Endoscopy Assistant



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Are you passionate about patient care and looking to make a difference in a dynamic healthcare setting? Join our Endoscopy Department as an Endoscopy Assistant, where you will support our team of registered nurses and endoscopists in delivering the highest quality of care.

As an Endoscopy Assistant, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Endoscopy Department’s day-to-day operations and ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of care throughout their diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. You will work alongside a highly skilled team of registered nurses and endoscopists, assisting in the delivery of endoscopic examinations, biopsies, and treatments.

Your responsibilities will involve directly supporting clinical teams with a range of duties, from performing venepuncture and ECGs to ensuring the decontamination of equipment. You will be entrusted with important tasks that contribute to both patient safety and the smooth operation of the department, all while maintaining a compassionate approach to care.

You will also be responsible for maintaining cleanliness and orderliness in clinical areas, in line with infection control protocols, and helping with the management of stock and supplies to ensure that the department runs efficiently.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification

About us

We are an award-winning (Company Name - Subscribers only) 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 (Company Name - Subscribers only) 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’ (Company Name - Subscribers only)-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Details

Date posted

18 February 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

214-MED-7782759

Job locations

Kings Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Demonstrate clear and robust communication skills.
  • Understand requirements for personal care.

Desirable

  • Ability to decontaminate endoscopes.

Qualifications/Academic/Craft/Professional

Essential

  • NVQ 3 in care

Further Training

Essential

  • Mandatory update and customer care

Experience

Essential

  • Can demonstrate recent experience in a care setting

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Flexible working to accommodate the department opening hours to cover 7 days a week service

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential

  • Demonstrate clear and robust communication skills.
  • Understand requirements for personal care.

Desirable

  • Ability to decontaminate endoscopes.

Qualifications/Academic/Craft/Professional

Essential

  • NVQ 3 in care

Further Training

Essential

  • Mandatory update and customer care

Experience

Essential

  • Can demonstrate recent experience in a care setting

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Flexible working to accommodate the department opening hours to cover 7 days a week service