Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Nurse to join our proactive, dynamic and highly regarded IPC team. We are a small but influential service with a strong profile across the Trust, supporting safe, high-quality care at our King's Mill, Newark and Mansfield sites.
Preventing healthcare-associated infections remains a top priority both within the Trust and nationally. Your work will directly contribute to safer environments for patients, visitors and staff.
Key Responsibilities:
- Clinical infection support -- Provide clinical advice and support on all infection-related issues to staff across the Trust.
- IPC fundamentals -- Deliver guidance on core infection prevention and control practices, supported by the wider IPC team.
- Shared caseload -- Work collaboratively with IPC Nurses/Practitioners to manage the infection control workload.
- Designated areas & audits -- Take responsibility for specific clinical areas and audit programmes within the IPC service.
- Policy adherence -- Ensure IPC policies are current, implemented effectively and monitored through regular auditing.
If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in a role with visibility, variety and purpose, we'd be delighted to receive your application.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of NMC Codes of conduct and/or guidelines of professional practice
- Awareness of broader issues within the NHS
- Experience in teaching and presenting
- Ability to motivate and develop staff within the team
- Ability to work across professional teams and organisational boundaries
- Ability to delegate and prioritise
- An awareness of the local and national infection prevention and control agenda e.g. Health Act, Infection related targets Understanding of clinical governance and its application to practice
- Post registration nursing experience
- Awareness of national infection prevention and control issues e.g. Hygiene Code, Saving Lives
- Excellent clinical skills and has the ability to implement these in practice and is able to impart knowledge to all grades of staff
- Up to date and evidenced based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Clinically credible and competent
Desirable
- Managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- Experienced mentor
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered General Nurse (level 1) Degree level, with significant post-registration experience
- Either working towards or willing to work towards a recognised qualification in Infection Prevention and Control
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- First degree level
- Evidence of managerial development
- A teaching qualification e.g. ENB 998
Further Training
Desirable
- Infection Prevention Course
Experience
Essential
- Significant post registered experience within an Acute Hospital
Desirable
- Evidence of an interest in infection prevention and Control i.e. link worker
- Experience with Audit
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Ability to do on-call
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to travel between sites
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Rd
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
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