Community Infection Control and Prevention Nurse

Job summary

Fixed term or secondment opportunity (2 years)

Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Sheffield) Community Infection and Prevention Control Service (2 year pilot)

Funded by Sheffield City Council (SCC) and hosted by the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (SYICB), this is a new community IPC service ( WTE Band 6 and x1 WTE Band 3 Admin that has been developed to support Care Homes, Domiciliary Care, Extras Care & Supported Living, Short Break Homes, supported accommodation for vulnerable people (, homeless and asylum seeker settings), to improve IPC Practice.

To ensure that South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, Sheffield (SYICB), in partnership with the Sheffield City Council, delivers its responsibilities in gaining assurance and supporting the improvement of infection control practice in a range of community-based settings, in relation to surveillance, control of infection and reducing Healthcare Acquired Infections (HCAI) in the community.

The service is primarily advisory; therefore the principle point of access will be through telephone and email contact, initiated by either the CIPC team or community care provider.

Objective of the service:

To support care providers to develop appropriate IPC policies and procedures for their own settings, and also support providers to develop IPC training for their staff. The CIPC team will support and promote the development of IPC link partners within care settings in order to support this work.

Main duties of the job

Provide access to basic (as a minimum) IPC training Provide access to clear, setting-specific guidance including national campaigns (including antibiotic awareness week and world hand hygiene day) Provide reactive support in an outbreak Contribute to local surveillance Provide advice on setting-specific IPC practice Support a providers ability to self-audit IPC practice within own setting, and receive an in-person audit should the IPC nurses deem it necessary Provide clinical advice on an ad hoc basis in relation to alert organisms and multi-drug resistant organisms Support with discharge from acute settings Develop an IPC link programme in Sheffield

The service will operate 5 days per week Monday to Friday with core hours of 9am to 5pm.

Led by two Band 7 experienced IPC Nurses, the RGNs and 1 WTE Administrative Support would provide IPC guidance and advice to the identified community settings.

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About us

NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees healthand social care for a population of people. Working through our four places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on thestrengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our localcommunities to deliver our four key aims of Improving outcomes inpopulation health and healthcare; Tackling inequalities in outcomes, experienceand access; Enhancing productivity and value for money; and Helping the NHSsupport broader social and economic development.

Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broaderhealth, public health, and social care needs of the population across SouthYorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with theIntegrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the SouthYorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and careservices that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GPpractices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals workingacross seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We workalongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSEpartners and other partners to address health inequalities and widerdeterminants of health in South Yorkshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assist health and social care professionals and carers to comply and maintain compliance with the Health and Social Care Act and Code of Practice on the prevention of infection via the following:

Advisory and Support the community IPC Service will:

Provide specialised and bespoke IPC advice to provide support to Care Homes/ Domiciliary Care, Supported Living & Extra Care/Short Break Homes/Places of supported accommodation for vulnerable people (, Homeless and asylum seeker settings)/ Special Schools/ Nurseries/Childrens homes/. Support settings to comply with IPC national requirements, by providing specialist IPC advice and support (but not general outbreak management support, for example norovirus, influenza). Provide clinical advice on an ad hoc basis in relation to alert organisms and multi-drug resistant organisms to providers. Facilitate safe discharge from acute settings to the community by providing specialist advice and support to providers and working in collaboration with colleagues in Acute Settings. Visit settings to provide support where a concern has been identified by either SY ICB, SCC colleagues or the CQC. Outbreak Management Support In collaboration with the UKHSA Health Protection Team provide outbreak management support for specific alert organisms, for example C.difficile, MRSA, Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales (CPE) and assess what additional support may be required. Undertake local surveillance (in relation to outbreak management support) in conjunction with UKHSA colleagues. To implement the actions needed to control the spread of communicable disease and to assist the UKHSA Health Protection Team in the investigation and management of a major outbreak within the SYICB area.

