Head of Built Environment IPC

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work

Car lease scheme

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an experienced leader to take on the Head of Built Environment IPC role. You will provide strategic IPC guidance across healthcare redevelopment, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental risk management within the Trust's built environment.

Working with senior colleagues, you will embed IPC requirements in capital projects, service reconfigurations and operational activities, and lead governance, assurance and improvement

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with a statutory regulator (GMC/NMC/GPhC).
• Master's level education or higher, and ongoing professional development.
• Experience leading IPC in built environment including water safety, ventilation and decontamination.
• Strong governance, risk management and incident management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the Trust-wide built environment IPC portfolio.
• Embed IPC requirements in capital developments, refurbishment and service reconfigurations.
• Lead development of strategy, policy and assurance frameworks for IPC in estates projects.
• Represent IPC at senior forums and contribute to executive reporting.

Skills

IPC leadership

Strategic governance

Risk management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's degree or equivalent

Evidence of continuous professional development

PhD/Doctorate or equivalent studies

Registration with GMC/NMC/GPhC or similar regulator

Tools

PRINCE2 or project management qualification

Job description

Head of Built Environment IPC "where Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) expertise meets healthcare design, estates and patient safety"

We are seeking an exceptional and experienced IPC leader to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as our Head of Built Environment IPC.

Who we are: About us | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

This is a rare 24-month opportunity to bring your IPC expertise to some of the Trust's most complex and important built environment work.

Working alongside the Director and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control, you will provide expert leadership across healthcare redevelopment, capital projects, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental risk management.

Collaboration is central to this role. As part of the senior IPC leadership team, you will work across the Trust, influencing key decisions and ensuring infection prevention is at the heart of how we develop and transform our healthcare environments.

We are looking for an experienced registered healthcare professional with strong senior-level IPC expertise, sound judgement and the ability to build relationships, manage complex risks and bring people together to deliver improvement.

Main duties of the job

• You will provide strategic leadership for the Trust-wide built environment infection prevention and control portfolio, ensuring effective governance, assurance and risk management across healthcare infrastructure, redevelopment, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental IPC programmes.
• Working closely with senior clinical, operational, estates and facilities colleagues, you will ensure infection prevention requirements are embedded throughout capital developments, refurbishment projects, service reconfigurations and operational activities.
• You will provide authoritative specialist advice, undertake complex risk assessments, oversee assurance arrangements and support the identification, mitigation and escalation of significant infection prevention risks.
• The role includes leading the development of strategy, policy and assurance frameworks; contributing specialist expertise to incident and outbreak management where environmental factors are relevant; and supporting organisational improvement through audit, education, research and innovation.
• You will represent the IPC service at senior internal and external forums and contribute to executive and Board-level reporting and assurance processes.
• You will provide professional leadership to staff within your portfolio, build effective partnerships across organisational boundaries and drive continuous improvement in infection prevention practice.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

• Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
• Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with a statutory regulator e.g. GMC, NMC, GPhC etc.
• Educated to master's level, working toward this or comparable experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
• PhD/Professional Doctorate or study at this level
• Professional publications PRINCE or other Project/Programme management qualification

Experience

• Substantial practical experience of providing senior IPC advice and assurance in relation to the built environment, including water safety, ventilation, decontamination, estates works and capital or redevelopment schemes.
• Experience of identifying, communicating and escalating significant or emerging risks, including challenging senior stakeholders and securing delivery of corrective actions across organisational boundaries
• Substantial senior experience at a senior clinical level leading and delivering services
• Extensive experience of implementing quality systems and benchmarking
• Complaints management and experience of the litigation process.
• Experience of leading and successfully implementing service improvement/redesign programmes in a multi disciplinary environment/ across a range of services
• Proven track record and have demonstrable formal research expertise, knowledge and skills

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.

Deputy Director Infection Prevention and Control