# Assistant Technical Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-technical-officer/12bfd515-5685-47e9-9747-065c53d0398a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-technical-officer/12bfd515-5685-47e9-9747-065c53d0398a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Sutton In Ashfield - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (To work one weekend in five. On call duties when the department is closed this includes weekends and bank holidays) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-21T15:41:46.684Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttonInAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Decontamination_Science/Decontamination_Science-v7966641 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7966641?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Assistant Technical Officer is a vital part of Decontamination Services at King’s Mill Hospital, playing a key role in ensuring the highest standards of patient safety across the Trust. Working within Sterile Services, Mattress Decontamination, or Endoscopy, the post holder helps deliver a high-quality, responsive service by expertly cleaning, reprocessing, sterilising, and tracking essential medical equipment, surgical instruments, endoscopes, and specialist mattresses. Every item processed directly supports safe, effective patient care across theatres, wards, and clinical departments. This is a highly hands-on and detail-focused role in a fast-paced, essential healthcare environment where precision, pride, and teamwork truly matter. The post holder operates advanced decontamination equipment, follows strict quality and infection control standards, and ensures full traceability through digital systems, all while contributing to a culture of safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement. Working as part of a dedicated and supportive team, this role offers the opportunity to make a real, behind-the-scenes impact on every patient journey across the Trust. ### 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 To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ## Job Details The Assistant Technical Officer is a vital part of Decontamination Services at King’s Mill Hospital, playing a key role in ensuring the highest standards of patient safety across the Trust. Working within Sterile Services, Mattress Decontamination, or Endoscopy, the post holder helps deliver a high-quality, responsive service by expertly cleaning, reprocessing, sterilising, and tracking essential medical equipment, surgical instruments, endoscopes, and specialist mattresses. Every item processed directly supports safe, effective patient care across theatres, wards, and clinical departments. This is a highly hands-on and detail-focused role in a fast-paced, essential healthcare environment where precision, pride, and teamwork truly matter. The post holder operates advanced decontamination equipment, follows strict quality and infection control standards, and ensures full traceability through digital systems, all while contributing to a culture of safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement. Working as part of a dedicated and supportive team, this role offers the opportunity to make a real, behind-the-scenes impact on every patient journey across the Trust. ## Job Description To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ## Responsibilities To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Desirable** - Previous NHS experience - Experience of working in a Decontamination Service ### 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 ### Knowledge Requirements **Desirable** - Health & Safety issues - Moving & handling procedures ### 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 ## Documents - [person spec (pdf, 112.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10298878) - [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702) - [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448) - [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938) - [sterile services a.t.o (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10248286) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.