Job summary
- Main area
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 321-CORP-7056986-B8d-PUB
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £88,168 - £101,677 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 23/06/2025
Employer heading
Infection Prevention and Control Lead and Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join and lead the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH).
As the Lead and Manager of Infection Prevention and Control you will report to and work closely with, and deputise as appropriate for the Director of Infection Prevention and Control. You will provide the highest profile leadership to ensure compliance with the Health and Social Care Act. The post holder will be visible and accessible, working across all Trust sites. The post holder will lead and manage a large multi-disciplinary team to ensure a high-quality Infection Prevention and Control 7-day service across OUH.
The IPC team benefits strong Executive level support at OUH, and the post holder will be an integral member of the Chief Medical Officer’s Team. The IPC team has unique access to the combined expertise of the ID/Microbiology Consultant team together with the Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics | NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre to investigate healthcare associated infection and manage outbreaks in collaboration with Oxford University. Activation as airborne HCID regional facility as part of the national HCID network is anticipated in April 2025.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will practice at an advanced level demonstrating a high level of autonomy and clinical decision-making in Infection Prevention and Control matters. The post is available to clinicians educated to Masters (or equivalent) level who have evidence of infection prevention and control qualification and significant clinical practice in this specialist field of work within an acute hospital.
The post holder will ensure there is an innovative, collaborative multi-disciplinary service which effectively maintains a strong commitment to evidence-based practice, world leading research, and effective management and leadership, as enablers to deliver high quality infection prevention and control for patients and staff.
Provide expert leadership in all aspects of infection prevention and control across all Trust sites and work collaboratively with Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire (BOB) integrated care system (ICS).
Proposed interview dates:
Value Based Interviews will be held w/c 23 June and the technical interview on 4 July.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Be responsible for setting and supporting the objectives of the Infection Prevention and Control Team and providing the assurance to the Trust Board (through the Director of Infection Prevention and Control) that best practice is being achieved across the organisation.
- Work across professional and organisational boundaries to develop local services that meet national and international benchmarks. As necessary, lead on behaviour change to implement and sustain continuous quality improvement in infection prevention and control
· Lead and manage the infection prevention and control team. The wider infection prevention and control team includes data management, High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID), sepsis, decontamination and continence specialist team members. Develop the professional roles of its members to be able to respond independently to critical incidents and unanticipated challenges, where necessary in collaboration with the relevant professional leads.
· Represent the Infection Prevention and Control service at meetings locally, regionally and nationally and deputise for the DIPC as appropriate.
- Produce high quality written and verbal reports including the Infection Prevention and Control Plan and the Annual Infection Prevention and Control Report, together with regular reports for the Hospital Infection Prevention and Control Committee and the Trust Board, according to required deadlines.
· Provide IPC advice on new builds, premises and refurbishment projects in conjunction with the Estates and facilities department and relevant specialities to meet the national guidance and local standards.
· Develop improved surveillance in all aspects of infection prevention and control. The focus will be on continuous quality improvement; key areas will be antimicrobial management (in collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist in Antimicrobial Stewardship), surgical site infection surveillance, other healthcare associated infections for example ventilator associated infection and catheter associated urinary tract infections, and the monitoring of antimicrobial resistance.
· Develop policy, standards, protocols, systems and competence for managing evidence-based care, utilising leadership and change management skills.
· Take a leading role in clinical governance, providing expert input to secure continuous quality improvement across all Divisions. Lead on preparations for relevant elements of National Peer Review programmes, Care Quality Commission Inspections, and other external professional, commissioner or regulator reviews.
- Assimilate and synthesise research-based evidence into infection control practice. Championing new developments in health care by translating policy and research evidence to inform patient care and service delivery.
· Provide advice in the Trust procurement and tendering process in matters pertaining to infection prevention and control to ensure a balance between best financial value and best quality value in medical equipment, consumables, and resource provision for the Trust, including soft services facilities management.
· Manage the budget for infection prevention and control, including the CPD budget, keeping establishment and service developments under review, with regular meetings with the allocated Finance Manager.
· The post holder is required to work flexibly within the IPC team structure to ensure that a comprehensive service is provided to the Trust. This may include weekends or Bank holidays during declared major infection outbreaks.
· A full job description and person specification is included in the recruitment pack.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Healthcare Professional (if a Nurse, part 1,8,12 or 15 of register depending on area of practice)
- Evidence of significant clinical and managerial development in the field
- Evidence of significant academic development in the field, e.g. Masters Infection Control/Public Health
- Masters (HEI level 7)
- Degree in a health-related discipline
- Evidence of significant post-registration development in the field, including extensive continuing professional development
- Leadership training
- Experience of teaching at undergraduate and post-graduate level in clinical settings
- Training in the management of water, ventilation and decontamination in a healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree eg Doctorate
- Teaching qualifications ENB 998, Cert. Ed. or equivalent
- Leadership qualification
- Qualification in water, ventilation and decontamination matters
- Coaching skills
Technical Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literate with experience of working with the Microsoft Office package
- Advanced keyboard skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- A reputation for professional excellence that is sufficient to be acknowledged as an expert in the field
- Evidence of effective leadership and operational management in a senior position that is multi-disciplinary and Trust wide in a complex healthcare organisation
- Ability to demonstrate a clear vision for the role and the service
- Ability to lead, initiate, sustain and evaluate change including policy and clinical guideline adoption.
- Evidence of implementation and contribution to the development of policies within the field.
- Have a highly specialist knowledge which allows judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.
- Experience of clinical Governance and Risk
- Experience in business planning and financial management as relevant to infection, prevention and control
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of innovative leadership
- Demonstrate ability to contribute new knowledge to the field
- Current Good Clinical Practice Certificate
- Evidence of undertaking and leading health services research
- Significant record of publications or other forms of disseminating information, including presentations at national and/or international conferences
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of collaboration and co-operation with others in a team
- High levels of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work and communicate effectively within multi-disciplinary teams and forums, and across professional boundaries
- Problem solving, strategic thinking/decision maker
- Critical analyser and interpreter of highly complex and potentially contentious data
- Influencing skills
- Ability to inspire, motivate and persuade others, overcoming barriers often in contentious issues and circumstances
- Good organisational and prioritisation skills of complex workload
- Ability to manage complex and competing issues whilst staying calm under pressure
- Experience of managing a successfully performing team
Other
Essential criteria
- Willing to undertake further education and training to meet the requirements of the post
- Commitment to maintain personal fitness to practice
- Ability to work flexibly and reactively as well as strategically
- Ability to work for prolonged periods using a VDU depending on service requirements.
- Flexibility is required with the ability to work between desks in different buildings on different sites
- Holder of a current UK driving license or other ability to travel to other Trust sites
Behavioural Skills
Essential criteria
- Conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy McDermott
- Job title
- CMO Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865572415
- Additional information
Full time: 37.5 hours per week and is a hospital-based post.
Proposed interview dates:
VBI - w/c Monday 23/06
Technical - Friday 04/07
For further details / informal visits please contact: Katie Jeffery, Director of Infection Prevention and Control – [email protected]
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