Sterile Processing & Decontamination Technician

NHS Jobs; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Decontamination Assistant (Sterile services). The role involves inspecting instruments on receipt and throughout processing, dismantling, cleaning, reassembling, packaging, labelling, and ensuring compliance with legislation and service requirements to support patient safety.

You will perform quality checks, escalate decontamination concerns, review cycle data, and manage non-conforming devices to prevent release of unsafe items.

Responsibilities

• Inspect instruments and medical equipment on receipt into decontamination and during processing.
• Dismantle, clean, reassemble, and prepare instruments per manufacturers' instructions and procedures.
• Wrap, package, label and prepare instrument sets to legislation and service requirements.
• Maintaining knowledge of sterilisation and disinfection methods for safe reprocessing of reusable devices.
• Perform quality assurance checks to verify effective decontamination and safety for patient use.
• Identify and escalate concerns about decontamination effectiveness and document failures per procedures.
• Review cycle data before release and distribution of products.
• Use appropriate packaging materials and techniques to protect instruments during storage and transport.
• Follow procedures for non-conforming devices and quarantine unsuitable items after failed washer-disinfector or steriliser cycles.

Job description

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Decontamination Assistant (Sterile services). The role involves inspecting instruments on receipt and throughout processing, dismantling, cleaning, reassembling, packaging, labelling, and ensuring compliance with legislation and service requirements to support patient safety.

You will perform quality checks, escalate decontamination concerns, review cycle data, and manage non-conforming devices to prevent release of unsafe items.