Band 6 Practice Educator Infection Prevention and Control

Job overview

Band 6 Practice Educator Infection prevention and Control for Royal Free hospital

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Infection Prevention and Control Team (IPCT) - We are looking for enthusiastic, proactive, motivated and/or experienced infection prevention & control nurse to take up a post within our IPCT.

The post holder will base at Royal Free hospital which is part of the Royal Free London group.

This would be an ideal opportunity for a dynamic, confident, and highly motivated nurse wishing to further their career in a specialist and pivotal field within healthcare. It's an exciting time to join our friendly, proactive, productive and awarding winning team. The role is interesting and tasks include daily patient ward rounds, proactive advice giving to patients/staff/visitors, problem solving, undertaking audits, infection surveillance, outbreak management and teaching.

This post requires travelling to other trust premises and therefore candidates must be able to get around the trust sites in a timely and efficient manner. You must have enthusiasm to continue professional self-development and development of others. You will need to demonstrate your expertise and the contribution you can make to building a team, maintaining and improving trust infection rates and leading the trust forward as a centre of world class care.

Main duties of the job

Main activities

• contribute to annual IPC programme and work plan such as undertaking clinical skill competence assessments
• continuing professional development
• training for support and non-clinical staff.
• undertaking preparation for inspections by the Care Quality Commission and other external bodies.
• act as a IPC team member in an advisory capacity for clinical practice queries
• emergency duties such as staff practice for ‘outbreak management’
• ward visits to advise on IPC practice and train at ‘the bed-side’
• advise out-patient staff and patients on IPC practice.
• act as role model for trust staff
• patient-related administration linked to clinical work,
• develop best practice at grass roots level across the clinical divisions and across clinical teams
• develop a culture of patient safety and ‘zero tolerance’ of healthcare acquired infections
• systematic assessment and development of training needs in relation to infection prevention and control core practices for all members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT)
• deliver training and assessing clinical competence in the clinical setting for members of the MDT
• develop the role of clinical champion for hand hygiene and best infection prevention and control (IPC) practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

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.