Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Assistant Technical Officer Mattress Decontamination

The closing date is 06 November 2025

Job summary

We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Assistant Technical Officer to join our small, dedicated Mattress Decontamination Team. In this vital role, you will contribute to the high-quality service of transporting, cleaning, and re-processing pressure relieving and dynamic mattresses, ensuring they are available for wards and departments across the Trust in a timely manner. You will also handle other essential equipment for patient use.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a dynamic team where your role will make a direct impact on patient care. You will play a crucial role in maintaining high standards of cleanliness and safety, providing vital support to medical staff and patients across the Trust.

If you are passionate about delivering a high-quality service in a healthcare environment, apply today to join our Mattress Decontamination Team.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide a high-quality service for the transporting, cleaning, and re-processing of pressure relieving and dynamic mattresses across various wards and departments within the Trust.
  • Re-process used equipment, ensuring it is sterilised, packaged and ready for timely delivery to the correct location.
  • Ensure the safe, efficient and effective reprocessing and sterilisation of instrument procedure packs and equipment for use across the Trust's wards, departments, theatres and partner organisations.
  • Deliver equipment in the correct manner to the right place at the right time, maintaining high standards of quality control.

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.

Details

Date posted

23 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-SRG-7412606

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.

Person Specification

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 and responsibilities of the role
  • Bank holiday cover
  • On-call rota
  • Saturday and Sunday working rota
  • Service provision to both King's Mill and Newark Hospital sites

Knowledge

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

Training

Essential

  • Training in all aspects of departmental processes required

Desirable

  • NHS National Decontamination Training Programme
Person Specification

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 and responsibilities of the role
  • Bank holiday cover
  • On-call rota
  • Saturday and Sunday working rota
  • Service provision to both King's Mill and Newark Hospital sites

Knowledge

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

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


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Decontamination Service Manager

Julie White

julie.white30@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

23 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-SRG-7412606

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-In-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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