Specialist Infection Prevention and Control Nurse/ Practitioner in Portsmouth inPortsmouth PUBLISHED MON 9 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

Come and join our dynamic multidisciplinary IPC team. This role requires someone who is proactive and adaptable and willing to travel to a variety of locations across the trust geography. Our newly formed trust offers a diverse clinical profile which is interesting and challenging. Any individual taking the post will be required to make dynamic risk assessments based on the patient setting and risk profile adapting IPC guidance to fit both mental health and physical health rehabilitation inpatient settings. The role also provides advice to community and clinic based teams. There will be opportunities for teaching, developing estates knowledge, liaising with teams outside IPC, and developing resources and guidance to support the staff within the trust.

In addition to providing clinical advice you will be a senior IPC specialist nurse who will be required to support and mentor more junior members of the team. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who values IPC and wants to develop their skills outside of the acute setting.

The successful candidate will need to work as part of a small multidisciplinary team, whilst the role involves being a team player it also requires independent working and managing your own diary. This is an agile role with clinical responsibilities in a variety of clinical locations across a large geographical area. The post is both office based and working directly with clinical teams, you will need to be prepared to travel across the county to complete clinical visits. This is an ideal role for someone who has significant experience in IPC and is looking for a new challenge or a more senior position developing IPC skills in a variety of clinic settings.

The following provides some of the activity that would be expected

*Provide advisory support and guidance to inpatient areas and a variety of community and clinic based teams

*Manage and support clinical teams to complete IPC audits

*Teaching both informal and formal. Confidence in presenting to small and large audiences is requirement of this senior position

*Conduct assurance and compliance activity

*Line management, leadership and mentoring responsibilities

*Complete complex risk assessments taking into account the diverse environments of the trust

*Monitoring and ensuring compliance with the national standards of healthcare cleanliness

*Communication skills are essential as this role involves liaising with multidisciplinary teams and clinicians at all levels

*Rationalised confident decision making, utilising clinical expertise

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Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.