Head of Decontamination Services

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced leader to become Head of Decontamination Services. This pivotal role oversees Sterile Services, Endoscopy Decontamination and Mattress Decontamination, leading a 24/7 operation to ensure instruments and equipment are processed safely and to the highest standards.

Working with senior teams and external partners, you will set strategic direction, champion continuous improvement, strengthen quality assurance and maintain

Qualifications

• Experience leading decontamination or sterile services in healthcare.
• Strong track record in quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to collaborate with clinical teams and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Sterile Services, Endoscopy Decontamination and Mattress Decontamination.
• Lead a critical 24/7 service ensuring safety and high standards of processing of instruments and equipment.
• Set strategic direction, champion continuous improvement and develop resilient solutions.
• Oversee risk management, equipment validation and regulatory compliance.
• Inspire and develop teams, manage budgets and drive value for money.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

Quality assurance

Risk management

Budget management

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced, inspiring leader to become Head of Decontamination Services. This is an exciting opportunity to shape an essential service, drive excellence and make a real difference to patient care.

Providing strategic and operational leadership across Sterile Services, Endoscopy Decontamination and Mattress Decontamination, you will lead a critical 24/7 service, ensuring surgical instruments and medical equipment are processed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.

Working with senior leaders, clinical teams and external stakeholders, you will set the strategic direction, champion continuous improvement and develop resilient solutions to meet evolving clinical and operational needs.

Using your specialist scientific and technical expertise, you will strengthen quality assurance and regulatory compliance, oversee risk management and equipment validation, and maintain the highest standards of safety and performance.

As a collaborative leader, you will inspire and develop teams, optimise resources, manage budgets and deliver improvements that balance quality, efficiency and value for money.

Lead the future of decontamination, champion excellence and drive innovation to deliver safer care for every patient.

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.

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