Sterile Services Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Sterile Services Department as a Band 3 Sterile Services Technician. The role involves ensuring the effective decontamination, inspection, assembly, sterilisation, and distribution of reusable medical devices and surgical instruments. The post holder will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. This position requires excellent attention to detail, the ability to work accurately under pressure, and a commitment to maintaining high standards of infection prevention and control.
Key responsibilities
- Decontaminate, inspect, assemble, sterilise, and distribute reusable medical devices and surgical instruments.
- Adhere to national standards, local policies, and quality management systems.
- Ensure all equipment is processed safely and efficiently for use across clinical services.
- Maintain the highest standards of infection prevention and control.
Essential criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Desirable criteria
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- General Requirements
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
- See job description text above, and (where applicable) you can download a copy of the full job description
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Sterile Services Technician
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Sterile Services Department as a Band 3 Sterile Services Technician. The post holder will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care by ensuring the effective decontamination, inspection, assembly, sterilisation and distribution of reusable medical devices and surgical instruments.
Main duties of the job
For more detail about the main duties of this role, please see the job description section below. As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
About us
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and
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