# Band 6 Practice Educator Infection Prevention and Control > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-practice-educator-infection-prevention-and-control/25a77982-9214-453d-9087-cd0368490df0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-practice-educator-infection-prevention-and-control/25a77982-9214-453d-9087-cd0368490df0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum, including HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-08T09:51:45.909Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Infection_Prevention_Control_Nursing/Infection_Prevention_Control_Nursing-v8065112 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8065112?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## Responsibilities Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - Able to work flexibly in line with requirements of the post - Evidence of continuing professional development ### Experience **Essential** - - experience at Band 5/6 caring for acute nursing - - Experience of Teaching / Mentorship/ Preceptorship - - Experience of working closely with a multidisciplinary team - - Experience of challenging practice ### Skills and aptitudes **Essential** - Advanced communication skills - Interested in continuing to develop clinical skills - Evidence of participation in audit and the promotion of evidence based practice - Understanding of basic managerial skills - Understanding of clinical risk, clinical governance and national benchmarks - Understanding of national frameworks - Understanding of preceptorship, mentorship & staff development ### Royal Free World Class Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Personal Qualities & attributes **Essential** - Committed to reducing hospital acquired infections - Positive, professional and polite - Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible and professional approach - To be flexible and approachable - Computer Literacy and excel database skills - Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines ### Education & Professional qualifications **Essential** - RGN - Teaching / mentorship qualification - Be prepared to work towards modules in infection prevention and control / degree level ## Documents - [pe jd (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10355841) - [ps band 6 (pdf, 96.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10355842) - [pe job plan (pdf, 92.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10355844) - [fr version 5 2014 (pdf, 100.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10355843) - [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 388.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755) - [corporate, admin & clerical, other - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 935.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2753) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.