Infection Prevention and Control Specialist Nurse inDoncaster inDoncaster PUBLISHED
TUE 5 NOV 2024
Key responsibilities include staff education, promoting infection control standards, conducting audits, and participating in Quality Improvement initiatives. The Specialist Nurse will provide expert guidance and support in the delivery of clinical and strategic infection prevention programs and must be willing to travel across a variety of healthcare settings in the Doncaster area. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated with a compassionate demeanor, committed to enhancing the quality and safety of infection prevention and control management within the community.
An opportunity has arisen to join our newly expanding, Doncaster Place based Infection Prevention & Control Team. This is a post working across organisational boundaries to achieve our ambition of reducing avoidable infections as a system within the borough of Doncaster, putting the patient at the centre of all that do. You will be required to work as part of the team facilitating the prevention, surveillance, investigation and control of infection within the Acute Trust and across community services within the borough of Doncaster.
The successful candidate will be expected to have sound clinical nursing skills, an understanding of the basic principles of infection control and the ability and drive to empower and facilitate effective infection control practice. If you self-motivated with a kind and compassionate approach then this post is for you.
The role will include staff education, promoting good infection control standards, audits and feedback of results, responding to outbreaks and Quality Improvement initiatives.
As an Infection Prevention and Control Specialist Nurse you will provide specialist Infection Prevention support and guidance for staff deliveringclinical and strategic infection prevention programme and delivering IPC services across the Acute Trust and community social care services. You will be equipped to support the training and development of systems to improve the quality of IPC management, by the delivery of national directives, to develop local quality, patient safety and safe systems of working for staff.
The post holder will be required to travel as a requirement for this role across Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals sites as well as Care homes, extra care facilities, domiciliary care and specialist healthcare placements across the Doncaster Borough to meet the needs of the service.
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