Band 7 Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We seek to appoint a dynamic, motivated and enthusiastic Registered Nurse to become a Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse for our University Hospitals of Birmingham Team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to the quality of care and improve outcomes for patients.

A Registered Nurse with a recognised infection prevention and control qualification and experience of working in Infection Prevention and control. You will have current significant experience in improving practice in infection prevention and control within a health care setting, experience of delivering education to colleagues and be able to demonstrate your commitment to continual professional development.

As part of a responsive team, you will be a strong role model for infection prevention and control and with support of the lead nurse team develop more junior colleagues, provide advice for health care services within UHB. Working autonomously, you will inspire and influence staff, empowering them to ensure that all infection prevention and control policies and procedures are fulfilled and evidenced based and support in making local improvements.

The role involves providing evidence-based advice on all aspects of infection prevention and control and supporting local investigations. Excellent communication skills are essential for promoting standards of infection prevention and control.

If this is you and you want to be part of a proactive team, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job involve providing specialist infection control nursing advice to patients and staff. You will be a point of contact for information and advice for the patient, family and carers and all staff involved in the care of patients.

You will be required support the development of staff through formal and informal education, practice development and role modelling.

As a Senior IPCN you will practice under the direction of the Lead nurse team, working at agreed levels of competence, skills and knowledge to enable independent autonomous practice within your scope of clinical practice.

You will need to have good time management skills be able to undertake a number of duties autonomously as well as working with in a large team. Good communication skills are essential.

In in conjunction with other relevant clinical staff the post holder will assist with clinical development in maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence based practice and quality assurance and monitoring within the service.

In the role you will need to use a range of techniques to ensure and monitor standards of infection prevention and control are met. Through clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience.

The infection prevention and control team are there to ensure safe and effective clinical practice, enhance patient experience and ensure effective delivery of organisational objectives.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Date posted

20 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

304-1073296YS1

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note*: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note*: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or midwife on the NMC Register.
BSC/1ST degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training or experience at Level 6 FHEQ
Professional knowledge acquired at Masters level supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to degree/Masters Level, FHEQ Level 6/7 equivalent
Post registration qualification in infection control

Experience

Essential

Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
Significant experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality
Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/competence.
Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
Experience in service development
Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
Experience of patient service user advocacy role
Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess,plan , implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to
patients / relatives/ care staff
Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
Has understanding/experience of the principles of Safeguarding
Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or midwife on the NMC Register.
BSC/1ST degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training or experience at Level 6 FHEQ
Professional knowledge acquired at Masters level supplemented by specialist training, experience and short courses to degree/Masters Level, FHEQ Level 6/7 equivalent
Post registration qualification in infection control

Experience

Essential

Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
Significant experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at B6 or above in defined or associated speciality
Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/competence.
Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
Experience in service development
Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
Experience of patient service user advocacy role
Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess,plan , implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to
patients / relatives/ care staff
Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality
Has understanding/experience of the principles of Safeguarding
Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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