Community Infection Control and Prevention Nurse

at  NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

To assist health and social care professionals and carers to comply and maintain compliance with the Health and Social Care Act and Code of Practice on the prevention of infection via the following: Advisory and Support the community IPC Service will: Provide specialised and bespoke IPC advice to provide support to Care Homes/ Domiciliary Care, Supported Living & Extra Care/Short Break Homes/Places of supported accommodation for vulnerable people (e.g., Homeless and asylum seeker settings)/ Special Schools/ Nurseries/Childrens homes/. Support settings to comply with IPC national requirements, by providing specialist IPC advice and support (but not general outbreak management support, for example norovirus, influenza). Provide clinical advice on an ad hoc basis in relation to alert organisms and multi-drug resistant organisms to providers. Facilitate safe discharge from acute settings to the community by providing specialist advice and support to providers and working in collaboration with colleagues in Acute Settings.
Visit settings to provide support where a concern has been identified by either SY ICB, SCC colleagues or the CQC. Outbreak Management Support In collaboration with the UKHSA Health Protection Team provide outbreak management support for specific alert organisms, for example C.difficile, MRSA, Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales (CPE) and assess what additional support may be required. Undertake local surveillance (in relation to outbreak management support) in conjunction with UKHSA colleagues. To implement the actions needed to control the spread of communicable disease and to assist the UKHSA Health Protection Team in the investigation and management of a major outbreak within the SYICB area.
Training and Guidance To support the development and delivery of training packages to community providers with the aim to embed IPC knowledge and improve practices within services. To plan and organise IPC training and deliver to settings and evaluate the effect. Adapt these packages as required in line with the evaluation. Develop to clear, setting-specific guidance for settings and promote national campaigns (including antibiotic awareness week and world hand hygiene day) Plan and organise an IPC link programme in community settings in Sheffield.
Implement policies and propose changes to IPC practices which will improve the service and the client outcome. Audit To support the development of an IPC audit programme with an aim to support to develop providers to undertake a credible-self assessment audit in the long term. To undertake a face-to-face audit where a need has been identified and communicate the findings in a motivational way to support improvement within the setting. Communication and Collaboration Provide and receive information requiring you to give specialist advice whilst addressing barriers and dealing with conflict in an understanding in a sensitive manner.
Facilitate effective working relationships with colleagues in community settings and related stakeholders and communicate sensitive information in an empathetic and understanding way and provide guidance and training where barriers to understanding are identified. Escalate concerns and report serious incidents associated with infection to appropriate colleagues in SCC and to the SY ICB (Sheffield). Compile accurate reports containing sensitive information in relation to IPC in community settings. To liaise with other IPC Practitioners in NHS Northeast Region and participate in South Yorkshire Infection Control Networks.
Internal Working Relationships (at Sheffield Place Level): Lead Infection Prevention and Control Nurse Senior Quality Managers Quality Team Quality in Care Homes Team Chief Nurse Deputy Chief Nurse Deputy Chief Nurse SYICB, Director of Nursing (Sheffield and Barnsley. Account Managers Medicines Optimization Management Team Communications Team Complaints Team Finance and Procurement Teams Lead Professionals for Safeguarding External Working Relationships; Infection Prevention and Control Leads and Teams of Acute Trust Providers Infection Prevention and Control Leads of SYICB Places and other community organisations. Consultant Microbiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Director of Public Health and Public Health Representatives (SCC) UKHSA Continued Professional Development Participate in the annual appraisal process. Undertake professional and personal development as required.
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