Infection Prevention and Control Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

To support the work of the IPaC team with the IPaC audit programme, IPaC link champion training and development, IPaC training, IPaC and TB outbreak screening and FIT testing

Main duties of the job

To support and contribute to the delivery of the Infection Prevention and Control service to patients and staff within Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust and externally

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Not an exhaustive list

• 1.    Provide IPaC hand hygiene training internally to NCHC staff and externally i.e. care homes where required 2.    Carry out hand hygiene and commode audits across NCHC staff and externally i.e. care homes where required. 3.    Attend external premises to screen people (nose and throat swabs) i.e.:
• care home residents for influenza.
• farms or homes of farm workers for avian influenza (Nose and throat swabs) 4.    Requires competency for High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) PPE donning and doffing