Main area: Infection Prevention and Control
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 7 day service / on-call requirement 365 days/year)
Job ref: 356-25-6966249
Employer: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital
Town: Hull
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/03/2025 23:59
Infection Prevention and Control Specialist Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
Hull University Teaching Hospitals 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 Director for Infection Prevention and Control.
Main duties of the job
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. You will manage oversight of your own Care Groups and support and deliver education and teaching to various groups.
The team offers 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 7 days a week 8.30-4.30 Monday-Friday, and 8.00-4.00 Saturday and Sunday, as part of a rota; the post is based between both the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital sites.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
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 Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse
* Current Mentor or willing to work towards becoming Practice Assessor / Practice Supervisor
* Nursing Degree relating to infection control or willing to undertake programme of study
* Relevant teaching qualification or willingness to undertake one
* Significant post registration experience in an acute setting
* Evidence of professional development
* Evidence of previous B6 / leadership experience
* Evidence of project management / service development
* Evidence of specialist interest in infection prevention and control
Knowledge and Skills
* Evidence of interpersonal / communication skills
* Evidence of understanding IPC role and contribution to service development
* Evidence of teaching and facilitation of teaching
* Evidence of role modelling as an IPC Link Nurse
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Nicola Buckle
Job title: Senior Matron Infection Prevention and Control
Email address: nicola.buckle2@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07880482572
Additional information
Please contact Emma Batch, Senior IPC Nurse, email: emma.batch3@nhs.net, tel: 01482 311553, or Nicola Buckle, email: nicola.buckle2@nhs.net or mobile: 07880482572; Michelle Lawtie, email: michelle.lawtie@nhs.net or mobile: 07920087299.
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