Nurse Consultant Infection Prevention and Control Specialist
1 day ago
We are seeking an experienced and skilled Nurse Consultant to join our team as an Infection Prevention and Control Specialist. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and developing our infection prevention and control services, ensuring that we provide high-quality care to our patients and meet the latest national and local standards.
Key Responsibilities- To lead and develop the infection prevention and control service, ensuring that it is aligned with the Trust's strategic aims and national requirements.
- To provide clinical leadership and oversight to the infection prevention and control team, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver high-quality care.
- To develop and implement infection prevention and control policies and guidelines, ensuring that they are aligned with current legislation and best practice.
- To work closely with operational staff across the localities to facilitate the delivery of safe practice and governance requirements.
- To be the Trust's decontamination lead, ensuring that all responsibilities around this are maintained, including policy, audit, education, and compliance against standards.
- To support and ensure the Trust remains compliant with the Health and Social Care Act, 2015: Code of Practice on the Prevention and Control of Infections, and registered with no restrictions with the Care Quality Commission.
- To advise and assist during major outbreaks, ensuring that Gold, Silver, and Bronze are provided with timely advice and information to manage the situation.
- To develop training strategies, ensuring their rollout to localities and implementation.
- To lead continuous improvement of infection prevention and control processes and systems, including rollout to Localities and monitoring their implementation.
- To monitor and evaluate the contribution made by all NELFT service staff to infection prevention and control.
- To provide day-to-day clinical leadership to the infection prevention and control team and provide expert advice on all matters relating to infection prevention and control.
- To support the lead nurse in managing the infection prevention and control service for NELFT on a day-to-day basis.
- To manage the infection prevention and control service budget, ensuring that best value for money and most efficient use of resources is assured.
- To support the Associate Director, Quality & Patient Safety in the annual planning and review process.
- To ensure smooth collaborative working in infection prevention and control with partners in the local health economies, neighbouring Trusts, the Health Protection Teams, Commissioners, and Local Authorities.
- To maintain effective communications between acute providers' infection prevention and control teams, NELFT Localities, and other corporate directorates within NELFT.
- To provide specialist advice around dental infection prevention, dental infection control, and audit these services.
- To work closely with Estates to ensure Capital is spent in line with HTMs, HBNs, COPs, and sign off refurbishment, maintenance, and new build projects for IPC.
- To work closely with procurement and facilities departments to ensure IPC is given due regard when purchasing and commissioning services for NELFT.
- To provide mentoring and coaching to the team and in particular developmental posts to ensure they continue to learn and develop.
- To design, deliver, and evaluate teaching sessions, conference speaking on IPC, providing Continuing Professional Development for medical and dental staff.
- To work with Pharmacy to ensure the national antimicrobial agenda is progressed locally.
- To provide expert advice and recommendations when there are cases of raised levels of Legionella species in water supplies.
- To undertake any other duties as deemed relevant by the line manager.
- To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the trust.
- To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
- To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
- To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
- To advise, encourage, and share knowledge utilizing the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.
- To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
- To be responsible and accountable for service delivery to clients/patients.
- To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions.
- To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
- To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
- To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
- To be computer literate and encourage implementation of the Trust's IM&T Strategy.
- To ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patients' records, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
- To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the trust.
- To be able to communicate complex patient-related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
- To participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identifies improvements to service provision.
- To act as mentor to students, providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of nursing care.
- To ensure students are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
- To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
- To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
- To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
- To support new staff and their integration within the team.
- To support training as part of the role, including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system.
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