Infection Prevention Control Specialist Nurse

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) service has an exciting opportunity for both an experienced or a development opportunity to become a Specialist Infection Prevention and Control Nurse and join the team. The Specialist IPC Nurse role is vital in providing the IPC service.

You'll be using your knowledge and expertise of IPC as a Registered Nurse to provide care, advise, implement and evaluate standards of practice in relation to IPC, and

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model, highly motivated, well organised and able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Provide IPC knowledge to advise, implement and evaluate standards of practice in relation to IPC.
• Collaborate with the Senior and Lead IPC Nurse and the Group Deputy Director for Infection Prevention and Control.

Job description

Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Foundation NHS Trust Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) service has an exciting opportunity for both an experienced or a development opportunity to become a Specialist Infection Prevention and Control Nurse and join the team.

The Specialist IPC Nurse role is vital in providing the IPC service. You'll be using your knowledge and expertise of IPC as a Registered Nurse to provide care, advise, implement and evaluate standards of practice in relation to IPC, and share your knowledge base with the team and wider organisation, whilst working in conjunction with the Senior and Lead IPC Nurse and the Group Deputy Director for Infection Prevention and Control.

Main duties of the job

You will act as a role model and demonstrate that you are highly motivated, enthusiastic, well organised and are able to work independently and as part of a team and wider organisation. You will require effective communication skills and partnership working within the Trust and with other wider agencies and organisations in this role.

The team offer a supportive environment where you will be able to continue to develop both personally and professionally. This post would be suitable for a person with extensive post registration experience and a specialist interest in infection prevention and control, recent acute experience would be beneficial.

Current hours of work are 8.30-4.30 Monday-Friday, with a regular on-call including all Bank Holidays; and the post is based between ALL the Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole and North Lincolnshire Community Hospital Trust sites.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.