Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Specialist
Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Specialist
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Job Description
This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.
Band 7: 47810 - 54710
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Type: permanent
Are you passionate about Infection Prevention An exciting opportunity has arisen within our dynamic Infection Prevention Team. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate who wishes to expand their knowledge experience and learn new skills.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated individual with strong leadership skills that will inspire and motivate others to take individual responsibility for IPC across the Trust.
The successful candidate will be expected to be an expert autonomous practitioner with excellent communication skills and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will need to promote and set high standards of IPC providing expert advice to mitigate risks of infection to patients staff and visitors.
Key duties of the role include:
- Promote and set high standards of IPC in line with Trust policies protocols and guidelines.
- You will be required to work to high standards maintaining a high quality finish to aspects of your work.
- Liaise with the operations department and bed managers on a daily basis to ensure effective patient placement and minimise risk of infection.
- Apply microbiological immunological and epidemiological knowledge to reduce and prevent infections and communicable disease.
- To act as a role model of expert clinical practice empowering others through effective role modelling teaching and team working.
- Be a strong patient advocate ensuring that the care of patients reflects best clinical standards.
- To work with the DIPC/Dep DIPC/Senior Matron to contribute to development of the IPC strategy.
- Responsible for the day-to-day line management of staff.
- To provide support and mentorship for more junior members of the team.
if you would like an informal discussion about the role please contact Kelly Brechany Senior Matron IPC PHU and IWT. TelephoneExt 1746
For additional information please see attached Job description
Qualifications :
Qualifications
Essential
- Current RN with NMC registration
- Recognised Specialist post registration qualification in Infection Control
- Teaching qualification/experience
Desirable
- BSc Degree Level Qualification (considering or working towards a MSc)
Experience
- Evidence of change management with relevant management/leadership course
- Evidence of developing policy guidelines and managing resources
- Clinical supervision
Knowledge
- Clinically competent
- Clinical decision maker
- Advanced communication skills
- Effective leadership skills
- Organisational skills and forward planning
- Flexibility
- Coaching and mentoring
- Critical appraisal skills
- Strong customer service
- IT literate
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
Additional Information :
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
