Head of Infection Prevention and Control - Lanark, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom - NHS National Services Scotland

Description

The post holder will lead and oversee NHS Lanarkshire's compliance with and contribution to local, regional and national developments in healthcare associated infection policy and guidelines.

This will be achieved by strategic planning to ensure that there are risk assessed and effective structures and processes in place across NHS Lanarkshire.

The post holder is responsible for initiating, establishing and maintaining effective whole systems approach to the management and prevention of healthcare associated infection ensuring compliance with all national guidance, standards and directives and ensuring the systematic provision of a high quality specialist Infection Prevention and Control service.

The aim being to minimise the risk of infection to patients, staff and carers ensuring NHS Lanarkshire is at the forefront of the development and implementation of best practice.

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in in both North and South Lanarkshire.

NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

Registered Healthcare professional with registration with relevant regulatory body
Be able to demonstrate knowledge of NHS Scotland's Leadership Qualities framework or equivalent framework.
Management knowledge gained through experience and continuous professional development.
Experience of assessing training needs.
Experience of resource management i.e. financial; Experience in service planning, project management and performance monitoring/reporting.
Knowledge and experience of needs assessment and analysis/interpretation of related data.
Contract type
Permanent
Full time
The working pattern for this role will be Monday - Friday

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contactLewis Melvin, HR Recruitment Systems and Project Leadon (Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)
Why NHS Lanarkshire?
A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service
A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension )
Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
Employee Counselling services
Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling.

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In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society.

A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children's setting/secure unit.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required thismust be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at .
Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer.

NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.