Job summary
- Main area
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7423496JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £38,682- £46,580 per annum
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse/Practitioner-Infection Prevention and Control.
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a registered healthcare professional to join a busy award winning proactive infection prevention and control team, providing support and advice for staff across acute and community settings. The post provides significant opportunities for development as an individual. This post will provide the chosen candidate with a unique opportunity to join our team and make a difference.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within a multi disciplinary team comprising of Infection Prevention and Control Nurses, microbiologists, laboratory staff and administration staff to provide professional advice to all disciplines of staff relating to Infection Control Practice and Policies. The post holder will be responsible for promoting and developing good practice in the field of infection control. Daily tasks include surveillance; training, audit and assisting in the management of outbreaks of infection. Ensuring that these are implemented, delivered and evaluated in line with governmental directives and local policies.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To liaise, motivate and negotiate with all trust staff on issues regarding infection control. To liaise with outside agencies e.g. business representatives, regarding infection control issues, new products etc. Required to communicate and understand confidential highly contentious, emotive, complex and sensitive information. This involves effectively communicating with all grades of staff internally and externally in a sensitive manner. This also includes dealing with members of the public, including carers and relatives. Demonstrable the ability to analyse and judge complex situations and facts which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. Act as patients advocate in all matters relating to the patients care, treatment and welfare. Visit patients’ and their families within departments acting as a link between staff and themselves in relation to infection control issues. Selects and initiates appropriate actions to prevent and control infection and uses professional judgment in recognizing and challenging poor practice. Provides specialist advice and makes decisions on the management of complex cases for patients/clients and staff. Audit and monitor adherence to infection control policies through departmental audit. Maintain clinical skills through clinical placements on a regular basis to inform expert advice and maintain professional code of practice. Give specialist advice to clinical/non clinical areas regarding equipment and its decontamination. Acts as a supervisor for students of various disciplines. Responsible for the delivery of training programmes to all trust staff. Actively promotes evidence based practice and the value of audit and research to other healthcare professionals. Maintain and improve professional knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with national and local policies and local guidance, to ensure the delivery of evidence based practice.
Person specification
Qualifications/Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, Midwife or Allied Healthcare Professional
- Teaching certificate ENB 998/PP126/127/C&G730 or active Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate Diploma in a relevant field of practice
- ENB 329 or equivalent infection control nursing qualification desirable
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in specialty
- Experience of working autonomously
Desirable criteria
- I.C. nursing qualification
Other
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving license and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role.
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
- Shelley Goodson
- Job title
- Senior Infection Prevention and Control Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529742
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