Assistant Technical Officer Endoscopy Decontamination

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting motivated, reliable and detail‑focused individuals to join our Endoscopy Decontamination teams across multiple sites. This role 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, enabling clinics to deliver high‑quality diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

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).

Job description

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.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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.

Role

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: James Petrie Job title: Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07557182704

Clare Caver

07557182704