Infection Prevention Control and Sepsis Practitioner
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 December 2025 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV2 2DX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9218-25-1351 |
Summary
A knowledgeable clinical practitioner supporting staff, service and policy development within a defined area/specialty. Effectively communicate information with key stakeholders to ensure maintenance of high standards of infection prevention and control across the organisation. A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice. Manage a daily clinical workload following up on known infected patients, advising on isolation of patients, treatments and alert organisms. Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes. Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including; assessing and managing outbreak situations and ward closures. Participate in education and training of identified staff groups, link staff., patients and carers. Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available. Produce reports and utilise data to inform, predict and educate. Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort Support patients, carers and staff during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. breaking bad news or following an unexpected event. Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards. For further details please see the attached job description.