Senior Community Infection Prevention Nurse(Integrated Role HB & LA's)

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an inspirational Senior Community Infection Prevention Nurse to join a friendly, ambitious, and exciting Public Health Directorate. The successful applicant will be working in an integrated capacity between the Health Board and Local Authority. Do you share a passion to protect our population, and have the skills to lead others to do so? If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual who will provide leadership and clinical expert advice to develop, implement and evaluate a defined organisation wide Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programme and provide expert advice in all aspects of IP&C across the authority.  You will support a preventative approach to IPC within the local population across a range of settings. We are seeking an individual with developed project management skills and lead learning and development initiatives and drive innovation. You will drive the service development activities, working with the Health Board’s Immunisation & Health Protection Service, Infection Prevention team and Local Authority and other stakeholders.

You will lead in the development of standards and audit to underpin best practice, evaluating new initiatives to improve IPC strategies, improving health and outcomes for our population health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work to a level equivalent with the national job profile for senior infection prevention nurse. They will use their own initiative and be accountable for assessing and interpreting technical and relevant clinical information in order to implement the organisation’s IP&C programme and provide complex/ expert advice on the prevention and control of all infections.

Work with the Health Board’s Immunisation & Health Protection Service, Infection Prevention team and Local Authority and other stakeholders in developing the strategy in this specialist field.

Initiate, implement and participate in education and training, risk management programmes, quality improvement methods, policy development, surveillance processes and use of audit.

Manage conflict and challenge inappropriate practice through effective utilisation of professional knowledge and negotiating skills.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Interviews will be held on 05/06/2026.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences.  In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.