Job summary
- Main area
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term- 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0582
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (both sites)
- Town
- Gloucestershire (Gloucester and Cheltenham)
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/08/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 19/09/2025
Employer heading
Infection Prevention and Control Nurse, Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
We are excited to announce we are looking to recruit a band 6 infection prevention and control Nurse on a fixed term contract to cover Maternity leave. Are you interested in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)? Do you want to be part of a friendly, supportive and innovative Infection Prevention and Control team? Then we want to hear from you.
The successful candidate will participate in the prevention and control of healthcare associated infection within Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT).They will work closely with other team members across the One Gloucestershire System in the ongoing development and implementation of infection control practice in line with both Trust and national requirements.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, proactive and motivated Nurse. Joining the team will provide the successful candidate the opportunity to develop expert skills and knowledge related to the prevention of infection and underpinning Microbiology. Opportunities to undertake post graduate study, research, quality improvement will also be offered.
The proposed interview date is 19th September
Main duties of the job
You will inspire and motivate others, and act as a role model and a professional source of advice for others.
A key part of the role will be to use evidenced based IPC to challenge and innovate new practice to ensure safe service delivery. To support our staff to maintain high standards of IPC, deliver infection prevention programmes and optimise management and treatment of patients with infections. The IPCN will ensure that IPC remains a highly visible service and an integral part of a robust patient safety programme.
You will be a Nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The candidates will have knowledge of current issues relating to IPC and excellent communication and interpersonal. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate an understanding of audit and quality improvement. They will be able to prioritise their own workload; working independently and as a team.
Working for our organisation
Infection prevention & control is a top priority for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Keeping our patients safe from harm is everyone’s responsibility. The Infection Prevention & Control Team have a wide ranging programme of activity that focusses on continual improvement in order to deliver the best care for everyone and ensures our patients are at the heart of everything we do.
The successful candidate will be working in the Infection Prevention and Control team. The team is made up of Band 6 & 7 Nurses, a Lead Nurse for IPC and AMS, Infection Control Doctors, Surgical site surveillance team and Antimicrobial Pharmacists. Band 6 IPCNs are allocated mentors and supported by band 7 Nurses to support their development.
The IPCT have a vision of no preventable infection by delivering safe care. The team foster an environment of support, innovation & work to ensure that everything is done with the patient in mind. The team are friendly and inclusive.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role duties would include:
- Support patient ward rounds e.g. Nurse led C. difficile ward rounds and AMS ward rounds
- Administration of novel CDI therapies such as Faecal Microbiota transplants
- Advising and supporting staff with IPC issues
- Completing IPC audits and surveillance and engaging with ward and departments to support their delivery of remedial action plans
- Teaching on related study days and delivery and review of educational packages once confident to do so
- Division and system wide meeting attendance and participation
- Exposure to external IPC conferences and regional meetings
- Completion of post infection reviews
- Management and monitoring of outbreaks
- Leading and supporting quality improvement projects
- System wide working with key stakeholders and partners including UKHSA, Occupational Health, NHSE
- Engagement in Trust wide shared decision making
- Undertake research and writing for publication
Contact Details
Eve Spiers (Lead Nurse for IPC and AMS)
07816 603288 or 0300 422 5042
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- NMC Registrant
- Interest in infection prevention and control
- Demonstrate understanding of research and evidence-based practice
- Experience of report writing
- Ability to work flexibly in response to the needs of the service and at all levels of the organisation.
- Ability to work on both hospital in the trust
- Resolve problematic situations/deal with difficult people
- Be able to develop effective working relationships with all disciplines across the trust.
- Change management and problem-solving skills and the ability to influence others and effect change.
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to work as a team
- Ability to demonstrate tact and diplomacy
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching, training and staff development.
- Appropriate post registration experience
- Confident in IT – excel, word databases
- Demonstrate understanding of ethics, UK law and code of practice and guidelines
- Knowledge of issues and legislation relating to the prevention and control of infection.
- Experience of undertaking audit and its implementation
- Act as a role Model
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eve Spiers
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for IPC and AMS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 078166 03288
- Additional information
0300 422 5042
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