Decontamination Team Lead

Decontamination Team Lead

Salary: £27,694 p.a. plus benefits

37 hours per week

Swindon Borough Council are on an exciting journey to transform service delivery. We want our town to be the best it can be. Our ambitious vision in the new Swindon Plan is supported by realistic transformation programmes, with the people of Swindon at their heart. Because that’s who we’re doing it for – the communities and businesses that make our town great.

As part of the Council, you’ll support a friendly local authority making decisions with real impact. It’s all for better public services. Better processes. And a better quality of life, for everyone. Join us, and Swindon will be better with you.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Team Lead that can support a small team of Cleaning and Decontamination staff, who are responsible for the correct and effective reprocessing of all returned community equipment in line with Decontamination Policy, Integrated Community Equipment Stores (ICES) Local Operating Procedure and Care Quality Commission (CQC) outcomes.

In this role, you will be allocating work, carry out spot checks and audits of equipment ensuring Quality Control (QC) standards are met, using Local Operating Procedure and that CQC compliance is achieved. You will provide regular feedback to Swindon Community Equipment Stores (SCES) Operations Manager on targets and issues and ensure that all procedures relating to the Cleaning and Decontamination department are understood and followed, including ensuring training needs are identified and provided and that the departments targets are met.

In addition, you will be dismantling community equipment for pre-cleaning inspection to ensure safety and economic viability before re-issue to service users. Ensuring clear separation and storage of dirty and clean storage areas/items, including housekeeping of all areas and that accurate records are maintained.

General duties will include, working alongside your team, cleaning of warehouse facilities and delivering or collecting equipment to our service users, where you must remain supportive when dealing with sensitive and difficult situations. You must have the ability to demonstrate an understanding, have empathy, whilst maintaining confidentiality and Data Protection policies at all times.

To apply for this role, you must have knowledge of Infection Control and/or CQC outcomes in relation to this, experience of stores procedures, including use of mechanical cleaning equipment and moving and handling of large items. The ability to carry out risk assessments in relation to moving and handling and quality control aspects of work and be able to demonstrate that you hold the ability to communicate effectively with staff and customers, at all levels.

You must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act “for the effective performance of a customer-facing role”).

The ability to travel throughout the Borough will be required and access to a car.

You will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

As an employee, you will receive a diverse and exciting environment in which to work, encouraging creativity and innovation whilst recognising the need to support ongoing personal development and a flexible work life balance.

Potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet the majority of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

Please read the role profile, which is available in the documents section to the righthand side of the page.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, so early applications are encouraged.

For further information about the role please contact Vanessa McMillan, Service Lead at

As an inclusive employer, we welcome applications from a diverse range of communities, and in particular disabled people and people from ethnic minorities. Read our statement of commitment to equality & inclusion.

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Closing date: 31 August 2026

Interview date: 7 September 2026