Associate Director of Infection, Prevention and Control (IPC)

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Alder Hey, we are looking to recruit an Associate Director of IPC and welcome applications from interested candidates.

You will be an innovative and enthusiastic individual who will be integral in delivering our strategic vision for IPC. The IPC programme will be built on a foundation of data integrity and evidence-based practices to impact and reshape the way that health care is delivered to prevent patient harm and create a safer environment for patients and staff. This corporate role presents a great opportunity for a senior health care leader to have real impact in encouraging positive system and behaviour change to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people (CYP).

We are seeking an ambitious, creative and forward-thinking professional, keen to build on our vision to achieve healthcare without avoidable infections. Positioned within a supportive and multi professional integrated team you will be expected to demonstrate strong leadership and change management skills and work with partners at a senior level.

Striving to improve the health of CYP, you will be skilled, resilient and creative in your approach to problem solving. It is essential you are a team player, have excellent people and leadership skills and the ability to work with colleagues across the breadth and depth the organisation. Applicants must have outstanding analytical and communication skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload.

The Associate Director of Infection Prevention Control (ADIPC) has strategic leadership and management responsibility for the ongoing development and sustainability of a high quality and innovative infection prevention and control service for the Trust.

The Post Holder Will Have Significant Trust Wide Responsibility With Respect To Developing, Leading And Directing The Trust’s Programme To Reduce Healthcare-associated Infections As Established In National And Local Trajectories. This Includes Leadership And Strategic Direction To The Following Areas

• Development and delivery of strategy and improvement programmes to achieve national infection reduction targets.
• Achieving excellent clinical infection prevention practices by all staff groups.
• Improving environmental cleanliness, to meet and exceed minimum national standards.
• Antimicrobial stewardship.
• Emergency planning in relation to infectious agents.
• Infection outbreak and incident management.
• Environmental aspects of IPC such as water and ventilation safety.
• IPC leadership.
  
  

The post holder will work in complex partnerships with sites and areas across and outside the Trust to develop a strategic approach for the provision of services with infection prevention embedded at their core.

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Veronica Greenwood Job title: Acting Director of AHPs Email address: [email protected]

Please Also Contact

Dr Beatriz Larru,

Director of IPC

[email protected]