NHS
Head of Decontamination Services Overview
| Company Name | NHS |
| Job Role | Head of Decontamination Services |
| Qualifications | Not specified |
| Category | H |
| Job Type | Full Time |
| Location | Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom |
Excellence Behind Every Procedure | Join Our Decontamination Team
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced, inspiring leader to become Head of Decontamination Services. This is an exciting opportunity to shape an essential service, drive excellence and make a real difference to patient care.
Providing strategic and operational leadership across Sterile Services, Endoscopy Decontamination and Mattress Decontamination, you will lead a critical 24/7 service, ensuring surgical instruments and medical equipment are processed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.
Working with senior leaders, clinical teams and external stakeholders, you will set the strategic direction, champion continuous improvement and develop resilient solutions to meet evolving clinical and operational needs.
Using your specialist scientific and technical expertise, you will strengthen quality assurance and regulatory compliance, oversee risk management and equipment validation, and maintain the highest standards of safety and performance.
As a collaborative leader, you will inspire and develop teams, optimise resources, manage budgets and deliver improvements that balance quality, efficiency and value for money.
Lead the future of decontamination, champion excellence and drive innovation to deliver safer care for every patient.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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Details
Date posted
23 October 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
214-SRG-8337822
Job locations
King’s Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired training to degree level (5 years study)
- Full Chartered Member membership of IDSc (Institute of Decontamination Sciences)
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Degree or equivalent level of knowledge through academic courses to postgraduate level
- Professional specialist management and scientific knowledge to Master’s degree or equivalent level of knowledge
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Further Training
Essential
- Have sound keyboard skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word
Desirable
- Ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint
Experience
Essential
- At least 3 years’ experience at senior management level
- Previous scientific management experience
- Significant experience of relevant medical devices used within the decontamination services
- Significant knowledge of ISO standards and their implementation
- Significant experience in the use of a PC and operation of Windows-based software
- Significant understanding and use of a Decontamination Services tracking system
- Significant experience in the use and management of a Quality System
- Proven significant experience of efficient and effective budget management
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired training to degree level (5 years study)
- Full Chartered Member membership of IDSc (Institute of Decontamination Sciences)
Qualifications
Essential
- Postgraduate Degree or equivalent level of knowledge through academic courses to postgraduate level
- Professional specialist management and scientific knowledge to Master’s degree or equivalent level of knowledge
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Further Training
Essential
- Have sound keyboard skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word
Desirable
- Ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint
Experience
Essential
- At least 3 years’ experience at senior management level
- Previous scientific management experience
- Significant experience of relevant medical devices used within the decontamination services
- Significant knowledge of ISO standards and their implementation
- Significant experience in the use of a PC and operation of Windows-based software
- Significant understanding and use of a Decontamination Services tracking system
- Significant experience in the use and management of a Quality System
- Proven significant experience of efficient and effective budget management
Visa Sponsorship May be
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