Clinical Nurse/Practitioner - Infection Prevention and Control
NHS AfC: Band 6
- Infection Prevention and Control
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- 12 months (End date of secondment to be confirmed)
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- Part time
- Flexible working
- 319-7510829GH-HAS
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- North Shields
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Yearly
- 30/10/2025 23:59
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
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
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.
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Job overview
This is an exciting secondment 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 for a 12 month secondment and make a difference.
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.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
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. Demonstrate the ability to analyse and judge complex situations and facts which require analysis and interpretation and comparison of a range of options. Act as the 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. Select and initiate appropriate actions to prevent and control infection and uses professional judgment in recognising and challenging poor practice. Provide 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. Act 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 Infection Control Qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in a specialty
- Experience of working autonomously
Desirable criteria
- Infection Control Qualification
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Maintain and improve professional knowledge, skills and competence to ensure the delivery of evidence based practice.
- 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. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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
- Ania Swann
- Job title
- Lead Nurse, Infection Prevention and Control
- Email address
- ania.swann@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- ext.112385
- Additional information
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Additional contact: Ruth Henein, Head of Infection Prevention and Control, contact telephone number ext.110841
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