About this role
Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals is recruiting motivated, reliable and detail-focused individuals to join our Endoscopy Decontamination teams across multiple sites. This is a vital role that directly supports safe patient care by ensuring endoscopes are reprocessed, disinfected and stored to the highest standards.
You will be part of a dedicated team responsible for the safe turnaround of endoscopy equipment, ensuring clinical areas can continue to deliver high-quality diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
Key Responsibilities
Re-process used endoscopes to ensure they are safe and ready for reuse.
Manually clean endoscopes prior to placing them into washer-disinfectors for high-level disinfection.
Prepare endoscopes for placement into drying and storage cabinets following decontamination.
Operate and complete required daily testing on all disinfection and processing equipment, following Standard Operating Procedures.
Work flexibly across sites, including King's Mill Hospital, Newark Hospital and the Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC).
If you are motivated, detail-oriented and ready to contribute to a service that underpins safe, high-quality patient care, we would love to hear from you. With multiple roles available across Sherwood Forest Hospitals, this is an excellent opportunity to build a rewarding career in endoscopy decontamination.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
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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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements Desirable
Health & Safety issues Moving & handling procedures
Qualifications Essential
Adequate level of education to perform in the role; for example, pass grade in GCSE English and Maths, or equivalent, to demonstrate appropriate level of literacy and numeracy Basic keyboard skills
Desirable
GCSE Maths and English Apprenticeship - Decontamination
Further Training Essential
Training in all aspects of departmental processes required
Desirable
NHS National Decontamination Training Programme
Experience Essential
Previous NHS experience Experience of working in a Decontamination Service
Contractual Requirements Essential
Medically cleared by Occupational Health as fit to undertake the duties & responsibilities of the role Bank holiday cover On-call rota Saturday and Sunday working rota Service provision to both King's Mill Hospital and Newark sites
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)