Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Medical Device Support Worker

The closing date is 01 April 2026

Job summary

This vacancy offers an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated multi-disciplinary team whose mission is to maximise the availability of safe, appropriate medical devices to support high-quality patient care across the Trust.

Our service delivers a range of innovative functions, including Trust-wide clinical equipment schemes (such as resuscitation trolley equipment provision), Equipment Library services, and technical support for respiratory clinics operating multiple times each week.

The key focus of this role is ensuring the availability, safety, and efficient turnaround of Library devices--particularly beds, pumps, and other essential equipment that directly supports frontline care.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring patients and clinical teams have access to safe, reliable medical devices when they need them most. If you are enthusiastic, technically minded, and committed to supporting excellent patient care, we would be delighted to receive your application and welcome you to the team at King's Mill Hospital.

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

18 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7649683

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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

  • The postholder must possess good communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with ward and departmental staff, with a good delivery of spoken English

Qualifications

Essential

  • The postholder requires basic literacy and numeracy skills

Desirable

  • English or Mathematics at GCSE or equivalent

Further Training

Essential

  • The ability to assimilate instructions and work to Standard Operating Procedures

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to perform routine tasks and processes after initial induction training, which typically would take 1 month to assimilate core aspects of the role, contributing effectively to the majority of key result areas after 9 months

Desirable

  • Work in a store or moving & handling environment

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to lift and handle equipment with the correct aids, following basic induction and continuing training. To include moving beds and smaller items of medical equipment
  • May be required to work at other Trust sites on occasion

Desirable

  • Driving Licence
Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • The postholder must possess good communication and interpersonal skills to effectively liaise with ward and departmental staff, with a good delivery of spoken English

Qualifications

Essential

  • The postholder requires basic literacy and numeracy skills

Desirable

  • English or Mathematics at GCSE or equivalent

Further Training

Essential

  • The ability to assimilate instructions and work to Standard Operating Procedures

Experience

Essential

  • Ability to perform routine tasks and processes after initial induction training, which typically would take 1 month to assimilate core aspects of the role, contributing effectively to the majority of key result areas after 9 months

Desirable

  • Work in a store or moving & handling environment

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to lift and handle equipment with the correct aids, following basic induction and continuing training. To include moving beds and smaller items of medical equipment
  • May be required to work at other Trust sites on occasion

Desirable

  • Driving Licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Principal Technician

Chris Moore

Christopher.Moore5@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

18 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 2

Salary

£24,465 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7649683

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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