Associate Chief Nurse / Director of Infection Prevention & Control

Job summary

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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