Infection Prevention Lead Nurse

Cambridge | Nursing | Permanent | Part Time

Up to £50,000 pro rata

30 hours per week

If you want to work in infection prevention and control, you’ll love this brilliant opportunity to join the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity. Alongside our Matron, you’ll take care of the day-to-day management of Infection Prevention and Control at hospital in Leamington. We’re building an incredible patient experience – and it starts with you.

As an Infection Prevention Lead Nurse at our Cambridge Hospital, you’ll be registered with the appropriate governing body and you hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including NMC.

With post-registration experience (at least two years in infection prevention and control), you’re able to carry out investigations and root cause analysis, as well as advising the clinical team.

As an Infection Prevention Lead Nurse, you will:

Liaise with the lead microbiologist and support the Matron as the DIPC

Manage the infection prevention audit schedule and lead our infection prevention link team 

Produce an annual Infection Prevention programme and train the clinical and non-clinical team

Facilitate the quality assurance review and produce the annual infection prevention report

Assist with policy development, carrying out action plans and improving best practice

Support clinical governance in the hospital

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.