Assistant Technical Officer Decontamination

Job summary

Decontamination Servicesencompasses theSterile Services Department,Mattress Decontamination, andEndoscopy Decontamination.

The service is responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining an accreditedQuality Management Systemfor the processing of medical devices and mattresses, in line with all relevantCQC,NICE, andmedical device directives, regulations, legislation, and guidance.

We are committed to delivering and maintaining a high-quality sterilisation service for surgical instrumentation--whether produced in-house or purchased--essential to the operations of both on-site and off-site users. These includeOperating Theatres,Wards,Outpatient Clinics,Radiology,Emergency Departments,Community Nursing, andMidwifery Servicesacross NHS Trusts. Services are also extended toGeneral Practitioners,Private Practices, andNursing Homes.

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose

This role will be based inSterile Servicesand includes the following key responsibilities:

• Delivering a high-quality service for thereprocessing and sterilisationof instrument procedure packs and equipment for the Trust's wards, departments, theatres, and partner organisations.
• Providing a high-quality service for thetransporting, cleaning, and reprocessing of pressure-relieving and dynamic mattressesto wards and departments across the Trust in a timely manner.
• Reprocessing used equipment to ensure it is supplied correctly, to the right place, at the right time.

About us

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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.