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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
1. Provide support to the nurse consultant and lead nurse in delivering the infection prevention and control service agenda.
2. Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of evidence based policies across the organisation.
3. Lead by example and act as a positive role model for all staff, taking responsibility for own professional development.
4. Communicate and maintain links with external stakeholders to promote the reduction of HCAIs.
5. Contribute to and support clinical effectiveness and innovative practice within the infection prevention and control service.
6. Practice under the direction of the band 7 nurse specialist, working towards achieving agreed levels of competence, skills and knowledge to enable independent autonomous practice within their scope of clinical practice.
7. Use a range of techniques to ensure and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide clinical support to healthcare workers in appropriately risk assessing and managing cases of infection, advising when isolation is necessary as per policy.
2. Participate with IPC duty nurse function on a rotational basis.
3. In line with local and national reporting requirements, produce and present reports to a high standard.
4. Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of the annual infection prevention and control work programme.
5. Receive and interpret laboratory reports, patient information, policy documents or other complex infection control information as required to people accessing the service for support.
6. Be responsible for the implementation and evaluation of the hand hygiene strategy and campaigns in liaison and collaboration with ward/service users and staff.
7. Disseminate, implement and audit infection prevention and control policies, ensuring consistent and high standards across the Trust.
8. Provide support and guidance to service and premises development projects as directed by the nurse specialist or lead nurse and gain knowledge of health memorandums, building notes and infection control in the built environment.
9. Participate in PLACE (Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment) inspections and to advise NELFT on the infection prevention and control aspects of cleaning and catering service provision and related staff training.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse at diploma or degree level.
* Minimum 6 months post registration.
Essential criteria
* Experience of working in community and acute care settings.
* Sound and comprehensive clinical experience, with a working knowledge of invasive and medical devices, their management and related clinical procedures.
* Experience in mentoring, assessing, coaching.
* Recent evidence of participation in audit and data collecting in relation to infection prevention and control.
* Experience of working effectively across healthcare professions and with non-clinical staff.
Skills
* Basic awareness of IT and IT skills.
* Ability to plan and prioritise workload.
* Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Presentation and teaching skills, public speaking.
Benefits
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role can be discussed at the interview stage.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
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