Assistant Technical Officer Decontamination | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,465 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7271989/214-SRG-7271989 |
Summary
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality healthcare support services? Join our dedicated Sterile Services team as an Assistant Technical Officer – Decontamination, where your work will directly impact patient safety and care across the Trust.
As an Assistant Technical Officer – Decontamination, you will play a vital role in supporting the safe and effective delivery of healthcare services across the Trust. Based in the Sterile Services Department, you will be part of a highly skilled and dedicated team responsible for ensuring that all reusable medical devices and equipment are decontaminated, sterilised and returned to clinical areas in a timely and compliant manner.
This is a hands-on, operational role where attention to detail, adherence to strict protocols, and a commitment to patient safety are essential. You will work across multiple areas of the Decontamination Service, including:
• Sterile Services – reprocessing surgical instruments and procedure packs.
• Mattress Decontamination – cleaning and reprocessing pressure-relieving and dynamic mattresses.
• Endoscopy Decontamination – supporting the safe turnaround of endoscopic equipment.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced, regulated environment where your contribution is critical to infection prevention and patient care. You’ll receive full training and support, with opportunities to develop your skills and progress within the decontamination and sterile services field.
To understand the role in more details, please read the attached job description and person specification document.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more details, please read the attached job description and person specification document.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025
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