Infection Prevention Control and Sepsis Practitioner

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Coventry is seeking an Infection Prevention Control and Sepsis Practitioner. This role involves supporting the infection control team, advocating for patients, and ensuring adherence to clinical standards. The successful candidate will have a relevant healthcare background, strong communication skills, and experience with infection prevention. Join a dedicated team in a prestigious trust committed to high-quality patient care within a nurturing environment.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Able to make informed decisions within professional practice.
• Experience in infection prevention and control.
• Capability to advise on clinical governance and policy adherence.

Responsibilities

• Support the IPC Team in reducing healthcare associated infections.
• Advocate for patients ensuring care reflects clinical standards.
• Act as a specialist advisor on IPC and sepsis.
• Manage clinical workload and advise on isolation procedures.
• Identify clinical and non-clinical issues and implement solutions.
• Participate in training and educate staff on infection control.

Skills

Infection Prevention and Control

Strong communication skills

Patient advocacy

Data analysis

Outbreak management

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Infection Prevention Control and Sepsis Practitioner

The closing date is 19 December 2025

A specialist practitioner within the field of Infection Prevention Control and sepsis. Able to make informed decisions within their scope of professional practice, involving staff, patients and public, ensuring national standards and agreed objectives and targets are met. The role welcomes any healthcare worker background.

Secondment will be considered for internal candidates - If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.

Please be advised that the interviews for this post will take place week commencing 12/01/2025.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• To support and assist the IPC Team in providing a service to the Trust (across both sites) in reducing the incidence of healthcare associated infections. This will include the review, formulation, implementation and education of evidence based practices.
• The post holder will be a strong patient advocate, ensuring that the care of patients reflects best clinical standards and that all patients are treated with dignity and respect.
• Act as a specialist advisor to all grades and disciplines of staff in matters relating to IPC and sepsis.
• Explains the significance of microbiological reports, where relevant, to other staff and advises on isolation precautions and supervises the introduction and progress of such techniques in specific situation.
• Provide specialist advice on the planning of individual nursing care of patients with infectious conditions.
• Seeks early evidence of cross-infection, with a view to recommending immediate control measures, by correlating information from laboratories and clinical areas about the incidence and pathology of infection.
• Be proactive in the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant surveillance data.
• As part of the IPC team investigate outbreaks of infection within the Trust and put control measures in place. Identifies infection control risks in order to plan preventative measures with clinical teams.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

• A knowledgeable clinical practitioner supporting staff, service and policy development within a defined area/specialty.
• Effectively communicate information with key stakeholders to ensure maintenance of high standards of infection prevention and control across the organisation.
• A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
• Manage a daily clinical workload following up on known infected patients, advising on isolation of patients, treatments and alert organisms.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.
• Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including assessing and managing outbreak situations and ward closures.
• Participate in education and training of identified staff groups, link staff, patients and carers.
• Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available. Produce reports and utilise data to inform, predict and educate.
• Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort.
• Support patients, carers and staff during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. breaking bad news or following an unexpected event.
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details please see the attached job description.

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.

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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire