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About the Role
Manages, plans, organizes, and evaluates tertiary hospital infection prevention and control related activities and staff. Supports leadership in implementing initiatives to improve patient safety.
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership to Infection Prevention team members and supervisors by communicating and guiding toward achieving department objectives.
- Develops, communicates, and builds consensus for goals in alignment with the health system.
- Ensures implementation and evaluation of hospital's infection prevention goals, objectives, plans, policies, and procedures.
- Selects, develops, manages, and evaluates staff; prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize operational service.
- Manages hospital infection surveillance and risk assessment activities in accordance with internal and external guidelines; ensures identification and resolution of infection risks to patients, staff and community.
- Facilitates investigations on epidemiologically important infections, clusters, and exposures to identify sources.
- Reports findings to the leadership and expedites interventions and risk reduction strategies; ensures all hospital stakeholders are informed of activity.
- Provides infection prevention orientation and regular in-services to hospital staff that address standards of care, infection risks, evidence-based practices, sterilization, high/low level disinfection, hand hygiene, instrument and equipment storage, etc.
- Partners with multidiscipline team members within hospital to optimize patient care and maintain/increase compliance with infection prevention and control practices.
- Promotes proactive identification and elimination of infectious risks throughout the hospital.
- Ensures compliance with government and agency regulations; prepares for and participates in external regulatory reviews to maintain accreditation(s); maintains integrity of related conventional and computer-aided records and information.
- Maintains and models organization's values.
- Demonstrates regular, reliable and predictable attendance.
- Performs related duties as required.
Requirements
- 6-8 years of relevant experience required.
- 2-5 years of leadership/management experience required.
Skills
- Microbiology
- Medical Technology
- Public Health
- Nursing
- Infection Prevention
- Infection Control
- Patient Safety
- Leadership
- Management
- Surveillance
- Risk Assessment
- Sterilization
- Disinfection
- Hand Hygiene
- Regulatory Compliance
Location
- New York
- Connecticut
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6-8 years of relevant experience
- 2-5 years of leadership/management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Microbiology, Medical Technology, Public Health, Nursing or related field
- Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, preferred
- Current certification by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology(CBIC) within two(2)years of entry date into position
Salary/Compensations
- $52.03 - $96.62 Hourly
About the Company
- Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,001 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians.
- Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities.
- Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees — including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — who are working to change health care for the better.
- Company: Putnam Hospital Center
- Department: Infection Control