Band 6 Practice Educator Infection Prevention and Control | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Band 6 Practice Educator Infection prevention and Control for Royal Free hospital An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Infection Prevention and Control Team (IPCT) - We are looking for enthusiastic, proactive, motivated and/or experienced infection prevention & control nurse to take up a post within our IPCT. The post holder will base at Royal Free hospital which is part of the Royal Free London group. This would be an ideal opportunity for a dynamic, confident, and highly motivated nurse wishing to further their career in a specialist and pivotal field within healthcare. It's an exciting time to join our friendly, proactive, productive and awarding winning team. The role is interesting and tasks include daily patient ward rounds, proactive advice giving to patients/staff/visitors, problem solving, undertaking audits, infection surveillance, outbreak management and teaching. This post requires travelling to other trust premises and therefore candidates must be able to get around the trust sites in a timely and efficient manner. You must have enthusiasm to continue professional self-development and development of others. You will need to demonstrate your expertise and the contribution you can make to building a team, maintaining and improving trust infection rates and leading the trust forward as a centre of world class care. Main activities

• contribute to annual IPC programme and work plan such as undertaking clinical skill
competence assessments
• continuing professional development
• training for support and non-clinical staff.
• undertaking preparation for inspections by the Care Quality Commission and other external
bodies.
• act as a IPC team member in an advisory capacity for clinical practice queries
• emergency duties such as staff practice for 'outbreak management'
• ward visits to advise on IPC practice and train at 'the bed-side'
• advise out-patient staff and patients on IPC practice.
• act as role model for trust staff
• patient-related administration linked to clinical work,
• develop best practice at grass roots level across the clinical divisions and across clinical
teams
• develop a culture of patient safety and 'zero tolerance' of healthcare acquired infections
• systematic assessment and development of training needs in relation to infection prevention
and control core practices for all members of the multidisciplinary team (MDT)
• deliver training and assessing clinical competence in the clinical setting for members of the
MDT
• develop the role of clinical champion for hand hygiene and best infection prevention and
control (IPC) practice. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests. Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top.