# Head of Built Environment IPC

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £88,250 to £100,355 a year pa inclusive
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an exceptional and experienced IPC leader to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as our Head of Built Environment IPC.

This is a rare 24-month opportunity to bring your IPC expertise to some of the Trust's most complex and important built environment work.

Working alongside the Director and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control, you will provide expert leadership across healthcare redevelopment, capital projects, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental risk management.

Collaboration is central to this role. As part of the senior IPC leadership team, you will work across the Trust, influencing key decisions and ensuring infection prevention is at the heart of how we develop and transform our healthcare environments.

We are looking for an experienced registered healthcare professional with strong senior-level IPC expertise, sound judgement and the ability to build relationships, manage complex risks and bring people together to deliver improvement.

**Main duties of the job**

- You will provide strategic leadership for the Trust-wide built environment infection prevention and control portfolio, ensuring effective governance, assurance and risk management across healthcare infrastructure, redevelopment, water safety, ventilation, decontamination and environmental IPC programmes.

- Working closely with senior clinical, operational, estates and facilities colleagues, you will ensure infection prevention requirements are embedded throughout capital developments, refurbishment projects, service reconfigurations and operational activities.

- You will provide authoritative specialist advice, undertake complex risk assessments, oversee assurance arrangements and support the identification, mitigation and escalation of significant infection prevention risks.

- The role includes leading the development of strategy, policy and assurance frameworks; contributing specialist expertise to incident and outbreak management where environmental factors are relevant; and supporting organisational improvement through audit, education, research and innovation.

- You will represent the IPC service at senior internal and external forums and contribute to executive and Board-level reporting and assurance processes.

- You will provide professional leadership to staff within your portfolio, build effective partnerships across organisational boundaries and drive continuous improvement in infection prevention practice.

**Benefits**

- Career development

- Flexible working

- Wellbeing

- Staff recognition scheme

- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities

**Person Specification**

- Registered healthcare professional with a statutory regulator e.g. GMC, NMC, GPhC etc.

- Formal postgraduate qualification in IPC

- Educated to master's level, working toward this or comparable experience

- Postgraduate Management development/qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience

- Evidence of continued professional development

**Experience**

- Substantial practical experience of providing senior IPC advice and assurance in relation to the built environment, including water safety, ventilation, decontamination, estates works and capital or redevelopment schemes.

- Experience of identifying, communicating and escalating significant or emerging risks, including challenging senior stakeholders and securing delivery of corrective actions across organisational boundaries

- Substantial senior experience at a senior clinical level leading and delivering services

- Significant IPC experience

- Extensive experience of implementing quality systems and benchmarking

## Skills

### Required
- Infection Prevention and Control
- IPC expertise
- healthcare design
- estates
- patient safety
- strategic leadership
- risk management
- audit
- education
- research
- innovation

### Nice to have
- PhD/Professional Doctorate
- Professional publications PRINCE
- Project/Programme management qualification

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