Assistant Technical Officer - Mattress Decontamination

Job overview

Step into a role where your work directly protects patients and supports frontline clinical teams. As an Assistant Technical Officer within the Mattress Decontamination Team at King’s Mill Hospital, you will play a key part in preventing infection and promoting patient comfort by ensuring dynamic pressure-relieving mattresses are safely collected, thoroughly cleaned, inspected, and returned ready for use.

You will be responsible for transporting mattresses across wards and departments, checking decontamination certification, and meticulously cleaning and disinfecting equipment in line with strict infection prevention and Quality Management System standards. Every mattress must be carefully inspected to ensure it is fully functional, safe, and compliant before being barcoded, tracked, and redistributed.

This is a hands-on, active role requiring attention to detail, physical stamina, and the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment. You will help ensure the right equipment is available in the right place at the right time — directly contributing to patient safety, dignity, and high-quality care across the Trust.

If you enjoy practical work, take pride in high standards, and want to make a visible difference to patient wellbeing every day, this is a rewarding and essential role within the healthcare team.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.