or equivalent.

Desirable

• Leadership insights

Experience

Essential

• Experience in an Endoscopy decontamination (1 years minimum)
• Experience in supervising of teams

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Ability to work as part of a team, but also able to use own initiative and work without supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Evidence of organisational skills
• Dextrous.
• Evidence of technical skills and capability
• Able to maintain a sense of humour and friendly disposition whilst working in a pressured environment.
• Innovative and adaptable to change.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.