Head of Infection Prevention and Control
- Employer
- Finegreen
- Location
- Wales
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 11 Oct 2024
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- Sector
- Acute Trust
- Job Type
- Contract
- Category
- Nursing, Operations & Performance
Job Details
Key responsibilities:
- Key position within the senior management team, assuming overall responsibility for the expert provision of specialist IPC advice and guidance, for all staff and leaders across the organisation;
- Provide day to day leadership, direction to IPC staff, and monitor and implement on-going improvement in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls, and resource constraints;
- Strategic lead for IPC, providing leadership to operational teams and clinical staff who must deliver Trust services and patient care within IPC statutory requirements and cleanliness standards;
- Lead on the development of infection prevention and control strategy and plans, ensuring engagement of all staff groups, patients/service users, and external organisation where appropriate;
- Responsible for delivering improvement in IPC performance, working with colleagues across the organisation to implement change and innovation ensuring the organisation is providing services that ensure infection prevention control practices are embedded, safe and effective;
- Providing visible professional leadership, networking, and formal & informal education and training with staff and peers in partner organisations to deliver the corporate IPC agenda and influence new ways of working.
Registered Clinician (NMC or HCPC active pin);
Demonstrates knowledge of Infection Prevent Control to Master’s level, achieved through relevant professional qualifications or equivalent level of practical experience in an IPC role;
Management/supervision qualification, or equivalent level of experience providing management and leadership;
Comprehensive knowledge of national infection control policies and guidance;
Strategic and political awareness of infection prevention and control policy/practice across UK healthcare bodies.
If you are interested in the role, please contact Donna Larder on 0161 2419674 or send your to CV to donna.larder@finegreen.co.uk
Company
Put simply, we help our clients to recruit the best possible people to lead, manage and direct their organisations. Since launching in 2005 we have become an award winning, market-leading consultancy focusing on both public and private sector Healthcare recruitment.
Leadership skills have rarely been at such a premium - as organisations across both public and private sectors attempt to improve services and standards at a time of widespread change and unprecedented financial constraints.
Like other leading executive recruiters, Finegreen has developed a pool of talent built up over many years, along with established networks, to ensure that right-match candidates get to hear about relevant positions. Where Finegreen differs from many others, is in its willingness to spend quality time with clients - to gain an in-depth knowledge of roles being filled and their importance to an organisation.
Over the last 17 years in the Healthcare market, Finegreen has developed into a Virgin Fast Track top 100 company - and was voted Recruiter of the Year at the Health Investor Awards, Top small to medium sized business at the Best Business Awards, and featured in Recruiter’s Top 10 Public Sector Recruitment providers.
- Website
- http://www.finegreen.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0345 130 4006
- Location
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Finegreen
Manchester
Lancashire
M12 6JH
United Kingdom
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