Infection Surveillance Lead | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Canterbury, CT1 3NG |
| Cwmni: | East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7318563/344-8563COR |
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The post holder will report directly to the Infection Prevention & Control Site Lead for Kent & Canterbury Hospital.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and effective running of the infection surveillance service within the Trust, across all pathways, focussing on Surgical site infection Surveillance (SSIS), managed within the Infection Prevention and Control Team, supported by Surgical leads across the organisation. The post holder will work closely with the data collection and entry clerks – managed through Surgery, and specialist clinicians in surgery, to ensure there is a robust system in place to identify infections, and report through the national surveillance programme, care groups and the infection control team, to enable effective multi disciplinary approach to reduce avoidable infections.
• Infection Surveillance data collection ensuring completion of surveillance forms e.g. surgical site infection forms
• Ensuring close surveillance is undertaken of all patients in defined groups to identify surgical wound infections to determine incidence and prevalence
• To promote a patient focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevant health professionals
• Oversee data entry and coding for SSIS, supporting the data entry clerks
• To work with the MDT to review potential causes of infections and identify areas or learning, and actively support the SSI steering group
• Teach support and develop staff in the clinical teams
• Identify problems and be involved in developing improved methods of work in a multi-disciplinary team environment
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Please scroll down to access the full Job Description and Person Specification located in ‘Documents to download’.
If you have further queries please don’t hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details below.
This advert closes on Tuesday 19 Aug 2025