Job summary
- Main area
- Decontamination Services
- Grade
- Grade A
- Contract
- Permanent: The position will be part of the Bank Holiday rota working 8am to 12pm
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm Saturday 8am to 1pm (working 1 in 4 Saturdays))
- Job ref
- 423-AGHS7921198
- Employer
- AGH Solutions Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £25,272 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Decontamination Services Technician (Grade A)
Grade A
AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.
We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for someone to join the Decontamination Services team as a Decontamination Services Technician!
The hours for the role are:
Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm
Saturday 8am to 1pm ( working 1 in 4 Saturdays )
The position will be part of the Bank Holiday rota working 8am to 12pm
Main duties of the job
To undertake decontamination services duties and assist in providing a specialised decontamination of medical devices service contributing to the clinical care of the patient.
To carry out the receipt, disassembly, cleaning and reassembly, packing and sterilization of reusable medical devices. Record all tasks on the Health Edge computerised traceability systems.
Work in accordance with the department’s work instructions and Quality Management systems.
To provide supervision to Apprentice Decontamination Technicians within the team.
Plan own workload with limited supervision.
The role involves exposure to blood and bodily fluids.
Working for our organisation
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.
Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent knowledge/or GCSE English, Maths at Grade C or above.
Desirable criteria
- Basic Microbiology knowledge
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of customer relations and dealing with a diverse customer base both face to face and over the telephone.
- Experience of working in a team but also able to work on own initiative
- Proven experience of working within a Healthcare/manufacturing environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Healthcare/industry experience in health and safety and hygiene
Desirable criteria
- Working within a quality system and standard operating procedures.
- Knowledge and experience in the decontamination of reusable medical devices
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anne Rodgers
- Job title
- Decontamination Services Manager.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294081
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