Senior Technical Officer (STO)

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Leigh on Sea; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Technical Officer (STO) to support a specialised decontamination service for medical devices, ensuring quality management and patient safety. The role involves staff training, maintaining training records, and collaborating with clinical teams to select best products for staff and patients.

Key duties include managing staff aims for the year, communicating within the SSD team, handling complex information with healthcare professionals,

Qualifications

• Already a band 3 with experience.
• Management of staff shifts and work criteria.
• Understanding of machinery and process.

Responsibilities

• Assist the management to provide a professional cost effective service to all wards and departments within the Trust, and to other organisations with whom supply arrangements have been agreed; and to provide such technical advice as these services require.
• Communicate all relevant information within the SSD team to ensure the continual and efficient running of the service.
• Communicate complex, technical information and advice to customers/ services users and other healthcare professionals in a polite and helpful manner.
• Assist with Datix and non-conformances investigations ensuring outcomes are recorded following departmental procedures and communicated to the relevant staff members.
• Attend and actively participate in the Department's meetings and ensure information is effectively passed to all staff and the SSD management during hand-over meetings.
• Raise concerns with senior staff when needed.
• Liaise with appropriate colleagues on establishing reusable medical devices into sets and trays and review content as appropriate.

Skills

Band 3 experience

Staff management

Machinery understanding

Job description

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Technical Officer (STO)

The closing date is 12 November 2026

The Senior Technical Officer will participate in the provision of a specialised decontamination service of medical devices ensuring that the processes set in the departmental Quality Management System are met and devices are safe for use and contributing to the clinical care of the patient.

Work closely with the Production Co-Ordinator identifying training needs of all staff members to ensure their professional skills and knowledge are up to date and meet their potential.

Ensure that departmental training is provided and training records are up to date and filled according to the Quality Management System.

You will work in close collaboration with other professionals e.g. Clinical Directors, Consultants, Clinical Nurse specialists and ward / department representatives to select best choice products required by clinical staff and their patients.t

Main duties of the job

You will assist the management to provide a professional cost effective service to all wards and departments within the Trust, and to other organisations with whom supply arrangements have been agreed; and to provide such technical advice as these services require.

• Assist in undertaking assessments of Sterile Services Technicians and agree their aims and objectives for the coming year.
• To communicate all relevant information within the SSD team to ensure the continual and efficient running of the service.
• To communicate complex, technical information and advice to customers/ services users and other healthcare professionals in a polite and helpful manner.
• Assist with datix and non-conformances investigation ensuring outcomes are recorded following departmental procedures and communicated to the relevant staff members.
• Attend and actively participate in the Department's meetings and ensure information are effectively pass to all staff and the SSD management during hand-over meetings.
• To have the knowledge and ability to raise concerns with senior staff.
• To liaise with appropriate colleagues and interested users, on establishing reusable medical devices into sets and trays designed to meet their needs and re-viewing that content as appropriate.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of the role and responsibilities.

We look forward to your application.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Already a band 3 with experience
• Management of staff shifts and work criteria

Staff management

• Manage and motivate team to achieve goals

Knowledge

• understanding of machinery and process

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 name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£28,392 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)