Health Protection Specialist

Job summary

Health Protection Specialist

Location: Carlisle

Salary: £47,181 to £48,226 Pro-rata per annum

Hours: 22.2 per week

Contract: Permanent

About this opportunity

The purpose of this post is to support the Public Health Manager (Health Protection) to take forward the Local Authoritys statutory responsibilities in relation to healthprotection, through the development, implementation and assurance of local health protection programmes for Cumberland Council, including community infection prevention and control, emergency planning, resilience and response (EPRR), and NHS immunisation and screening programmes

Who were looking for

Were seeking passionate and dedicated professionals who share our commitment to delivering outstanding care and embody our organisations core values: ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, and innovative. These values guide everything we do, helping us drive positive change, deliver excellent public services, and shape a better future for our communities.

To join us, youll need to be:

• ARegistered Nurse Level 1or another relevant qualified and registered healthcare professional.
• Holdcurrent NMC registration(or registration with another appropriate professional body)

We believe in potential over perfection. If youre eager to learn and grow, well support you to thrive in your role and develop your career.

Be sure to review the post specification below for the essential criteria for this position.

Main duties of the job

• To develop and deliver bespoke IPC training packages to compliment the IPC training programmes for social care providers across Cumberland.
• To develop and provide bespoke IPC audits & resource packages for social care providers across Cumberland.
• To provide specialist IPC advice and support to key NHS and social care providers across Cumberland in order to protect health, reduce communicable disease outbreaks and Health Care Acquired Infections (HCAIs).
• To provide IPC advice and support to incidents and outbreaks of communicable diseases across Cumberland (and in line with the arrangements contained within the Cumbria & Lancashire Outbreak Plan).
• To develop and deliver infection prevention and control (IPC) quality improvement initiatives with social care providers across Cumberland and in collaboration with key NHS and social care partners.
• To provide clinical services as and when required, e.g. testing & vaccinations to staff and during emergency situations.
• To assist the Public Health Manager (Health Protection) with other health protection duties, as required. These include, emergency planning, resilience and response (EPRR) responsibilities, oversight & assurance of the NHS vaccination & screening programmes and asylum seeker, refugee & evacuee (ASRE) Public Health health screening work.

About us

Cumberland Council isa unitary council responsible for all local authority services for the area of Cumberland, which covers an area of 3,012 square kilometres and has a population of 276,876.