Director-Infection Prevention Community Hospitals

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Job Requisition ID:

R00051880

Job Category:

Nursing

Organization:

Grenada and Holmes Human Resources

Location/s:

UMMC-Grenada

Job Title:

Director-Infection Prevention Community Hospitals

Job Summary:

To manage the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation/continuous improvement of infection prevention and control program. To perform job duties in accordance with the university hospital & health system's purpose. To provide administration of daily operations of the infection prevention department. To ensure that the annual infection prevention plan is evidence based and provides prevention, surveillance, and control for the organization in accordance with regulatory standards.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, Microbiology, Public Health, Epidemiology, or related field and ten (10) years of acute care hospital experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required: Mississippi R.N. LICENSE preferred. Certification in Infection Control (CIC) preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Data entry skills, demonstrated sound clinical judgement, integrity, effective leadership skills, and excellent communication skills. Proven skills in human relations, communications, and change theory application: demonstrated effectiveness in collaboration with physicians.

Responsibilities

• Ensures and coordinates the efforts of infection control, employee health, hospital staff, and state department of health in managing epidemiologically significant events and exposures and limiting the spread of communicable infections and infectious disease.
• Collaborates with and makes recommendation to leadership and departmental staff to ensure compliance with regulatory and departmental policies and procedures. Maintains the flow of information regarding all infection control issues.
• Ensures timely and accurate completion of all routine reports and projects including the department's participation in RCAS as appropriate.
• Identifies and implements infection control goals and objectives related to surveillance, data analysis and reporting, infection prevention, and control practices that eliminate potential hazards and reduce the risks of and prevention of healthcare associated infections in patients, employees and visitors.
• Provides overall operational leadership for the department and provides consultation on the appropriate selection of products and equipment.
• Serves as an internal consultant/expert on infection control; pursues excellence in influencing, supporting, and improving the quality of healthcare through the practice management of infection control, education, and the application of epidemiology principles and research.
• Prepares, delivers, and ensures compliance to budget. Leads educational objectives directed at intervention to reduce infectious risk for the hospital and healthcare system.
• Ensures that monitors are in place for the hospital environment to ensure appropriate cleanliness and to reduce the potential for transference of infections.
• Maintains the flow of information to departmental staff of any and all issues pertaining to or arising from continuous survey readiness personnel, state and federal department of health personnel, and joint commission.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, occasional exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, occasional travelling to offsite locations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 75 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, occasional twisting. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

Yes

Pay Class:

Salary

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Day

Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

No

Job Posting Date:

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):