Infection Prevention and Control Nurse

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking an Infection Prevention and Control Nurse to ensure high standards in infection prevention and control. Responsibilities include advising staff, training, and participating in infection response. Candidates must have a professional nursing qualification and a strong foundation in infection control practices. The role offers opportunities for professional development and recognizes staff contributions.

Benefits

Health and well-being initiatives

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Maintain personal and professional development to meet job demands.
• Recognize personal strengths and weaknesses to enhance performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a specialist adviser on infection prevention and control.
• Deliver formal and informal infection prevention training.
• Assist in investigations of infection outbreaks.

Skills

Infection prevention expertise

Teamwork

Education delivery

Education

Professional nursing qualification

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Overview

To provide infection prevention and control nursing services and expert advice in North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice in the prevention, surveillance and investigation of infection. To provide infection prevention and control advice as specified in Service Level Agreements. Work as part of a team with the infection prevention and control nursing staff, Infection Control Doctor and Microbiology staff, and liaise with external agencies and partners as required. Provide an information flow to Senior Clinical Matrons, Heads of Service, General managers and Clinical Directors as required. Work as part of a team providing support for an assigned directorate. Be required to work with all staff and patients and be confident to professionally challenge poor practice at times. Represent the trust externally to share good practice and competently report back to the trust.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience. We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards. We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. We recruit for values and Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool.

Responsibilities

• Act as a specialist adviser to all staff in matters relating to infection prevention and control.
• Liaise and agree action with all necessary staff in the event of an outbreak of infection.
• Assist in the investigation of outbreaks of infection with specific reference to source, mode of spread and means of control, and to implement plan for containment and prevention of further spread.
• Contribute to the IPCT clinical audit programme to continuously evaluate clinical procedures to ensure compliance with agreed infection prevention and control measures, recommending change when necessary to reduce risk trust wide, including implementation of research and recent validated advances in infection prevention and control.
• Identify and provide information and specialist education appropriate to need for different staff groups.
• Represent the Infection Prevention and Control Team on relevant committees, working groups etc and provide active membership and appropriate specialist input.
• Participate in the production of infection prevention and control reports as necessary.
• Deliver formal and informal IPC training to a wide range of staff in different settings.
• Requirement to travel to different sites, as necessary.
• Provide counselling and/or information to patients, carers and staff on infection prevention and control measures relevant to their individual needs.
• Participate in the formulation and review of policies and guidelines for the prevention and control of infection.
• Contribute to QI projects and initiatives to improve IPC practice.
• Have an awareness of the Trust financial position and work efficiently and effectively to contribute to budgets.
• Act as a practice supervisor to students attached to the department as part of their training.
• Support junior members of the team.
• Conduct appraisals as required.
• Maintain accurate records.
• Proficient on Microsoft packages such as Word and Excel.
• Ensuring all relevant logs are kept up to date.
• Contribute to the IPCT clinical audit programme.
• Required to work autonomously, prioritise own workload, manage own diary, with supervision and guidance available from the IPC team, IPC matron and IPC lead nurse.

Qualifications and Requirements

Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities. Participate in review of own performance regularly and development of personal development plan at least every 12 months. Take responsibility for own actions. Recognise own personal strengths and weaknesses and identify appropriate strategies to enhance the strengths and overcome or minimise the weaknesses. Apply personal effectiveness skills in terms of time management, prioritisation, resource management, self-motivation and team work. Translate these duties to travel to different sites, as necessary.

Contact and Additional Information

Participate in the formulation and review of policies and guidelines for the prevention and control of infection. Contribute to QI projects and initiatives to improve IPC practice. LNKD1_UKTJ