Lead for Infection Prevention

1 week ago


Chesterfield, United Kingdom Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an experienced senior infection control professional to take on the leadership and operational responsibility for the activity of the infection prevention and control team. The post holder will support the Director of Infection Prevention and Control (Chief Nurse) to deliver high quality proactive infection prevention and control services.

You will require energy, motivation, and an ability to communicate with patients, their families and staff at all levels. The ability to develop effective working relationships and influence all members of the multidisciplinary teams is paramount to this rewarding role.

This post offers you the opportunity to contribute fully to wide-ranging infection prevention and control activities within Chesterfield Royal Hospital, supporting our Primary Care locations and wider service level agreement with community Care Homes and TB service.

This is a highly specialist role supporting the Trust's Infection Prevention and Control agenda, working proactively to ensure that the Trust meets the statutory requirements for IPC and aligns our practice with evidence based guidance.

You must have the ability to work on your own initiative, providing effective infection control leadership across the organisation. You must have commitment to influence change and drive progress in the challenging and changing specialty of infection prevention and control.

Provide a proactive approach to prevention, surveillance, investigation, and control of infection. This will include the review, formulation, implementation and education of evidence based infection control practices.

The post holder will manage the existing Infection Prevention & Control team, providing clinical and professional leadership, ensuring the service meets the needs of the organisation.

The post holder is responsible in collaboration with the DIPC for ensuring that all, regular reports are prepared and submitted within the agreed timescales. This includes submission and verification of specific data related to HCAI's for internal and external use.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an acute Trust providing healthcare and community services for more than 400,000 people across Derbyshire.

We employ more than 4,500 colleagues across Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Primary Care and DSFS (Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services) and we also have some fantastic volunteers supporting our services.

We are proud of our recent feedback in the latest national NHS Staff Survey where 67.8% of colleagues recommended #TeamCRH as a place to work, and 70.4% told us they would be happy with the standard of care provided should their friend or relative need it.

We are a stable and well-performing organisation, with ambitious plans for the future. We were last inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as a whole Trust, including Royal Primary Care, in 2020. Overall, the Trust received a rating of ‘Good’.

Our maternity services received a ‘Good’ rating from the CQC in the Safe and Well-led domains earlier this year and we are delighted to be among the best performing Trusts nationally in recent CQC patient experience surveys about inpatient care and for our urgent and emergency services.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the full duties and responsibilities of the role.



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