Infection Prevention & Control Care Champion Nomination Form

By completing the details below:

• Agree to support the service in ensuring good Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices are adopted and maintained in all clinical and non-clinical areas.
• Agree to help create and maintain an environment which will reduce the risk of infection to patients/residents, their relatives, health and social care workers. This will be achieved by using IPC knowledge, communication skills.
• Agree to support all staff (including trained, non-trained, cleaners/caretakers, activity coordinators, administrative and reception) on matters concerned with IPC and become a role model initiating best practice in IPC issues within their working area.
• Ensure that staff working within their area are updated in IPC accredited training (recommend annual training), new IPC initiatives and in order to accomplish this they will act as a resource/named person for IPC within their area.
• Undertake/participate in audits/action plans and disseminate relevant information, audit results and actions to team members, work together with their manager and have regular 1:1 meetings to improve practice where applicable.
• All Infection Prevention and Control Care Champions are expected to attend IPC Forums regularly.

Data Protection:
In completing this form, you understand that Lancashire County Council has a requirement to process your personal data. It does so for the purposes of auditing, monitoring of trends and making sure that the care home is compliant with Health and Social Care Act (2012).
Lancashire County Council will only ever process your personal data where it has a clear lawful basis for doing so in full compliance with data protection legislation - UK GDPR and The Data Protection Act (2018).
We will ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal data at all times. For full details of how Lancashire County Council handles your personal data please see our privacy notice here:
https://www.lancashire.gov.uk/council/transparency/access-to-information/privacy-notice/

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