Job summary
Join us and lead the fight for patient safety!
Are you passionate about protecting patients, driving high standards of care and influencing real change? Were looking for an enthusiastic and experienced IPC Nurse to take the lead in delivering our hospitals Infection Prevention & Control programme.
In this pivotal role, you will use your expertise to identify infection risks, shape policy, drive improvement, and ensure our hospital remains safe for patients, staff and visitors.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Demonstrate leadership and clinical
advice in relation to the key dimensions of IPC responsibilities, providing
assurance to the Clinical Governance Lead and the Director of Infection
Prevention & Control (DIPC) that IPC processes are being effectively
delivered.
Working with the Clinical Governance
Lead, DIPC and relevant service leads, will be responsible for the developing
and leading the implementation of the Hospital IPC work plan, providing
assurance to the DIPC that all milestones are being met.
Ensure departmental IPC risk
assessments are in place reflecting controls that are effective, reviewed minimum
of annually.
Provide expert advice around IPC
issues placing emphasis on the integration of IPC to organisational strategy
and service development to achieve consistently high-quality care and patient
safety in relation to IPC practices and standards.
Ensure that IPC policies are designed
and kept up to date and reviewed in accordance with best practice guidance and
relevant regulatory standards, including undertaking audits to demonstrate
compliance.
Demonstrate sound awareness of
regulatory and national requirements taking appropriate action to ensure that
these are fully adhered to.
Manage IPC related incidents,
including reporting, investigating and sharing learning.
Coordinate the hospitals IPC link
nurses/practitioners, ensuring active participation in activities supporting
surveillance, audit and training.
About us
At Benenden Hospital we put patients at the heart of everything
we do. We attract kind, compassionate, and talented people to our
ultra-modernprivate hospital, which opened in 1907 and has been rated as
Outstanding by the CQC.We hold JAG accreditation for Endoscopy and have a
beautiful setting in the middle of the Kent countryside.
Benenden Hospital offers excellent working conditions and
facilities. We promote flexible working and a healthy work/life balance.
We are committed to professional development and have excellent training
and education facilities. We work hard to make sure that everyone at
Benenden Hospital feels involved and shares our values and vision for the
future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Purpose: The
IPC Lead Nurse/Practitioner is responsible for preparing and delivering the hospitals
local IPC programme. Including the
identification of IPC risks to the hospital, its patients and staff and the
implementation and monitoring of actions to identify, manage and reduce risks.
The post holder will:
Demonstrate leadership and clinical
advice in relation to the key dimensions of IPC responsibilities, providing
assurance to the Clinical Governance Lead and the Director of Infection
Prevention & Control (DIPC) that IPC processes are being effectively
delivered.
Working with the Clinical Governance
Lead, DIPC and relevant service leads, will be responsible for the developing
and leading the implementation of the Hospital IPC work plan, providing
assurance to the DIPC that all milestones are being met.
Ensure departmental IPC risk
assessments are in place reflecting controls that are effective, reviewed minimum
of annually.
Provide expert advice around IPC
issues placing emphasis on the integration of IPC to organisational strategy
and service development to achieve consistently high-quality care and patient
safety in relation to IPC practices and standards.
Ensure that IPC policies are designed
and kept up to date and reviewed in accordance with best practice guidance and
relevant regulatory standards, including undertaking audits to demonstrate
compliance.
Demonstrate sound awareness of
regulatory and national requirements taking appropriate action to ensure that
these are fully adhered to.
Manage IPC related incidents,
including reporting, investigating and sharing learning.
Coordinate the hospitals IPC link
nurses/practitioners, ensuring active participation in activities supporting
surveillance, audit and training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Purpose: The
IPC Lead Nurse/Practitioner is responsible for preparing and delivering the hospitals
local IPC programme. Including the
identification of IPC risks to the hospital, its patients and staff and the
implementation and monitoring of actions to identify, manage and reduce risks.
The post holder will:
Demonstrate leadership and clinical
advice in relation to the key dimensions of IPC responsibilities, providing
assurance to the Clinical Governance Lead and the Director of Infection
Prevention & Control (DIPC) that IPC processes are being effectively
delivered.
Working with the Clinical Governance
Lead, DIPC and relevant service leads, will be responsible for the developing
and leading the implementation of the Hospital IPC work plan, providing
assurance to the DIPC that all milestones are being met.
Ensure departmental IPC risk
assessments are in place reflecting controls that are effective, reviewed minimum
of annually.
Provide expert advice around IPC
issues placing emphasis on the integration of IPC to organisational strategy
and service development to achieve consistently high-quality care and patient
safety in relation to IPC practices and standards.
Ensure that IPC policies are designed
and kept up to date and reviewed in accordance with best practice guidance and
relevant regulatory standards, including undertaking audits to demonstrate
compliance.
Demonstrate sound awareness of
regulatory and national requirements taking appropriate action to ensure that
these are fully adhered to.
Manage IPC related incidents,
including reporting, investigating and sharing learning.
Coordinate the hospitals IPC link
nurses/practitioners, ensuring active participation in activities supporting
surveillance, audit and training.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration (i.e. NMC, HCPC, GPhC)
- Relevant post-registration experience / qualification in IPC
- Educated to degree level
- Teaching/Mentoring qualification
- Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff/colleagues at all levels (internal & external)
- Ability to provide specialist IPC knowledge to risk assessments and support appropriate controls
- Ability to manage difficult and complex situations
- Ability to provide/support staff in feedback of microbiological results
- Excellent IT skills, i.e., Datix, Microsoft Office and other applications relevant to the role.
- Methodical and well organised with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to analyse complex data and prepare accurate reports/action plans
- Ability to design, complete and report audits
- Ability to progress own workload, managing competing demands effectively.
- Effective verbal and written communication using tact, discretion, and diplomacy
- Strong patient-centred approach
- Ability to present information/data effectively in a variety of ways (oral, written, digital)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration (i.e. NMC, HCPC, GPhC)
- Relevant post-registration experience / qualification in IPC
- Educated to degree level
- Teaching/Mentoring qualification
- Ability to negotiate, influence and liaise effectively with staff/colleagues at all levels (internal & external)
- Ability to provide specialist IPC knowledge to risk assessments and support appropriate controls
- Ability to manage difficult and complex situations
- Ability to provide/support staff in feedback of microbiological results
- Excellent IT skills, i.e., Datix, Microsoft Office and other applications relevant to the role.
- Methodical and well organised with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to analyse complex data and prepare accurate reports/action plans
- Ability to design, complete and report audits
- Ability to progress own workload, managing competing demands effectively.
- Effective verbal and written communication using tact, discretion, and diplomacy
- Strong patient-centred approach
- Ability to present information/data effectively in a variety of ways (oral, written, digital)
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
