Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster

Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner

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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Doncaster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 31 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 33b85904f7b840e1821c54fc2bb752fd

Full Job Description

An opportunity has arisen to join our newly expanding, Doncaster Place based Infection Prevention & Control Team. This is a post working across organisational boundaries to achieve our ambition of reducing avoidable infections as a system within the borough of Doncaster, putting the patient at the centre of all that do. You will be required to work as part of the team facilitating the prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infection within the Acute Trust and across community services within the borough of Doncaster.

The successful candidate will be expected to have sound clinical nursing skills, an understanding of the basic principles of infection control and the ability and drive to empower and facilitate effective infection control practice. If you self-motivated with a kind and compassionate approach then this post is for you.

The role will include staff education, promoting good infection control standards, audits and feedback of results, responding to outbreaks and Quality Improvement initiatives., As an Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner you will provide specialist Infection Prevention support and guidance for staff deliveringclinical and strategic infection prevention programme and delivering IPC services across the Acute Trust and community social care services. You will be equipped to support the training and development of systems to improve the quality of IPC management, by the delivery of national directives, to develop local quality, patient safety and safe systems of working for staff. You will work with the Trust Antimicrobial lead and the Lead Antimicrobial Pharmacist in driving forward Antimicrobial Stewardship best practice.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.