Head Of Built Environment Ipc

Trustwide; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) leader to serve as Head of Built Environment IPC on a 24-month fixed-term contract.

In this senior role you will provide strategic leadership and expert oversight across healthcare redevelopment programmes, capital projects, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental IPC, ensuring IPC principles are embedded in service transformation and infrastructure planning.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with a statutory regulator e.g. GMC, NMC, GPhC etc.
• Formal postgraduate qualification in IPC
• Educated to master’s level, working towards this or comparable experience
• Postgraduate Management development/qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Work 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.
• Provide authoritative specialist advice, undertake complex risk assessments, oversee assurance arrangements and support the identification, mitigation and escalation of significant infection prevention risks.
• Lead 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.
• Represent the IPC service at senior internal and external forums and contribute to executive and Board-level reporting and assurance processes.
• Provide professional leadership to staff within your portfolio, build effective partnerships across organisational boundaries and drive continuous improvement in infection prevention practice.

Skills

Senior IPC leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Strategic thinking

Quality systems

Education

Formal postgraduate IPC qualification

Master’s level education

Job description

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

This is a rare 24-month fixed-term opportunity to lead one of the most complex and high-profile built environment IPC portfolios in the NHS.

Working closely with the Director and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control, you will provide strategic leadership and expert oversight across a broad portfolio including healthcare redevelopment programmes, capital projects, water safety, ventilation, decontamination, environmental risk management and estates-related infection prevention assurance.

As a senior member of the IPC leadership team, you will influence decision-making at site, divisional, executive and Board level, ensuring infection prevention principles are embedded within service transformation, healthcare infrastructure and operational planning.

We are looking for a registered healthcare professional with substantial senior-level IPC experience, strong leadership skills and a proven ability to manage complex risks, influence stakeholders and deliver improvement across organisational boundaries.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of built environment IPC within one of the UK's leading academic health science centres while contributing to innovation, education, research and service excellence.

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main 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

Essential criteria

• Registered healthcare professional with a statutory regulator e.g. GMC, NMC, GPhC etc.
• Formal postgraduate qualification in IPC
• Educated to master’s level, working towards this or comparable experience
• Postgraduate Management development/qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable criteria

• PhD/Professional Doctorate or study at this level
• Professional publications PRINCE or other Project/Programme management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• 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
• Significant IPC experience
• Extensive experience of implementing quality systems and benchmarking

Desirable criteria

• 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

Right to work

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Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.