Band 6 Infection Prevention and Control Nurse; IPC RN

BHR are seeking to recruit a highly motivated Registered Nurse who has a keen interest in the field of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). This is an exciting opportunity to work with the IPC Team and the Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC) at Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust as part of a dynamic IPC team. You will support the Trust to meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 Code of practice on the prevention and control of infection and related guidance.

To work closely with the Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC), Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control (Dep. DIPC), Infection Prevention & Control Doctor (IPCD) and other Infection Prevention & Control Nurses (IPCNs) in the planning, provision and promotion of a comprehensive Infection Control Service for BHRUT.

• Identify, investigate and monitor infections and hazardous practices/procedures. Work with the IPCD in the investigation and control of outbreaks of hospital infection.
• Act as liaison between the laboratory, medical and nursing staff to ensure appropriate management of patients in the control of infection whilst monitoring and preventing hospital acquired infection.

The post holder will rotate throughout BHRUHT to gain maximum educational benefit from all specialties within the Trust and to ensure maximum specialist cover for leave.

You will be required to support the delivery of a high-quality IPC service across all areas. Therefore, you must have a flexible approach to work, demonstrating organizational skills and be able to work to deadlines. You will be required to have good communication skills at all times.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefit ting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.