Clinical Nurse Specialist
5 days ago
Clinical responsibilities: Produce and maintain surveillance information on new MRSA and Clostridium difficile isolates, GNBSI organisms, other mandatory surveillance system pathogens, notifiable infections, ensuring reporting is prompt and within agreed time deadlines i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly. Lead on representing IPC at MDTs, incident meetings, outbreaks along with divisional colleagues, utilise this data against infection data and develop prevention strategies with the Governance lead, represent at national networks. Work under the direction of but without supervision of the Matron Infection Prevention and Control (MIPC), to ensure health care associated infections data is kept, be involved in the analysis and reporting to relevant teams In line with national mandatory targets and reporting requirements, assist and work closely with IPCSC, Matron, in production of graphs and charts towards the preparation and provision of reporting of MRSA, Clostridium difficile, and GNBSI rates to UKHSA, and internal reports to Infection Prevention and Control Committee, Quality Committee, development of report writing skills, & cross cover with the Matron IPC to develop draft reports, contributing to the accurate data, and drawing on themes, trends around patient safety, clinical effectiveness and clinical quality. Utilise the Trust software such as Datix to record, and pull out incident information, actions, bring these to closure.
Collate all the relevant information from a variety of sources to enable accurate and timely submissions of data in accordance with national mandatory targets. Lead in delivering an annual schedule for the various audit programmes undertaken. This includes environmental/clinical practice audits. Undertake follow up actions as directed post audit/ site visits.
Input data from completed audits and prepare accurate draft reports. Distribute completed audits to the relevant Divisional Leads, and Departments/Wards filing these and related evidence. Represent the team at webinars and local learning exercises and events; CBRN tests, EPRR drills, Kent and Medway ICB meetings, conferences. Please see attached job description for further information.
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