Infection Prevention & Control Nurse (Band 6) - Chief Nurse - Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust – Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Foundation NHS Trust Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) service has an exciting opportunity for both an experienced or a development opportunity to become a Specialist Infection Prevention and Control Nurse and join the team.
The Specialist IPC Nurse role is vital in providing the IPC service. You'll be using your knowledge and expertise of IPC as a Registered Nurse to provide care, advise, implement and evaluate standards of practice in relation to IPC, and share your knowledge base with the team and wider organisation, whilst working in conjunction with the Senior and Lead IPC Nurse and the Group Deputy Director for Infection Prevention and Control.
You will act as a role model and demonstrate that you are highly motivated, enthusiastic, well organised and are able to work independently and as part of a team and wider organisation. You will require effective communication skills and partnership working within the Trust and with other wider agencies and organisations in this role.
The team offer a supportive environment where you will be able to continue to develop both personally and professionally. This post would be suitable for a person with extensive post registration experience and a specialist interest in infection prevention and control; recent acute experience would be beneficial.
Current hours of work are 8.30-4.30 Monday-Friday, with a regular on-call including all Bank Holidays; and the post is based between all the Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Goole and North Lincolnshire Community Hospital Trust sites.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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