Clinical Nurse Specialist - Infection Prevention and Control

Job overview

Are you an experienced Infection Prevention and Control Nurse ready to take the next step in your career and join our team of finalists of the Nursing Times Awards? Whether you're already qualified or nearing completion of your IPC qualification, we have an exciting opportunity for you. DGT IPC won the 2025 IPS international award for nurturing IPC talent and you would be joining this small, friendly, and forward-thinking IPC team. We are paper light in our approach, and a digitally driven, data focused team that values and fosters innovation along with continuous improvement. Our work is in supporting the Trust across its acute hospital sites and community bases, making a real impact on patient safety and care quality. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in IPC, you’ll provide expert advice, lead on infection surveillance, prevention of outbreaks; when required - management, supporting proactive and reactive interventions at the patient bedside. You’ll also deliver training, conduct audits, and drive improvement initiatives that shape the future of infection prevention across our services. The role will entail being a clinically focused practitioner who works with operational staff at the point of care delivery, based on our sites and in the IPC offices.

This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.

Main duties of the job

What we’re looking for:

A dedicated and experienced IPC nurse with strong clinical insight and a passion for patient safety, ability to work with data and research based findings to shape and influence good infection prevention on the front line.

Someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and is confident working across multiple sites and community services with no two days the same, an ability to respond to arising issues and situations that require dynamic decision making.

A professional with the flexibility to travel and the drive to make a difference.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:

Produce and maintain surveillance information on new MRSA and Clostridium difficile isolates, GNBSI organisms, other mandatory surveillance system pathogens, notifiable infections, ensuring reporting is prompt and within agreed time deadlines i.e., daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly.

In line with national mandatory targets and reporting requirements, assist and work closely with IPCSC, Matron, in production of graphs and charts towards the preparation and provision of reporting of MRSA, Clostridium difficile, and GNBSI rates to UKHSA, and internal reports to Infection Prevention and Control Committee, Quality Committee, development of report writing skills, & cross cover with the Matron IPC to develop draft reports, contributing to the accurate data, and drawing on themes, trends around patient safety, clinical effectiveness and clinical quality.

Utilise the Trust software such as Datix to record, and pull out incident information, actions, bring these to closure.

Collate all the relevant information from a variety of sources to enable accurate and timely submissions of data in accordance with national mandatory targets.

Lead in delivering an annual schedule for the various audit programmes undertaken. This includes environmental/clinical practice audits. Undertake follow up actions as directed post audit/ site visits.

Input data from completed audits and prepare accurate draft reports. Distribute completed audits to the relevant Divisional Leads, and

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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.