Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to job description, personal specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse - diploma / degree level nursing qualification
- Educated to Degree level in relevant clinical speciality or equivalent combination of post graduate diploma, courses and experience
- Teaching and/or mentoring qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Specialist training to degree / post-graduate diploma level in Infection Control / Health Protection
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 2 years at band 6 in infection prevention and control nursing
- Evidence of leadership and change management experience
- Experience in the clinical setting in carrying out audit, surveillance and delivering teaching packages
- Experience in implementing infection prevention and control policy
- Comprehensive clinical experience (minimum of 5 years post qualification), with knowledge of management of invasive and medical devices and related clinical procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience in community healthcare
- Experience in leading a project
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of infection prevention across different care settings and disciplines
- Leadership skills
- Able to assess, teach and demonstrate clinical procedures, such as aseptic non touch technique, taking of nose, throat and wound swabs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal verbal and non-verbal skills
- Able to build effective working relationships
- Able to communicate complex and/or sensitive information to patients and staff, where there may be barriers to acceptance
- Able to assess and interpret information, e.g. microbiological results, assess risk and apply advice to local situation
- Computer literate, word processing, spread sheet, presentation and data skills
- Able to provide training and education
- Able to cope with unpredictable work pattern and to work under pressure
- Able to plan workload and set priorities according to the needs of the service and annual work programme
- Able to be accountable for own professional practice and work autonomously
- Able to undertake clinical audit and surveillance
- Able to undertake clinical audit and surveillance
- Awareness of own limitations, ability to assess and filter information and escalate as needed
Desirable criteria
- Project management
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Capacity to handle conflict and remain calm under pressure
- Highly motivated and resourceful
- Resilient and able to manage self
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Able to provide evidence of where you have demonstrated the Trust's Values and Behaviours
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
"We work Flexibly"
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- Senior IPC Nurse (PDF, 544.3KB)
- CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)