Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and experienced IPC nurse? Have you considered working in the community? Do you wish to join our friendly Infection Prevention & Control Team based at Beccles Hospital?
An excellent opportunity has arisen to become a member of the community Infection Prevention Control Team as a Specialist Nurse for East Coast Community Healthcare CIC, which is an exciting social enterprise providing a range of health and social care services across the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
The post holder will be a key player in the team, working in collaboration with clinical and non clinical staff to help ensure robust IPC measures are in use and embedded in practice, to prevent and reduce the incidence of infections in the community.
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist advice and expertise to support the prevention, surveillance, and control of infection across Great Yarmouth & Waveney community services.
Contribute to the day-to-day maintenance and further development of a high quality, proactive, responsive, and accessible infection prevention and control service.
Assist in developing and reviewing specialist infection control policies and protocols, in order to promote and maintain the highest standards of infection prevention and control practice that is evidence and research based.
Provide training and education to increase awareness of infection prevention and control issues amongst all community services.
Contribute to the Annual Infection Prevention and Control Annual Plan on behalf of the Infection Prevention & Control Team (IPCT).
Create quality improvement projects across a wide range of settings to support best evidence practice.
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
If you would like to discuss this role with a member of the IPAC team please contact either Kelly Osborne or Vince Pointon on 01502 445361.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To Contact, assess, monitor, and support
patients/clients and their families ensuring holistic health needs assessment
as well as medication compliance, treatment and follow up.
Communicate highly sensitive and complex condition
related information to staff, patients and relatives that can have more than
one treatment option; the post holder will be required to give expert opinion
to inform on the correct treatment. The information is not of a routine nature;
it is highly sensitive, frequently contentious, and confidential and needs to
be communicated in a manner that is easily understood by patients/clients and
their family and staff.
Liaise with CCDC, UKHSA, Medical Microbiologists, GPs
and community staff as required.
Organise/attend/participate in Outbreak Control Team
meetings as required.
To undertake audit of healthcare premises and support
staff to ensure that standards for infection control, clinical waste disposal
and decontamination are met.
To investigate outbreaks of infection by collecting
laboratory data and clinical information.
To advise on isolation techniques as appropriate.
To develop individual care plans in partnership with
clients based on a shared assessment of need.
To formulate and review/update Infection Control
Policies.
To be the lead IPC specialist on a number of
committees.
To act as the lead IPC specialist when a more senior
IPC team member is not available.
Attend in service training courses and study sessions
as appropriate to maintain own competencies.
Plan, implement and evaluate infection prevention and
control training to students and other members of ECCH staff.
To act as a source of expert advice regarding
infection prevention and control information to patients, contacts and members
of the public.
Maintain contemporaneous and accurate written and
electronic records in partnership with clients and in accordance with policies
and procedures.
Take responsibility for management of team members as
required.
Write reports and participate in audit on service
delivery, as required for manager and ECCH Board.
Devise
local protocols for specialist working and ensure implementation as required.
All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
(ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the
care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders. and
colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of
their job role.
Our Values
outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an
acronym within the word CARE.
These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our
Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions
we continue to build a strong culture.
Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience
- Relevant experience at A4C band 6
- Basic computer skills
- Effective caseload management
Desirable
- Clinical supervision
- Supervisory skills
- Evidence of audit/research
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN currently registered with the NMC
- Specialist degree/Masters level/relevant experience in infection prevention and control
- ENB 998 or equivalent
- Attendance at IPC courses/conferences in IPC
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Effective communication/interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information
- Ability to advocate and influence change
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to act as lead specialist in IPC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
Address
Beccles Hospital
St. Marys Road
Beccles
Suffolk
NR34 9NQ