Infection Prevention Control Associate

4 days ago

London, United Kingdom Whittington Health NHS Trust Full time

We have an opportunity for you to come & joinour busy Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) service. We are looking for self-motivated and enthusiastic people, appropriate training will be given dependent upon previous knowledge and experience. You must be able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team and have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills. As part of our busy team you will play your part of delivering excellent supportive clinical care through Clinical Audit and Surveillance. Playing a vital role in providing assurance of effectiveness and highlighting areas for improvement keeping our staff and patients safe. This is a patient facing role, in the clinical environment workingacross the organisation in both acute and community settings. Motivation and a good awareness of the concepts of clinical audit and its effectiveness is key.

The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Associate will work as part of the Infection Prevention and Control team, undertaking routine IPC related audits to monitor standards of IPC practice across the Integrated Care Organisation (ICO). The post holder will report findings to senior IPC staff, working closely with the education team to improve practices

The post holder will assist the Surveillance/Data Analyst with the collection of data for the UKHSA Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Service.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
- Work closely and with the support of the IPC educational team to ensure:

- IPC clinical and environment audit including surgical site infection surveillance.
- Coordinate the planning and delivery of IPC audit provision, including setting up an annual audit schedule and the development of processes to undertake audits across the ICO.
- Monitor compliance with IPC policies through audit.
- Undertake accurate data entry on several platforms including MS Excel and Tendable.
- With the supervision of the Surveillance/Data Analyst, create reports to present audit findings visually using charts/graphs, and feedback any urgent findings to IPC nursing staff.
- Feedback findings of audits to clinical areas, highlighting good practice as well as areas for improvement with action plan and recommendations.
- Communicate effectively with patients and clinical staff regarding the purpose of audits taking place, understanding and complying if the time of audit is not convenient and rescheduling appropriately.

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