An opportunity has arisen to join our newly expanding, Doncaster Place based Infection Prevention & Control Team. This is a post working across organisational boundaries to achieve our ambition of reducing avoidable infections as a system within the borough of Doncaster, putting the patient at the centre of all that we do. You will be required to work as part of the team facilitating the prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infection within the Acute Trust and across community services within the borough of Doncaster.
The successful candidate will be expected to have sound clinical nursing skills, an understanding of the basic principles of infection control and the ability and drive to empower and facilitate effective infection control practice. If you are self-motivated with a kind and compassionate approach then this post is for you.
The role will include staff education, promoting good infection control standards, audits and feedback of results, responding to outbreaks and Quality Improvement initiatives.
Main duties of the job
As an Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner you will provide specialist Infection Prevention support and guidance for staff delivering clinical and strategic infection prevention programme and delivering IPC services across the Acute Trust and community social care services. You will be equipped to support the training and development of systems to improve the quality of IPC management, by the delivery of national directives, to develop local quality, patient safety and safe systems of working for staff. You will work with the Trust Antimicrobial lead and the Lead Antimicrobial Pharmacist in driving forward Antimicrobial Stewardship best practice.
The post holder will be required to travel as a requirement for this role across Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals sites as well as Care homes, extra care facilities, domiciliary care and specialist healthcare placements across the Doncaster Borough to meet the needs of the service.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:
* Extensive range of learning opportunities
* NHS Pension Scheme
* Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
* Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
* NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemes
* Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert, a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read both documents carefully.
Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
* Demonstrable experience of working in specialty.
* Highly specialist knowledge in relation to Infection Prevention and Control underpinned by theory and experience and application of that knowledge.
* Good track record of identifying and resolving infection control issues
* Able to organise and chair meetings and committees
* Experience of teaching and mentoring
* Able to set up, develop and deliver education courses
* Experience of leading an audit project cycle
* Experienced in risk assessment
Desirable
* Experience of team management
* Interpretation of statistics
* Research and development activity
* Clinical expertise in the specific role
Qualifications and Training
Essential
* Up to date knowledge of professional issues
* Relevant academic module/course relating to IPC
* Teaching and assessing qualification
* IT literate
* Registered nurse with current NMC registration
* Evidence of CPD in personal portfolio
* Advanced understanding of the workings of a Foundation Trust and the complexities of delivering a service therein
* Advanced knowledge of communicable disease prevention and control
* Advanced knowledge of infection control
* Good clinical reasoning skills in infection control
* Ability to make operational judgements
* Ability to understand, critically assess and interpret research findings into practice
* Good understanding of computers and their applications
* Good working knowledge of all areas of clinical and non-clinical governance, including quality, audit and risk management.
* Ability to create PowerPoint presentations
* Holds a non-medical prescribing qualification or willingness to work toward
Desirable
* Leadership qualification/training
Personal Attributes & skills
Essential
* Excellent communication skills, including written and presentations
* Experience of risk assessment and outbreak management.
* Compassionate, demonstrating patient centered approach to care
* Able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and communicate the information in an understandable format to patients and colleagues
* Able to present information in a clear and logical manner
* Able to work within an environment of constantly shifting priorities
* Able to work within a stressful and unpredictable workload
* Motivated and solution-focused individual
* Able to cope sensitively with distressed and/or bereaved members of the public
* Good presentation skills to large and small groups, to other professionals, the Trust Board and general public (experience required)
* Able to accommodate the demands of the post with flexible working as required and maintain excellent attendance including participation in a 7 day service.
* Precise and methodical in working practice and able to work under own initiative.
* Resourceful and able to work and as part of a team
* Ability to delegate
* Ability to analyse complex facts or situations and take appropriate actions
* Have full driving license and access to a vehicle to travel across the borough of Doncaster to visit community services.
* Ability to be self-motivated
* Proven organisational skills including prioritisation of work
* Ability to lead and motivate others Good report writing skills
* Ability to influence and direct the thinking and decision making of senior managers
* Ability to influence clinical practice across professional boundaries
* Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection to meet the differing needs of patients
Desirable
* Experience of leading service development/ Quality Improvement Projects and reviews together with managing operational role
Employer details
Employer name
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Address
Doncaster Royal Infirmary
Armthorpe Road
Doncaster
DN2 5LT
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