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Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 07 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742 to £50,056 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742 - £50056 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Beccles, NR34 9NQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9849-047-24 |
Summary
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.