Infection Prevention and Control Nurse- Kent & Medway ICS | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9QQ |
| Company: | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7756385/359-7756385-T1 |
Summary
Do you have a keen interest in Infection Prevention and Control?
Do you have skills, experience or passion to make an impact in preventing infections?
Now is the time for you to join our forward-thinking Infection control team.
Please note this role is currently only being advertised to staff members who are currently working within the Kent and Medway ICS.
Preventing healthcare associated infections remains a high priority. In order to ensure best practice and best care is provided to our patients you will work along side the specialist nurses to participate in the development and co-ordination of an effective infection control service across the Trust.
Ensure policies are up to date and adhered to by working closely with staff, demonstrating good practice, providing education and training and managing relevant promotional projects.
Responsible, with other members of the Infection Prevention and Control Team, for prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infection in The Maidstone & Tunbridge wells NHS Trust.
In this year's NHS staff survey, our employees voted to recommend us as an employer, positioning us as the second most recommended NHS Trust in the South East.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Following your Corporate Induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please emailmtw-tr.professionalstandards@nhs.netif this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check atEnhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
This advert closes on Monday 16 Feb 2026