Director Infection Prevention

Core Functions

• Maintains a competent and motivated staff through proper selection, training, evaluating and termination, as necessary.
• Establishes, implements and administers departmental goals, objectives, policies and procedures; conducts ongoing review of hospital policies, procedures and guidelines to identify infection prevention and control discrepancies and implements revisions as necessary.
• Provides ongoing assessment of performance, analyzes infection outcome data, and identifies performance improvement opportunities or trends.
• Develops and coordinates the infection prevention and control program throughout the facility. Implements the program by formulating, establishing and evaluating policies and procedures relating to patient care infection prevention and control measures throughout the facility that ensure compliance with JC, OSHA, CDC, CMS and other county, state, and federal regulatory agencies.
• Serves as a resource and subject matter expert to staff, leaders, medical staff, patients and the community for infection prevention and control.
• Initiates epidemiological investigations of significant clusters of infections and single cases of unusual infection.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for the facility and system related to emerging infections, public health crisis and emergency management.
• Directs and assists in preparing reports and statistical data for the infection prevention committee, medical staff committees, medical executive committee and the facility’s administration and other committees as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires Masters in Public Health (MPH), Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) or master’s degree in other healthcare related field or bachelors degree in healthcare related field and experience equivalent to master's degree.
• Requires certification in Infection Control (CIC).
• Infection Prevention Team members working primarily in an acute or ambulatory job location will be expected to maintain a active Basic Life Skills certification.
• Must have a proficiency level typically attained with five years experience in infection prevention or diseases surveillance experience in a public health setting.
• Must possess demonstrated flexibility in responding to the needs of multiple constituencies with a service-oriented philosophy.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate multi-disciplinary teams.
• Must possess demonstrated skill in problem analysis, project management, conflict resolution and oral and written presentations.
• Requires ability to balance and manage multiple projects.