# Assistant Technical Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified)
- **Grade:** Band 2
- **Salary:** £25,272 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent: Monday to Friday - working 1 weekend in 5 with 2 rota days off in the week. Weekend and Bank Holiday on call.
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 37.5 hours per week (full and part time hours available)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-10T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:41:20.381Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/SuttonInAshfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Sterile_Services/Sterile_Services-v8237905
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8237905?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Assistant Technical Officer to join our team. In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring that all medical devices comply with the latest healthcare regulations and standards. You will also contribute to our premium reprocessing and sterilisation services, ensuring that medical equipment is not just sterilised but prepared to the utmost standard, promoting optimal patient care and safety.

At King's Mill Hospital, our mission is to craft, execute and sustain an esteemed Quality System for medical devices, aligning seamlessly with the latest directives, regulations, legislation and guidance in the healthcare industry. We are dedicated to ensuring that every medical device we work with meets the highest standards, guaranteeing safety, efficacy and compliance.

Our commitment extends to offering an unparalleled service dedicated to the reprocessing and sterilisation of instrument procedure packs and equipment, delivering excellence to The Trust's wards, departments, Theatres and partner organisations.

### 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

## Person Specification

### Training

**Essential**

- Training in all aspects of departmental processes required

**Desirable**

- NHS National Decontamination Training Programme

### Knowledge

**Desirable**

- Health & Safety issues
- Moving & handling procedures

### 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

### Contractual Requirements

**Essential**

- Medically cleared by Occupational Health as fit to undertake the duties and responsibilities of the role
- Bank holiday cover
- On-call rota
- Saturday and Sunday working rota
- Service provision to both King's Mill and Newark Hospital sites

## Documents

- [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)
- [person specification (pdf, 112.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10548471)
- [a.t.o sterile services (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10548470)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)

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