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Site North Tees Town stockton Salary £37,338 - £44,962 £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 05/06/2025
We are on a continuous journey of improvement and transformation, however our main priority is, and always will be, providing safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. If you share our passion then apply for this opportunity and help us make our patients’ experience the best it can possibly be.
With a budget of around £365m, three hospitals and 5,500 staff, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital-based services to the population of Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and parts of East Durham and Sedgefield as well as community, therapeutic and screening to a wider population across Durham and Teesside.
Job overview
This post may close early due to sufficient applications.
To provide infection prevention and control nursing services and expert advice in North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice in the prevention, surveillance and investigation of infection. To provide infection prevention and control advice as specified in Service Level Agreements.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of a team with the infection prevention and control nursing staff, Infection Control Doctor and Microbiology staff, and will liaise with external agencies and partners as required.
Provide an information flow to Senior Clinical Matrons, Heads of Service, General managers and Clinical Directors as required
Work as part of a team providing support for an assigned directorate
Be required to work with all staff and patients and be confident to professionally challenge poor practice at times.
Represent the trust externally to share good practice. Competently report back to the trust.
Working for our organisation
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition – a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.
We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Act as a specialist adviser to all staff in matters relating to infection prevention and control.
Liaise and agree action with all necessary staff in the event of an outbreak of infection.
Assist in the investigation of outbreaks of infection with specific reference to source, mode of spread and means of control, and to implement plan for containment and prevention of further spread.
Contribute to the IPCT clinical audit programme to continuously evaluate clinical procedures to ensure compliance with agreed infection prevention and control measures, recommending change when necessary to reduce risk trust wide, including implementation of research and recent validated advances in infection prevention and control.
Identify and provide information and specialist education appropriate to need for different staff groups.
Represent the Infection Prevention and Control Team on relevant committees, working groups etc and provide active membership and appropriate specialist input.
Participate in the production of infection prevention and control reports as necessary.
Deliver formal and informal IPC training to a wide range of staff in different settings.
Participate in the production of infection prevention and control reports as necessary.
Requirement to travel to different sites, as necessary.
Provide counselling and/or information to patients, carers and staff on infection prevention and control measures relevant to their individual needs.
Participate in the formulation and review of policies and guidelines for the prevention and control of infection.
Contribute to QI projects and initiatives to improve IPC practice.
· Have an awareness of the Trust financial position and work efficiently and effectively to contribute to budgets
· Act as a practice supervisor to students attached to the department as part of their training
· Support junior members of the team
· Conduct appraisals as required
· Maintain accurate records
· Proficient on Microsoft packages such as word and excel
· Ensuring all relevant logs are kept up to date
· Contribute to the IPCT clinical audit programme
· Required to work autonomously, prioritise own workload, manage own diary. With supervision and guidance available from the IPC team, IPC matron and IPC lead nurse.
Maintain personal and professional development to meet the changing demands of the job, participate in appropriate training activities.
Participate in review of own performance regularly and development of personal development plan at least every 12 months
Take responsibility for own actions
Recognise own personal strengths and weaknesses and identify appropriate strategies to enhance the strengths and overcome or minimise the weaknesses
Apply personal effectiveness skills in terms of time management, prioritisation, resource management, self-motivation and team work
Person specification
Qualifications
* registered nurse with NMC registration
* Degree (or commenced on pathway)
* evidence of further post registration experience
* Mentorship in practice or equivalent teaching qualification
* Evidence of teaching in current role
Experience
* broad post registration experience in clinical settings within the last 2 years
* Involvement in IPC in current role
* experience of involvement in audit and root cause analysis
* Awareness of national IPC policies
* experience in report writing
* experience in delivering training
Skills
* Ability to work on own initiative
* able to transport self and equipment between sites
* Good IT skill, proficient with Microsoft packages
* Experience of working with patients and carers
* Able to work autonomously and prioritise work load
* Quality improvement skills
* experience of preparing and delivering presentations
management
* experience of mentoring or supporting junior team members
* Appraisal and people management skills
communication
* excellent communication skills, verbal and written
* able to work well in a team and with all other staff members in the hospital and externally
Financial and phsyical
* Driving license and access to own vehicle
other
* previously worked in IPC team
**Please note - Once sufficient applications have been received this vacancy may close early**
Please check your email address on a regular basis as applicants invited to attend an interview will be notified via this method.
As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to undertake pre-employment screening:
Disclosure and Barring Scheme(previously Criminal Records Bureau)
Where a post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it may be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Scheme to check for any previous criminal convictions. Should you require a copy of the Trust's Disclosure and Barring Service Policy, please contact a member of the recruitment team on 01642 624023.
It is the policy of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost for their DBS certificate. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay on commencement with the Trust.
Please note the essential qualifications required for the post outlined within the Person Specification. You are required to hold and provide evidence of the necessary qualifications for the post at interview should you be shortlisted.
For any new employees commencing employment with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, you will be subject to satisfactory completion of a 6 month probationary period. Please note that internal applications and individuals that are appointed to fixed term appointments of less than 6 months duration are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or a bank member of staff).
As part of our pre-employment screening process, all applicants are required to provide references covering their last three years employment history. Applicants are requested toensure e-mail addressesfor all referees are included on their application form. Personal references are not acceptable.
If the hours advertised for the post are up to full time (37.5 hours per week), applications are still welcomed from individuals who may be seeking to work less than full-time hours and all requests will be considered in line with the post being appointed to for the successful applicant.
North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust operates a No Smoking Policy.
If you experience any technical difficulties applying for this post please contact a member of our recruitment team on 01642 624023 quoting the vacancy reference.
The details in the Monitoring Information section of your application will be used for monitoring our recruitment process and will not be seen by the interview panel. The information you give will be treated in the strictest confidence. To meet its commitment to promoting equality of opportunity, the Trust’s policy is that individuals will be recruited, trained and promoted according to ability and job requirements only. As such we welcome your application irrespective of your gender, race, disability, colour, ethnic or national origin, and nationality, and marital status, responsibility for dependants, religion, trade union activity and age.
Disability
The Trust gives full and fair consideration to applications for employment received from disabled people. We are a “Positive about Disabled People” employer, and we hold the ‘two ticks’ Disability Symbol, which is a recognition given by Jobcentre Plus to employers who have agreed to meet five commitments regarding the recruitment, employment, retention and career development of disabled people. If you have a disability, which makes it difficult for you to complete our application form, please do not hesitate to contact the recruitment team on 01642 624023.
As a supporter of the Armed Forces and an employer of Reservists, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust are proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, which is a promise by the nation to ensure that those who serve or who have served in the UK Armed Forces (and their families) are treated fairly.
We recognise that reservists and veterans bring a variety of transferable skills and qualities to our workplace, developed through their military careers. Our commitment to supporting the Armed Forces Community has been recognised through the Armed Forces Covenant as a Silver Employer.
What does this mean?
We proactively demonstrate our forces-friendly credentials within our recruitment and selection processes, by having a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for those indicated as part of the Armed Forces Community. We engage with our local and regional Career Transition Partnership representatives and are a member of Step Into Health. We employ veterans and reservists from differing branches of the Armed Forces and actively promote our positive policies for the Armed Forces Community, including our Special Leave policy. We advocate support for defence people issues, including facilitating easier access to Healthcare Services for our patients within the AF Community. We have supported employees through Reservist training, through additional leave for their training and ongoing support under our Special Leave policy.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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