Due to retirement, an exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the Infection Prevention and Control / Tissue Viability team at Manchester University Foundation Trust. We are seeking to appoint an accomplished, experienced Infection Prevention nurse with strong management skills and speciality knowledge.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing support, act as an expert advisory resource, and deputise for the lead nurse in their absence. If you consider yourself to be a highly motivated, enthusiastic individual with demonstrable speciality experience within Infection Prevention, and you possess strong leadership skills then we would like to hear from you.

The Infection Prevention / Tissue Viability team deliver a 7-day service during the hours of 08 - 17.00. The successful candidate will be predominantly based at the Oxford Road Campus.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will ensure the key functions of the Matron for Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability Nursing are undertaken for the Trust through effective and clear leadership, ensuring the monitoring and maintenance of robust Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability standards of practice are maintained and embedded within the Trust. Ensuring key processes are in place to support all Trust employees, patients, and visitors with maintaining required standards in order to delivery harm free care to our users and protection of our employees. Oversee the delivery of multi professional training programmes, surveillance, collaborative multidisciplinary working, interagency working and contributing to clinical governance arrangements across the Trust.

The successful person will manage a team of Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability Nurses across the locality providing day to day line management and supervision.

As an integral part of the Trust's Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability Team the post holder will provide advice and support and act as an expert advisory resource.

The successful candidate will support the Lead Nurses for Infection Control/Tissue Viability in the management, leadership and development of the Infection Prevention and Control/Tissue Viability Nursing Service, deputising for the Lead Nurse Infection Control/Tissue Viability as required.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse on NMC register.

Desirable

• Appropriate management or leadership courses.
• Speciality qualification.

Knowledge and experience

Essential

• Appropriate experience senior clinical position.
• Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change.
• Evidence of professional leadership leading to innovation in practice.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Line management experience.
• Experience in complaints management.
• Experience in clinical audit / benchmarking.

Desirable

• Experience of research activity.

Skills and ability

Essential

• Highly developed communication skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Evidence of clinical governance and risk management activities.
• Negotiating and influencing skills.
• IT / word processing skills.
• Able to demonstrate contribution of nursing role to clinical effectiveness.

Attributes

Essential

• Highly developed interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate Trust values and behaviours and act as a role model to others.
• Flexibility

Desirable

• Team player.

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel across all MFT sites.

Desirable

• Car owner / driver.

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford Road Campus

Cobbett House Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Oxford Road Manchester M13 9WL

Manchester

M13 9WL

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