Sterile Services Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves the critical cleaning, decontamination, and sterilisation of reusable surgical instruments and equipment to support surgical care for patients. You will work within a large, friendly team committed to high standards, ensuring all products are fit for purpose and produced efficiently. The department is accredited to ISO13485, maintaining and improving quality standards. This fixed-term position is vital for enabling operations and outpatient procedures.
Key responsibilities
- Work with management and supervisors to meet production needs.
- Comply with all local policies and procedures.
- Wash and decontaminate instruments according to policies, particularly Health and Safety and Control of Infection.
- Repack and prepare instrument sets and packs for theatres and other departments.
- Ensure packs are clearly identified using the bar coded traceability system.
- Sterilize instrument packs using dual temperature steam autoclaves and other sterilizing equipment.
Essential criteria
- GCSE's /O Levels or ability to demonstrate equivalent
- Decontamination NVQ Level 3 or Equivalent
- Experience of producing quality products within a defined performance criteria
- Demonstrate awareness of importance of working as part of a team
- Able to communicate effectively in difficult or stressful situations
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Ensure all work processed is recorded using the IT tracking systems in accordance with the relevant work instruction
Desirable criteria
- Full or part member of IDSc/CSC
- Experience in a theatre or sterile services department
- Experience of working with the NHS
- Competent in the operation of sterilisers and washer/disinfectors Computer literate with knowledge of tracking systems
- Knowledge of working with a QMS
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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Job summary
We are a large friendly team with a commitment to high standards and meeting the needs of our customers in this critical area. Involves the cleaning, decontamination and sterilising of re-usable surgical instruments and equipment to support the Trust in the provision of surgical care for our patients. We work closely with our operating theatres and wards to provide safe, sterile surgical instruments and equipment within the timeframes that it is required.
Without the safe reprocessing of re-usable sterile instruments and equipment patients would not be able to have their operations and outpatient procedures. We are accredited to the ISO13485 and constantly seek to maintain and improve our quality standards.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship or a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for this post.
Main duties of the job
To ensure that all products manufactured in the Sterile Services department within the Trust are fit for purpose and produced in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with the Quality Management System (QMS) relevant to the area.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in
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