Job overview

As a valued member of the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Team, you will provide expert advice, guidance and support to clinical and non-clinical staff on all aspects of infection prevention, surveillance and control. You will play a key role in promoting a culture of patient safety and supporting the organisation's commitment to reducing healthcare-associated infections.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across a range of services, you will support the implementation of national and local infection prevention initiatives, policies and best practice guidance. You will contribute to surveillance programmes, ensuring the accurate collection, analysis and reporting of infection-related data to support quality improvement and regulatory compliance.

The role requires a proactive and visible presence within clinical services, acting as an IPC role model and providing support, challenge and education to staff at all levels. You will work alongside care teams to identify risks, promote best practice, and support continuous improvement in infection prevention standards across the organisation.

As an effective communicator, you will build strong relationships with multidisciplinary teams, helping to embed evidence-based infection prevention practices and deliver the highest standards of patient care.

Main duties of the job

Infection Prevention Specialist

As an Infection Prevention Specialist, you will provide expert IPC advice, support and education across Provide Group, working with clinical and non-clinical teams to reduce healthcare-associated infections, manage risks and improve patient safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist IPC advice and support across services.
• Support national and local IPC policies, standards and surveillance programmes.
• Undertake audits, analyse data and identify risks, trends and improvement opportunities.
• Support infection incident and outbreak investigation and management.
• Deliver IPC education, training and awareness programmes.
• Contribute to the annual IPC Programme, improvement plans and assurance reporting.
• Undertake clinical reviews, walkrounds and audits.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams to identify and mitigate IPC risks.
• Promote evidence-based practice, including hand hygiene, PPE and antimicrobial stewardship.
• Challenge poor practice and support regulatory compliance.
• Champion patient safety, learning and continuous improvement.

About You

You will be a registered healthcare professional with an interest in IPC, patient safety and quality improvement. You will have strong communication, influencing and analytical skills, with the ability to work collaboratively, interpret data, provide evidence-based advice and support sustainable change. Experience in IPC, audit, surveillance, education or quality improvement is desirable.

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.