Endoscopy Decontamination Technician | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

st georges nhs trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Greater London is seeking a Band 3 Endoscopy Decontamination Technician to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will reprocess instruments, support nurses, and provide patient-centered care in a collaborative environment. Prior experience in healthcare is an advantage but training will be provided. This role offers an opportunity to work in a forward-thinking unit with a supportive team and a focus on quality care.

Qualifications

• Previous health-care assistant experience or willingness to learn.
• Strong sense of initiative.

Responsibilities

• Reprocess instruments used in endoscopic procedures.
• Provide high-quality support to registered nurses and the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Strong team player

Ability to prioritise workload

Education

Level III NVQ in Care or equivalent

Job description

Role Overview

To work in a collaborative and supportive environment with members of the multidisciplinary team. To carry out care and treatment tasks, delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a wide range of technical ability, numeracy and literacy skills as well as a significant level of interpersonal skills and manual dexterity.

How would you like to come and work in a dynamic and forward-thinking Endoscopy Decontamination Unit at St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?

We are looking for Band 3 Endoscopy Decontamination Technicians, with or without experience, to come and join our team. Training and full induction will be provided.

You will work with the friendly multidisciplinary team in a unit which provides patient-centred care for patients undergoing gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, EMR, Spyglass, ERCP and bronchoscopy procedures.

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic person to work in the role of an Endoscopy Decontamination Technician. You will be responsible for reprocessing instruments and providing high‑quality support to registered nurses, multidisciplinary team and patients.

Responsibilities

• Reprocess instruments used in endoscopic procedures.


• Provide high-quality support to registered nurses, the multidisciplinary team, and patients.

Qualifications

• Previous health‑care assistant experience or Level III NVQ in Care, or willingness to learn.


• Excellent communication and organisational skills.


• Strong sense of initiative and ability to prioritise workload in the face of competing demands.


• Strong team player, self‑motivated, and able to keep a level head in a demanding and constantly changing environment.

About the Trust

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.

The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non‑cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state‑of‑the‑art endoscopy training centre.

Additional Information

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Application Deadline

This advert closes on Monday 8 Dec 2025.