Associate Chief Nurse / Director of Infection Prevention & Control
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Associate Chief Nurse / Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC) to join our team.
This role is crucial in shaping and executing our infection prevention and control strategy, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and safety.
More details below but for further information on this role and how to apply, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Head of Executive Search on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com or 07966 006091
Main duties of the job
In this senior leadership role, you will deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer, providing expert guidance and support in all matters related to infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, and environmental risks. You will develop and sustain a high-quality, innovative IPC service, collaborating with senior IPC team members and colleagues across the Trust.
You will lead the design, development, and delivery of strategies to achieve national and local infection targets, ensuring safe and compliant standards for decontamination, antimicrobial stewardship, and outbreak management. Your role includes improving environmental cleanliness and managing risks such as water and ventilation safety.
As a visible and accessible clinical leader, you will build and motivate teams, ensuring IPC practices are integrated into care delivery. You will manage the IPC team, overseeing recruitment, training, and performance, and ensure robust assurance frameworks are in place to drive improvements in IPC practice.
Collaboration with external agencies, academic partners, and healthcare organizations is essential. You will lead the Trusts engagement with these stakeholders, ensuring alignment and sharing best practices. Operational responsibilities include preparing regular reports, managing IPC-related incidents, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
If you are ready for this challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our Trust recognises the importance of promoting equality and eliminating discrimination in all aspects of our operations, from recruitment and employment practices to patient care and service delivery. We are dedicated to upholding the principles of fairness, justice, and equity, ensuring that every member of our diverse community receives the highest standard of care and support. We especially welcome applications from global majority candidates, or those with lived experience of a disability, to strengthen the diversity of our Trust so that it is representative of our team and the local population we serve.
A Full Job Description can be found attached to this job listing in the Supporting Information section.
For further information on this role and how to apply, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Head of Executive Search onfmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.comor 07966 006091
Person Specification
Person Spec and How to apply
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
C9365-24-0323
This role is crucial in shaping and executing our infection prevention and control strategy, ensuring the highest standards of patient care and safety.
More details below but for further information on this role and how to apply, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Head of Executive Search on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com or 07966 006091
Main duties of the job
In this senior leadership role, you will deputise for the Chief Nursing Officer, providing expert guidance and support in all matters related to infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, and environmental risks. You will develop and sustain a high-quality, innovative IPC service, collaborating with senior IPC team members and colleagues across the Trust.
You will lead the design, development, and delivery of strategies to achieve national and local infection targets, ensuring safe and compliant standards for decontamination, antimicrobial stewardship, and outbreak management. Your role includes improving environmental cleanliness and managing risks such as water and ventilation safety.
As a visible and accessible clinical leader, you will build and motivate teams, ensuring IPC practices are integrated into care delivery. You will manage the IPC team, overseeing recruitment, training, and performance, and ensure robust assurance frameworks are in place to drive improvements in IPC practice.
Collaboration with external agencies, academic partners, and healthcare organizations is essential. You will lead the Trusts engagement with these stakeholders, ensuring alignment and sharing best practices. Operational responsibilities include preparing regular reports, managing IPC-related incidents, and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
If you are ready for this challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our Trust recognises the importance of promoting equality and eliminating discrimination in all aspects of our operations, from recruitment and employment practices to patient care and service delivery. We are dedicated to upholding the principles of fairness, justice, and equity, ensuring that every member of our diverse community receives the highest standard of care and support. We especially welcome applications from global majority candidates, or those with lived experience of a disability, to strengthen the diversity of our Trust so that it is representative of our team and the local population we serve.
A Full Job Description can be found attached to this job listing in the Supporting Information section.
For further information on this role and how to apply, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Head of Executive Search onfmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.comor 07966 006091
Person Specification
Person Spec and How to apply
Essential
- A full Person Specification can be found attached to this job listing in the Supporting Information section. For further information on this role and how to apply, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Finn McNulty, Head of Executive Search on fmcnulty@hunter-healthcare.com or 07966 006091
Employer details
Employer name
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
C9365-24-0323
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