Job summary
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.

Part time and full time posts available.

Main duties of the job
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

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
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.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse/ allied Health Professional educated to degree level
• Evidence of continuing professional development within the area of Infection prevention and control.
• Has undertaken the IPC link advisor / practitioner role within their clinical area and any associated training.
• Has managed the care of isolated / infectious patients within their clinical role
• Completion of organisational, mandatory IPC training

Desirable

• Higher professional or management degree or higher specialist level e.g., MSC/PG DIP in infection prevention and control
• Recognised teaching qualification

Experience
Essential

• Team/shift leader experience dealing with patient placement of the isolated patient.
• Experience of making rationalised knowledge-based decisions in an outbreak.
• Significant knowledge and clinical experience across the range of work procedures and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience
• Competent in the delivery of standard and transmission-based precautions and able to support others to achieve this to minimize transmission of infection.

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Highly developed communication skills, ranging from informal 1:1 discussions, formal presentations covering both oral and written skills
• A strong understanding of multidisciplinary issues and commitment to multi-disciplinary working.
• Quality focus with innovative approach and the ability to solve complex problems.
• Has good IPC knowledge and the ability to work automatously.
• Able to analyse complex information and facilitate the application of theory to practice.
• Verbal reasoning skills
• Ability to work automatously and also as part of a team
• Excellent presentation skills
• Evidence of achieving change in clinical practice
• Ability to produce learning and teaching materials
• Knowledge of evidenced and research based practice
• Computer literate i.e., PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Self-motivated, and able to motivate others, securing the cooperation of colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Being flexible and adaptable to work in order to meet competing priorities
• Project management skills.
• Risk Management skills
• Car driver

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).