Main area Infection Prevention and Control Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE3642
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide HQ Town Colchester Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/09/2025 23:59
Job Overview
This job is an opportunity to develop in the role of becoming a specialist in matters relating to the prevention and control of infections for the safety of patient, staff and service users across the Provide services. The post holder will work as part of the infection Prevention and Control team within the Quality and safety directorate, supporting the provision of a comprehensive infection prevention service for both health and adult social care services ensuring best practice with audit programmes, surveillance systems and education and training. As part of the IPC team the post holder will act as a IPC role model with high visibility across various different services and support and challenge teams at all levels to ensure compliance with policy and procedures and requirements under the Health and Social Care Act 2025 and CQC Outcome: 8 (regulation 12 safe care and treatment) Cleanliness and infection Control.
Main duties of the job
The duties of the post will include developing specialist knowledge of Infection prevention in which to support and improve the management and quality of practice by the delivery of national directives and develop local quality, patient safety and safe systems of working. The post holder will be required to be effective communicator working with all grades of staff advising on IPC matters and develop communication that of IPC specialist in which to support and deliver IPC education and training. The role will require use of relevant IT equipment and software to assist in development of audit tools and undertake audit and surveillance in which to identify any risk to IPC safety. The role involves visiting and working across a variety of settings and services to advise on IPC and ensure that evidence based practice meets the needs of the different service user groups, in particular some services this may require clarification and explanation of microbiological results and implications on management of patient or service user. To assist with IPC practice the post holder will contribute and develop guidance/education resources and support the link practitioner Infection prevention and Control programme.
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.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
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The details of job description can be found in the available documentation attached to advert. The main responsibility of the job will be with support of specialist infection prevention nurse to accept own professional and personal development with various learning resources and reflection on practice, using own level of competence.
Person specification
1st level registered nurse
Essential criteria
- Achieved recognized nurse registration
Desirable criteria
- Experience or knowledge of working in infection control
Valid driving licence
Essential criteria
- Confirmation holder of valid UK driving licence
Further Information
How will we contact you?
- All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
- As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
- If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via [email protected]
- If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Anti Fraud
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or
[email protected].
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
