Infection Prevention Lead Nurse
Nuffield Health Oxford, The Manor Hospital | Nursing | Permanent | Full time |
Up to £50,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience
37.5 hours per week
If you want to work in infection prevention and control, you’ll love this brilliant opportunity to join the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. Alongside our Director of Clinical Services, you’ll take care of the day-to-day management of Infection Prevention and Control. We’re building an incredible patient experience – and it starts with you.
As an Infection Prevention Lead Nurse at our hospital, you’ll be registered with the appropriate governing body and hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including NMC. With post-registration experience (at least two years in infection prevention and control), you’re able to carry out investigations and root cause analysis, as well as advising the clinical team.
As an Infection Prevention Lead Nurse, you will:
* Liaise with the lead microbiologist and support the Director of Clinical Services as the DIPC
* Manage the infection prevention audit schedule and lead our infection prevention link team
* Produce an annual Infection Prevention programme and train the clinical and non-clinical team
* Facilitate the quality assurance review and produce the annual infection prevention report
* Assist with policy development, carrying out action plans and improving best practice
* Support clinical governance in the hospital
Helping you feel good.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.
Nuffield Health Oxford
Our modern hospital is based within a stone’s throw of the historic City of Oxford, a world-renowned centre of excellence for surgical and medical expertise. We are proud of the wonderful environment and team we have established, providing our patients with first class care. We operate 6 well equipped and modern operating theatres with 64 well-presented ensuite rooms.
We cater for inpatient and day care, providing a broad range of surgical specialties and clinics including Paediatrics, Oncology, Interventional Cardiology & Radiology, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology as well as women’s and men’s health clinics. The hospital is located with excellent transport links by road and rail, both to and from London, Thames Valley, and the Midlands.
Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.
If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.
It starts with you.
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