Training and Guidance

To support the development and delivery of training packages to community providers with the aim to embed IPC knowledge and improve practices within services. To plan and organise IPC training and deliver to settings and evaluate the effect. Adapt these packages as required in line with the evaluation. Develop to clear, setting-specific guidance for settings and promote national campaigns (including antibiotic awareness week and world hand hygiene day) Plan and organise an IPC link programme in community settings in Sheffield. Implement policies and propose changes to IPC practices which will improve the service and the client outcome.

Audit

To support the development of an IPC audit programme with an aim to support to develop providers to undertake a credible-self assessment audit in the long term. To undertake a face-to-face audit where a need has been identified and communicate the findings in a motivational way to support improvement within the setting. Communication and Collaboration Provide and receive information requiring you to give specialist advice whilst addressing barriers and dealing with conflict in an understanding in a sensitive manner. Facilitate effective working relationships with colleagues in community settings and related stakeholders and communicate sensitive information in an empathetic and understanding way and provide guidance and training where barriers to understanding are identified. Escalate concerns and report serious incidents associated with infection to appropriate colleagues in SCC and to the SY ICB (Sheffield). Compile accurate reports containing sensitive information in relation to IPC in community settings. To liaise with other IPC Practitioners in NHS Northeast Region and participate in South Yorkshire Infection Control Networks. Internal Working Relationships (at Sheffield Place Level): Lead Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Senior Quality Managers Quality Team Quality in Care Homes Team Chief Nurse Deputy Chief Nurse Deputy Chief Nurse SYICB, Director of Nursing (Sheffield and Barnsley. Account Managers Medicines Optimization Management Team Communications Team Complaints Team Finance and Procurement Teams Lead Professionals for Safeguarding External Working Relationships; Infection Prevention and Control Leads and Teams of Acute Trust Providers Infection Prevention and Control Leads of SYICB Places and other community organisations. Consultant Microbiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Director of Public Health and Public Health Representatives (SCC) UKHSA

Continued Professional Development

Participate in the annual appraisal process. Undertake professional and personal development as required. Be a member of the Infection Prevention Society Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

Essential

Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of the principles and theory of infection prevention and control and disease management. Knowledge and understanding of national policy and guidance in relation to infection prevention and control and disease management. Knowledge and experience of clinical audit and research. Skills in relation to promoting infection prevention and control and infectious disease management. Be fully literate and to be able to communicate clearly complex information verbally, in legible writing and electronically in appropriate formats. Participation in the delivery of teaching or education packages to patients, carers, or staff. Independently mobile.

Desirable

Experience of working within a community care setting. Participation in the development of policies and procedures. Knowledge of incident reporting and serious incidents in reference to infection prevention and control and infectious disease management. Computer and keyboard skills and proficient in the use of Microsoft/excel and PowerPoint packages.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

Clinical experience of infection prevention and control, and infectious disease management. Substantial nursing background and experience. Experience of delivering instructional, educational teaching and training programs. Able to manage own workload. Experience developing and managing audit activity including reporting, development of action plans and follow up. Evidence of inter-team and interagency working.

Attributes

Essential

Ability to work alone and a part of a team, including willingness to assist other members of the Community Infection Prevention and Control Team (CIPC) as required. Ability to work calmly and effectively when under pressure. Ability to organise time to meet competing priorities. Recognise your own limitations and ask for help when required. Excellent communication skills both written and oral and the ability to communicate complex information in a sensitive way. Conflict management skills.

Qualifications

Essential

First level Registered Nurse Adult (RNA) or Registered General Nurse (RGN) with current NMC registration and eligible to practice. BSc Nursing, Infection Prevention and Control or post-registration specialist course at BSc level or equivalent. Post-registration teaching and assessing qualification (, Mentorship, ENB 998 or City and Guilds 730). Post-registration qualification in infection prevention and control and/or infectious disease management. Evidence of continual professional learning and development.

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