Head of Infection Prevention and Control
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Main area: Registered IPC Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 267-CS6899102
Site: Littlemore Mental Health Centre
Town: Oxford
Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum | pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/01/2025 23:59
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion. If you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, please get in touch, and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
Job overview
We are recruiting for Head of Infection Prevention and Control to provide strategic leadership and expert clinical guidance across the Trust, ensuring the highest standards of infection prevention and control are maintained.
This established and experienced team is central to the Trust for ensuring and maintaining patient and staff safety. You will be leading a team that works across a wide variety of services and sites, where quality improvement is an established way of working.
We are looking for a qualified IPC nurse with a record of good leadership that resonates with our values of being caring, safe, and excellent.
Main duties of the job
As our Head of IPC and deputy DIPC you will:
* Provide expert nurse leadership and advice to nurses and multidisciplinary teams, service users, and carers across all services in the Trust.
* Provide expert clinical practice as part of the multidisciplinary team.
* Work across the Trust to promote and develop excellence in the prevention of healthcare associated infections.
* Lead and participate in service development and quality improvement activities.
* Contribute to the advancement of nursing research within the Trust.
* Provide expert advice to serious investigations and complaint processes.
* Facilitate individual and team learning through teaching, supervision, modeling, coaching, and reflective practice.
* Link with acute health care providers, Integrated Care Boards (ICB), UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Health Education England, Strategic Clinical Networks, and Service user and Carer agencies to progress a community approach to infection prevention and control.
* Act as an ambassador for the Trust in local, regional, and national infection prevention and control activity.
Working for our organisation
The IPC team is a small but very experienced team, for whom quality improvements are a way of doing day-to-day business.
Oxford Health has an exceptional offer of ongoing development and excellent opportunities to work alongside partners to engage in world-leading research.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe, and excellent”
Person specification
Essential knowledge and experience
* Knowledge and experience of applying infection control across a wide variety of services.
* Relevant qualifications in nursing and IPC.
* Experience in Quality improvement.
* Proven track record of leadership skills.
* Experience of working with staff of all grades in a variety of settings.
* Experience of conducting and analysing IPC audits.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide.
* Appointment to this post is subject to satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Name: Britta Klinck
Job title: Chief Nurse
Email address: britta.klinck@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07919 624153
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