Job summary
- Main area
- Infection Prevention
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5/6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7122849
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- Salary dependent on experience
- Closing
- 12/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Infection Prevention Nurse (Band 5/6 depending in experience)
NHS AfC: Band 5/6
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
Are you a Band 5 looking for a development post in the field of infection prevention and control or a Band 6 with relevant experience/qualification in infection prevention and control?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Infection Prevention Nurse to join our dedicated Infection Prevention Team to deliver specialist advice, education and services within Airedale NHS Hospital Foundation Trust.
You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and motivate others, have appropriate clinical and managerial experience at ward or department level and be computer literate. You must also have good organisational skills and be able to demonstrate you can work individually or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
A clear development plan will be put in place for any successful candidate at Band 5 on how to progress into the Band 6 role.
Main duties of the job
- Support the provision of comprehensive infection prevention and control services to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and associated health care providers.
- Support, develop and implement systems to improve the quality of infection prevention and control management by the delivery of national directives to develop local quality, patient safety and safe systems of working for staff.
- Provide specialist advice on infection prevention and control practice
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience
- Significant experience in infection prevention role (Band 6)
- Evidence of personal development
- Practice within guidelines and protocols to deliver high quality infection prevention service
Desirable criteria
- Infection prevention experience e.g. Link worker role/IPC Champion
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Level 1)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Willing to undertake qualification in Infection Prevention and Control (Band 5)
- Recognised qualification in Infection Prevention and Control (Band 6)
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course/qualification
- Educational qualification
- Teaching/assessor/mentor qualification
- Relevant post qualifications study at degree or equivalent level
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of National Health Service agenda in relation to infection prevention and control and Public Health
- Infection Prevention Nurse competencies (Band 6)
- Excellent understanding of infection prevention and control issues (Band 6)
- Application of research in practice
- Clinical audit - ability to analyse information and make recommendations (Band 6)
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course/qualification
Other
Essential criteria
- Access to transport
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
- Arlene Beausire
- Job title
- Lead Nurse Infection Prevention
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294848
- Additional information
Laura Forysthe
01535 294848
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