Infection Prevention & Control Specialist Nurse Band 7 - COVID-19

Croydon is a busy, exciting and diverse place to work. The borough has one of the youngest populations in London and continues to grow. Croydon Health Services cares for local people at Croydon University Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital and in clinics and people’s homes all across the borough.

We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset and so through Listening into Action – our way of engaging staff - we empower everyone at any level to initiate and bring about real improvements in our care.

As a Trust, we are striving to be at the forefront for how the NHS is trying change and working in partnership with others to join up services for everyone, from the very young to the elderly.

We offer many flexible and part-time working opportunities and all of our employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, including parking, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme. We value diversity and promote equality of opportunity.

We particularly welcome applications from black, asian and minority ethnic candidates as there is an under-representation at senior level within Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic team at Croydon Health Services in providing an IPC service which covers both Acute and Community settings.

The successful candidate will need to be self-motivated, have a good work ethic, passion for IPC, demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with others.

The post holder will develop a quality, proactive, evidence based Infection Control service, to prevent and reduce the incidence of infections and implement systems to enhance patient and staff safety across the organization.

This is an exciting role to help maintain a zero tolerance of Health Care Associated Infections (HCAI) and implement a Health promotion upstream approach to changing behaviors to prevent HCAI's.

The successful candidate must also be computer literate, have good organisational skills and be able to demonstrate autonomous working and an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

For informal visits please contact Juliana Kotey, Consultant Nurse/Deputy DIPC on 0208 401 3389.