Educator - Sterile Service

1 week ago

Christchurch, New Zealand Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury Full time

**Permanent full-time position available.**:

- ** Do you have a relevant level 4 or 5 qualification with the ability to use your knowledge of the service to educate, train and support all staff within Sterile Services.**:

- ** Seeking someone, reliable, culturally competent, and calm under pressure.**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

Our Sterile Services Department at the brand new Waipapa Hospital are an integral part of ensuring quality service provision to our community. To ensure that we continue to offer the best patient care our key team keeps things running smoothly from behind the scenes. We provide a service to decontaminate, pack and sterilise instruments for the operating theatres and many other departments.

The Educator is responsible for the education, training and on-going support of all staff employed to work in Sterile Services including inter department in-servicing, assisting technicians in gaining Sterile Sciences accreditation whilst delivering Quality initiatives for department compliance. This role leads the standards of practice, updating IFU - s and managing the imbedded Quality Management System. You will work collaboratively with the Sterile Services leadership team to create, encourage and support a team work environment and provide communication and leadership by identifying team training needs and areas of development.

**Ko wai koe | About You**
- Drives for superior personal and professional performance with an attention to detail with minimum 5 years Sterile Services experience.
- A high level of communication skills understanding various teaching methods.
- Able to accept change within the work environment.
- Builds trust and promote education visibility within sterile services.
- Mentor, train and coach on a daily basis to a team of 50+ Sterile Sciences professionals.
- Foster and sustain an environment for ongoing education and quality improvement including collaboration across both Sterile Services and CDHB departments.

**Mō mātou | About Us**
- Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi_ - _Putting people at the heart of all we do - _

Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand, leads the day-to-day running of our health system across New Zealand, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. It weaves the functions of the 20 former District Health Boards into its regional divisions and district offices, ensuring continuity of services in the health system.

Here in Waitaha, Canterbury we deliver health services to the almost 600,000 people that live in the Canterbury region. We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles by ensuring our partnership with Māori are at the forefront of all our conversations.

**Ngā** **hua | Benefits of working at Te Whatu Ora [Health New Zealand]**

When you work at the Te Whatu Ora, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your journey. We offer great coaching, mentoring and learning outcomes for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have amazing discounts from select retailers, restaurants and business.

We have a range of clinical and non-clinical roles at Health New Zealand, there could be a place for you

Please visit our careers website for other roles and find your ideal fit within Health New Zealand.

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