Community IPC Nurse Specialist

This is an exciting opportunity, for an experienced Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Specialist to join the award winning, innovative North Yorkshire Community Infection Prevention and Control Team (IPCT). We are a friendly, dynamic team with a proactive approach to infection prevention and control. The post holder will be an active member of the team and key duties will include working with IPC colleagues to prevent, investigate and control infection within North Yorkshire Health and Social Care settings, e.g. care homes and domiciliary care.
A large part of the role will be providing infection prevention and control education to staff, taking the lead in the team on developing dynamic approaches to delivering education. The post will include collaborative working with colleagues in infection prevention and control, the ICS/ICB and Local Authorities., + Provide advisory and clinical input to facilitate and continuously improve quality infection prevention and control care for patients in the community.
+ Provide specialist clinical advice, support and counselling for patients, relatives and the general public on community infection prevention and control issues.
+ Provide advice on infection prevention and control practices including outbreak management.
+ Investigate outbreaks of healthcare associated infection, with particular reference to their source and mode of spread.
+ Provide nursing advice to those patients with alert organisms e.g. C. difficile, PVL, MRSA.
+ Use assessing, planning, implementing and evaluation skills to provide individualised care.
+ Establish effective partnerships with patients and their families and act as the patient's advocate to ensure their needs are met appropriately.
+ Provide advice on individualised patient care based upon the principles of evidence based practice.
+ Recognise, investigate and take the necessary action to resolve HCAI issues.
+ Actively encourage patients to be involved in service developments, continuously seeking feedback to guide improvements.
+ Identify potential infection hazards for patients, staff, equipment or procedures.
+ Assist staff with the interpretation of laboratory reports relevant to the control of infection and relating relevant clinical information to the laboratory staff.
+ Collect relevant clinical data for use by the IPCT surveillance team

The post-holder will be a registered nurse with a minimum of 5 years post registration experience, have a recognised qualification in IPC, experience of working as an IPC Nurse Specialist and a qualification in education