Clinical Nurse Specialist: Infection Prevention and Control

Position Type: Permanent, part‑time (0.8 FTE) within the Quality & Risk team.

Responsibilities

• Stewardship of Braemar’s IPC Programme, regularly reviewing to ensure currency.
• Act as nursing resource to provide expert advice and education to staff, patients and whānau.
• Consult with clinical staff to implement and evaluate infection prevention measures for staff and patients with infectious diseases.
• Contribute to implementation of systems that collect, analyse and recommend improvements to IPC practices across departments.
• Engage organisationally to enhance IPC practices and capacity.
• Ensure new employees receive screening and orientation specific to infection prevention.
• Support the business to identify and address IPC issues promptly.
• Complete daily MDRO surveillance of booked admissions.

Qualificatio...