About this role
Job summary
The Assistant Technical Officer is a vital part of Decontamination Services at King's Mill Hospital, playing a key role in ensuring the highest standards of patient safety across the Trust. Working within Sterile Services, Mattress Decontamination, or Endoscopy, the post holder helps deliver a high-quality, responsive service by expertly cleaning, reprocessing, sterilising, and tracking essential medical equipment, surgical instruments, endoscopes, and specialist mattresses. Every item processed directly supports safe, effective patient care across theatres, wards, and clinical departments.
This is a highly hands-on and detail-focused role in a fast-paced, essential healthcare environment where precision, pride, and teamwork truly matter. The post holder operates advanced decontamination equipment, follows strict quality and infection control standards, and ensures full traceability through digital systems, all while contributing to a culture of safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement. Working as part of a dedicated and supportive team, this role offers the opportunity to make a real, behind-the-scenes impact on every patient journey across the Trust.
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
Experience Desirable
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
Further Training Essential
Training in all aspects of departmental processes required
Desirable
NHS National Decontamination Training Programme
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)