Decontamination Technician - Grange University Hospital

Cwmbrân, Wales, United Kingdom

7/23/2025

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Decontamination Technicians within the Hospital Sterilisation Disinfection Unit based at the Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran and Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.

The Decontamination Technician is integral to delivering both elective and emergency procedures.

We are therefore looking to recruit dynamic and motivated people who are able to work within a team and are eager to learn new skills and build on existing transferrable skills.

The Posts We Have Available Are

Post 1 - Monday to Friday 14:00 - 22:00 based at Grange University Hospital

Post 2 - Monday to Friday 22:00 - 06:00 based at Royal Gwent Hospital

Main duties of the job

The posthlder will provide a high quality service, through the preparation, production, sterilisation and delivery of ward and departmental procedure packs, along with comprehensive Theatre and Day Theatre instrument sets within the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Qualifications And/or Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good level of general education with GCSE passes or equivalent
• Basic computer literacy
• NVQ Level 3 in decontamination or equivalent experience to include completion of the internal training MATRIX
• Completion of E-learning programme in decontamination practices principles
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Internal auditor’s qualification to ISO 9001 standards.
• ‘Institute of Decontamination Sciences’ Technical Certificate Course.
• ECDL qualification
• Ability to deliver practical work based training and assessment
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Professional experience of working in and applying a quality management system within a decontamination service.
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Experience of dealing with customers
• To be able to give advice, instruction, monitor staff and initiate first line corrective action
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in supervising/managing staff
  
  

Aptitude and Abilities

Essential criteria

• Effective communicator with teams and customers
• Ability to manage and respond to unplanned events.
• Ability to provide written reports on a regular basis
• The ability to liaise with people at all levels and to work cooperatively
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to speak Welsh
• Proven ability of working within a decontamination area.