Inpatient Care Matron & Infection Control Lead

NHS Jobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 66,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a role to ensure staffing aligns with patient needs and empower nurses to extend clinical tasks, while driving infection control and maintaining a clean, safe patient environment. The post involves close interaction with patients, relatives and staff to provide timely assistance and support.

The role also includes liaising with PALS and SUCAG, developing systems to support relatives and carers, and leading IPC policy implementation within

Responsibilities

• Ensuring staffing is appropriate to patient needs
• Empowering nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Improving hospital cleanliness
• Ensuring and improving the patient environment
• Resolving problems for patients and their relatives by building closer relationships
• To be visible and accessible to patients, relatives and staff in order to provide immediate assistance, advice and support
• Liaison with PALS to participate in community meetings as required. To set up opportunities to enable patients/SU to discuss issues of concern.
• Support the development of systems to support relatives and carers. Attend Service Users Advisory Groups (SUCAG) as required.
• Preventing hospital-acquired infection
• Take the lead on infection control policy implementation and represent the Directorate in IPC strategy meetings

Job description

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a role to ensure staffing aligns with patient needs and empower nurses to extend clinical tasks, while driving infection control and maintaining a clean, safe patient environment. The post involves close interaction with patients, relatives and staff to provide timely assistance and support.

The role also includes liaising with PALS and SUCAG, developing systems to support relatives and carers, and leading IPC policy implementation within