Infection Prevention Control Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Foundation NHS Trust Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) service has an exciting opportunity for both an experienced or a development opportunity to become a Specialist Infection Prevention and Control Nurse and join the team.

The Specialist IPC Nurse role is vital in providing the IPC service. You'll be using your knowledge and expertise of IPC as a Registered Nurse to provide care, advise, implement and evaluate standards of practice in relation to IPC, and share your knowledge base with the team and wider organisation, whilst working in conjunction with the Senior and Lead IPC Nurse and the Group Deputy Director for Infection Prevention and Control.

Main duties of the job

You will act as a role model and demonstrate that you are highly motivated, enthusiastic, well organised and are able to work independently and as part of a team and wider organisation. You will require effective communication skills and partnership working within the Trust and with other wider agencies and organisations in this role.

The team offer a supportive environment where you will be able to continue to develop both personally and professionally. This post would be suitable for a person with extensive post registration experience and a specialist interest in infection prevention and control, recent acute experience would be beneficial.

Current hours of work are 8.30-4.30 Monday-Friday, with a regular on-call including all Bank Holidays; and the post is based between ALL the Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole and North Lincolnshire Community Hospital Trust sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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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.