# Head of Decontamination Services

> 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:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-05T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22T13:30:40.154Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Sutton_Ashfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Decontamination_Science/Decontamination_Science-v8337822
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8337822?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

### Excellence Behind Every Procedure | Join Our Decontamination Team

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced, inspiring leader to become Head of Decontamination Services. This is an exciting opportunity to shape an essential service, drive excellence and make a real difference to patient care.

Providing strategic and operational leadership across Sterile Services, Endoscopy Decontamination and Mattress Decontamination, you will lead a critical 24/7 service, ensuring surgical instruments and medical equipment are processed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.

Working with senior leaders, clinical teams and external stakeholders, you will set the strategic direction, champion continuous improvement and develop resilient solutions to meet evolving clinical and operational needs.

Using your specialist scientific and technical expertise, you will strengthen quality assurance and regulatory compliance, oversee risk management and equipment validation, and maintain the highest standards of safety and performance.

As a collaborative leader, you will inspire and develop teams, optimise resources, manage budgets and deliver improvements that balance quality, efficiency and value for money.

### 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- At least 3 years’ experience at senior management level
- Previous scientific management experience
- Significant experience of relevant medical devices used within the decontamination services
- Significant knowledge of ISO standards and their implementation
- Significant experience in the use of a PC and operation of Windows-based software
- Significant understanding and use of a Decontamination Services tracking system
- Significant experience in the use and management of a Quality System
- Proven significant experience of efficient and effective budget management

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Postgraduate Degree or equivalent level of knowledge through academic courses to postgraduate level
- Professional specialist management and scientific knowledge to Master’s degree or equivalent level of knowledge
- Evidence of ongoing CPD

### Further Training

**Essential**

- Have sound keyboard skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word

**Desirable**

- Ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint

### Knowledge Requirements

**Essential**

- Professional knowledge acquired training to degree level (5 years study)
- Full Chartered Member membership of IDSc (Institute of Decontamination Sciences)

## 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)
- [head of decontamination services (pdf, 208.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10661675)

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