Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Aintree Hospital
Town Liverpool
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 22/04/2025 23:59
Matron
Band 8a
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, Infection Prevention and Control Matron to join the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Team with University Hospitals of Liverpool Group on the Aintree Hospital Site.
You will lead a team driving improvements in infection prevention and control practice to reduce Healthcare Associated Infections in both adult services. You will support the IPC Lead Nurse in delivering the infection control agenda and directly manage the IPC team.
You must have a passion for patient safety and the infection prevention and control agenda.
Main duties of the job
The Matron for IPC is to be a visible leader with clinical expertise in the field of IPC and decontamination. The post holder will be an expert specialist nurse, manager and budget holder for the infection control service, providing clinical and managerial leadership.
They will, in conjunction with the IPC Lead Nurse, provide operational leadership of IPC and service delivery, implementing and delivering the IPC annual plan.
The Matron for IPC will also promote, influence and develop knowledge in respect of infection control practice through networks of education and training, to minimise the risk of healthcare associated infections.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Lead on identifying appropriate quality improvement activities and projects, ensuring that resources and support are in place and progress is being made.
Working under the direction of the General Manager, and alongside the Deputy Divisional Director of Nursing, to ensure an implementation plan and monitoring process is in place to deliver the clinical service strategy for the Care Group, identifying and raising new opportunities and service improvements that will enhance patient care and services.
Contribute to the implementation of major service delivery and transformation plans, including those involving cross pathway working internally and externally in support of enhanced patient care and quality of services using established project methodology.
Lead on identifying and cascading appropriate challenging goals and objectives through business and workforce planning and appraisal, making prompt, clear decisions which may involve tough choices or considered risks, ensuring that monitoring processes are in place.
Ensuring that implementation plans and monitoring processes are in place to deliver clinical operational plans with particular emphasis on quality standards and contribution of the nursing service including monitoring systems, structures and processes for managing clinical quality, risk and controls assurance.
Demonstrating strong business and quality driven nursing leadership.
Actively participate in Nursing Quality audit plan/leading action planning.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post graduate/registration management or training qualification/equivalent
Experience
* Demonstrable experience as a clinical manager, with responsibility for clinical quality, people management, budget responsibility and successful delivery of performance targets and quality standards within strict financial controls
* Knowledge of key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe the impact on nursing/clinical professional service
* Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems
Skills
* High level of communication skills, including mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
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