About this role
Unit Manager
Wetherby | Permanent | Full Time
Up to £56,000 per annum, depending on experience
37.5 hours per week
Nuffield Health is Britain’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organisation. Join us as a Unit Manager and play your part in building a healthier nation.
As a Unit Manager you will effectively lead and manage a regional sterilisation operation, ensuring that a high quality medical devise decontamination service is provided to all hospitals within the region and that customer service excellence is provided to agreed service standards.
As a Unit Manager, some of your key responsibilities will be:
To lead and motivate a management team, including recruitment and selection, induction, development, training, deployment, performance excellence conversations, attendance management and the resolution of employee relation issues.
To ensure that personnel files are kept confidential, maintained and updated appropriately and as required and that HR policies and procedures are applied and adhered to.
To partner others to produce strategic plans that contain all the necessary detail for managing and delivering HSSU services in support of the organisational strategy and objectives.
To create and review methods, processes and systems for implementing HSSU business plans and delivering the service.
To monitor service and evaluate performance against plans, identifying any issues, predicting future needs and shortfalls, identifying trends and assessing capability to meet future needs.
To monitor, review and update HSSU operational requirements and plans, ensuring that tracking and tracing systems for medical devices processed by HSSU are maintained to the required standards.
To ensure that all audits and reviews of HSSU facilities, equipment, processes, systems and its performance are undertaken with actions taken to address any issues.
The Person:
NVQ Level 3 in Health (Decontamination) or equivalent demonstrable experience.
Significant relevant experience working within a decontamination unit at management level.
Significant people and financial management experience.
Good IT skills, including MD Office, External Audit systems and Traceability Systems
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
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Other facts
About Nuffield Health
Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells hospital provides high quality private healthcare for the residents of Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding areas. As a not-for-profit hospital, we reinvest our profits into improving our facilities and services.
We work with industry-leading consultants to offer a wide range of services and treatments and have a special focus on orthopaedics, paediatric care, oncology, urology and cosmetic surgery.
Our highly trained staff, led by our resident matron, provide care on an individual basis to encourage a speedy recovery and wellbeing.
What you'll do
- The Unit Manager will lead and manage a regional sterilisation operation, ensuring high-quality medical device decontamination services are provided. Responsibilities include leading a management team, developing strategic plans, monitoring service performance, and ensuring compliance with operational requirements.
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