IPC Nurse Advisor

Job summary

Are you:

• Interested in developing your Infection prevention and control knowledge?
• Interested in developing your nursing career?
• Committed to giving the highest standard of patient care?
• Compassionate towards patients and their families?
• An excellent communicator?
• Highly motivated, energetic and innovative?

This is an exciting opportunity to improve patient experience to ensure that receive clean safe care.

You will occupy a high-profile role, be readily accessible, and bear management and consultancy responsibilities for implementing the infection control strategy, while providing effective clinical leadership that supports and inspires colleagues.

The role is crucial in establishing and maintaining operational IPC assurance processes.

This is a fixed term secondment for maternity cover.

Main duties of the job

In this post, you will be an integral member of the well-established Worcester Acute Hospitals Trust Infection Prevention & Control Team, providing a service for all sites of Worcester Acute Hospitals Trust.

You will play a key role in the delivery of the trust Infection Prevention & Control improvement plan, and the focus of your role will be to provide Infection Prevention & Control support for the Trust.

Your duties will include; patient reviews, undertaking audit, surveillance, education and supporting campaigns. Alongside this you will be guiding and supporting clinical staff on Infection Prevention and Control guidelines and policies, therefore promoting safe, quality, patient centred care. You will be committed to quality improvement, engaging with patients and staff and have the ability to translate guidance and strategy into changes of care.

In return you will be joining a team who are committed to supporting you in your development, providing you with the knowledge and skills to undertake your role.

Job responsibilities

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.