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Benenden Hospital

Decontamination Service Technician

The closing date is 02 February 2026

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Job summary

Be part of the team that keeps patients safe every single day!

Are you motivated, detail driven, and passionate about supporting excellent patient care behind the scenes? Join us at Benenden Hospital as a Decontamination Technician, where your work directly contributes to patient safety and first class clinical outcomes.

This is your opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring our reusable medical devices are processed to the highest standards because in this role, every instrument you handle helps a patient on their journey to better health.

Why This Role Matters

Behind every procedure, every surgery, and every moment of patient recovery, your work ensures safety, reliability, and confidence. If you take pride in precision, teamwork and doing things right, youll thrive here.

Main duties of the job

What You will Do

As a key member of our Decontamination team, you will:

  • Work collaboratively to deliver a controlled, high quality decontamination service for reusable medical devices
  • Ensure excellent standards throughout all stages of the decontamination process, supporting outstanding patient care
  • Accurately record information to maintain a full trackandtrace system, ensuring safety and compliance
  • Prioritise workload effectively with your team and internal clinical departments
  • Follow our Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System to ensure safe, consistent, and compliant operations

About us

At Benenden Hospital we put patients at the heart of everything we do. We attract kind, compassionate, and talented people to our ultra-modernprivate hospital, which opened in 1907 and has been rated as Outstanding by the CQC.We hold JAG accreditation for Endoscopy and have a beautiful setting in the middle of the Kent countryside.

Benenden Hospital offers excellent working conditions and facilities. We promote flexible working and a healthy work/life balance. We are committed to professional development and have excellent training and education facilities. We work hard to make sure that everyone at Benenden Hospital feels involved and shares our values and vision for the future.

Details

Date posted

16 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,570 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0100-2834-2765

Job locations

Goddard’s Green Road

Benenden

Cranbrook

Kent

TN17 4AX


Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose: To support clinical activity and excellence in patient safety by providing a controlled Decontamination Service for reusable medical

devices in Benenden Hospital

The post holder will:

Work as part of a team providing a controlled decontamination service, reprocessing reusable medical devices for Benenden

Hospital

Contributing to the clinical care of the patient by achieving standards of excellence throughout all processes of decontamination

Accurate recording of information to ensure a full track and traceability system.

Work with the team and internal customers to prioritise workload

Work in accordance with the departments Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System

Key Result Areas

To reprocess reusable surgical instruments and flexible endoscopes including receipt, disassembly, manual cleaning, automated wash-disinfection, inspection, functionality testing, assembly, packing, sterilization and despatch

To operate decontamination equipment safely and carry out routine daily tests as set out in the DS Planned Preventative Maintenance and periodic testing schedule

Use of electronic tracking and traceability system

To plan and prioritise workload with consideration to the DS team and the needs of the internal customer and patients

The reporting of resource issues to Deputy DS Manager or DS Manager

Accurate and timely reporting of breakdowns

Job description

Job responsibilities

Purpose: To support clinical activity and excellence in patient safety by providing a controlled Decontamination Service for reusable medical

devices in Benenden Hospital

The post holder will:

Work as part of a team providing a controlled decontamination service, reprocessing reusable medical devices for Benenden

Hospital

Contributing to the clinical care of the patient by achieving standards of excellence throughout all processes of decontamination

Accurate recording of information to ensure a full track and traceability system.

Work with the team and internal customers to prioritise workload

Work in accordance with the departments Standard Operating Procedures and Quality Management System

Key Result Areas

To reprocess reusable surgical instruments and flexible endoscopes including receipt, disassembly, manual cleaning, automated wash-disinfection, inspection, functionality testing, assembly, packing, sterilization and despatch

To operate decontamination equipment safely and carry out routine daily tests as set out in the DS Planned Preventative Maintenance and periodic testing schedule

Use of electronic tracking and traceability system

To plan and prioritise workload with consideration to the DS team and the needs of the internal customer and patients

The reporting of resource issues to Deputy DS Manager or DS Manager

Accurate and timely reporting of breakdowns

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Knowledge and experience in the decontamination of reusable medical devices
  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • NVQ level 3/Technical Certificate Decontamination or equivalent level and knowledge and experience through decontamination training or willingness to undertake
  • IT literate e.g. MS Office suite
  • Working in a timely manner while achieving high levels of accuracy
  • Be flexible and adaptable to meet the changing needs
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Knowledge and experience in the decontamination of reusable medical devices
  • Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
  • NVQ level 3/Technical Certificate Decontamination or equivalent level and knowledge and experience through decontamination training or willingness to undertake
  • IT literate e.g. MS Office suite
  • Working in a timely manner while achieving high levels of accuracy
  • Be flexible and adaptable to meet the changing needs

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Benenden Hospital

Address

Goddard’s Green Road

Benenden

Cranbrook

Kent

TN17 4AX


Employer's website

https://www.benendenhospital.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Benenden Hospital

Address

Goddard’s Green Road

Benenden

Cranbrook

Kent

TN17 4AX


Employer's website

https://www.benendenhospital.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment team

KentCareers@benenden.org.uk

0158087472

Details

Date posted

16 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,570 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

E0100-2834-2765

Job locations

Goddard’s Green Road

Benenden

Cranbrook

Kent

TN17 4AX


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