Decontamination Assistant (Sterile services)
England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 7 hours ago
Join a vital team at Bedford Hospital where your work directly supports safe, high-quality patient care.
As a Decontamination Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring reusable medical devices — including endoscopes — are cleaned, disinfected, and sterilised to the highest standards. Working within both the Sterile Services Department and the Endoscope Decontamination Unit, you will follow strict ISO‑accredited policies, procedures, and work instructions to maintain safety, compliance, and excellence.
This is a hands-on and essential role where attention to detail and teamwork are critical. You will support all decontamination-related duties, ensuring clinical teams have safe, ready-to-use equipment at all times while adhering to departmental standards across all areas.
The successful candidate will be committed to delivering a safe, compliant, and high-quality service for all customers and stakeholders. You will be motivated, adaptable, and flexible with working hours, including weekends, and demonstrate a willingness to undertake all training required to excel in the role.
At Bedford Hospital, our priority is to provide the standard of care we would expect for our own loved ones. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace, ensuring we have the right people in the right roles to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
This is a full-time position working Tuesday to Friday from 14:00 to 22:00, and Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00.
The Decontamination Service at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust comprises the Sterile Services Department and the Endoscopy Decontamination Unit. Both areas are responsible for supplying sterile and disinfected reusable medical devices to wards, departments and theatres across the Trust. This work includes the collection, decontamination, preparation, packing, sterilisation or disinfection, and distribution of reusable medical devices.
Key Duties Include
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Magda Marin Job title: Deputy Head of Decontamination Services Email address: Magda.Marin@bedsft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01234 792 130
As a Decontamination Assistant, you will play a key role in ensuring reusable medical devices — including endoscopes — are cleaned, disinfected, and sterilised to the highest standards. Working within both the Sterile Services Department and the Endoscope Decontamination Unit, you will follow strict ISO‑accredited policies, procedures, and work instructions to maintain safety, compliance, and excellence.
This is a hands-on and essential role where attention to detail and teamwork are critical. You will support all decontamination-related duties, ensuring clinical teams have safe, ready-to-use equipment at all times while adhering to departmental standards across all areas.
The successful candidate will be committed to delivering a safe, compliant, and high-quality service for all customers and stakeholders. You will be motivated, adaptable, and flexible with working hours, including weekends, and demonstrate a willingness to undertake all training required to excel in the role.
At Bedford Hospital, our priority is to provide the standard of care we would expect for our own loved ones. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace, ensuring we have the right people in the right roles to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
This is a full-time position working Tuesday to Friday from 14:00 to 22:00, and Saturday from 12:00 to 20:00.
The Decontamination Service at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust comprises the Sterile Services Department and the Endoscopy Decontamination Unit. Both areas are responsible for supplying sterile and disinfected reusable medical devices to wards, departments and theatres across the Trust. This work includes the collection, decontamination, preparation, packing, sterilisation or disinfection, and distribution of reusable medical devices.
Key Duties Include
- Receiving, sorting and preparing reusable medical devices, including endoscopes, for cleaning and disinfection.
- Inspecting, re‑assembling, function‑testing, packaging, sealing and labelling devices that have been successfully washed, disinfected and dried.
- Conducting independent checks of instrument trays prepared by others, ensuring all contents are correct and reporting any discrepancies.
- Maintaining an understanding of the basic types and categories of instruments and flexible scopes, recognising their functions and identifying key inspection and testing points.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Magda Marin Job title: Deputy Head of Decontamination Services Email address: Magda.Marin@bedsft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01234 792 130
