Assistant Technical Officer - Mattress Decontamination
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton in Ashfeild, NG17 4JL
Salary
£25,272
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
10 September 2026
9 days left
Job description
Step into a role where your work directly protects patients and supports frontline clinical teams. As an Assistant Technical Officer within the Mattre...
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.
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Knowledge Requirements
Desirable
- Health & Safety issues
- Moving & handling procedures
Qualifications
Essential
- Adequate level of education to perform in the role; for example, pass grade in GCSE English and Maths, or equivalent, to demonstrate appropriate level of literacy and numeracy
- Basic keyboard skills
Desirable
- GCSE Maths and English
- Apprenticeship - Decontamination
Further Training
Essential
- Training in all aspects of departmental processes required
Desirable
- NHS National Decontamination Training Programme
Experience
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of working in a Decontamination Service
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Medically cleared by Occupational Health as fit to undertake the duties & responsibilities of the role
- Bank holiday cover
- On-call rota
- Saturday and Sunday working rota
- Service provision to both King's Mill Hospital and Newark sites
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
27 August 2026
Last checked
1 September 2026
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