Assistant Technical Officer - Mattress Decontamination

Assistant Technical Officer - Mattress Decontamination

The closing date is 04 March 2026

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.

Job responsibilities

• Collect dynamic pressure relieving mattresses from wards and departments.
• Transport and manage mattresses within the Trust, ensuring timely delivery.
• Verify decontamination certification and compliance.
• Clean and disinfect mattresses and related equipment according to infection prevention protocols.
• Inspect mattresses for functionality and safety before barcoding, tracking, and redistribution.
• Record and report any issues or deviations from standards.
• Collaborate with clinical staff to meet equipment needs efficiently.

Person Specification Knowledge Requirements

• Health & Safety issues.
• Moving & handling procedures.

Qualifications

• 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.
• GCSE Maths and English.

Further Training

• Training in all aspects of departmental processes required.
• NHS National Decontamination Training Programme.

Experience

• Previous NHS experience.
• Experience of working in a Decontamination Service.

Contractual Requirements

• 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.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About us

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.

Visa sponsorship

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Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.