Director, Infection Prevention

Drives and guides implementation of annual infection prevention and control programs. Integrates finding and develops action plans to address infection control problems, disease outbreaks, exposure, epidemics, and pandemics. Identifies and defines strategies for infection prevention and control program improvement. Develops and presents infection prevention and control educational programs on new initiatives and regulatory affairs. Evaluates initiatives to protect and prevent injuries from occupational exposure to infectious disease(s).

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.
• Educates others on infection prevention and control by: developing and presenting educational sessions on new initiatives and regulatory affairs; ensuring all client and organizational needs are being consistently met and proactively monitoring alignment with KP and national (e.g., Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], National Healthcare Safety Network [NHSN]) standards; and providing leadership in the development and dissemination of best practices in infection prevention and control.
• Provides expertise in epidemiology by: participating in preparations and responses to emerging infection disease threats and/or exposures and leading response to emerging infection disease threats and/or exposures; and evaluating initiatives to protect and prevent injuries from occupational exposure to infectious disease(s).
• Utilizes epidemiological principles to conduct surveillance by: integrating findings from investigations and interviews and developing action plans to address infection control problems, disease outbreaks, exposure, epidemics, and pandemics; facilitating deployment of surveillance programs to monitor infection control problems, disease outbreaks, exposure, epidemics, and pandemics; and advising key agencies (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], Department of Health, Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA]) on resolution progress targeting infection control problems, disease outbreaks, exposure, epidemics, and pandemics.
• Participating in performance improvement initiatives by: providing clinical consultation to identify and define strategies for infection prevention and control program improvement; coordinating and managing projects and ensuring work groups are composed of individuals with appropriate skills and expertise; leading needs assessments to determine customer needs and ensuring needs are met; collaborating with leaders to address issues or blockers to performance improvement initiatives and managing implementation of recommendations; and providing consultative expertise and oversight for internal performance improvement committees and teams and external agencies.
• Engages in ongoing surveillance by: driving and guiding implementation of annual infection prevention and control program plan; identifying and defining infection prevention and control program goals and objectives with emphasis on proactive programming; defining and developing infection prevention and control policies and protocols and guiding adherence to KP and national (e.g., Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], National Healthcare Safety Network [NHSN]) standards; providing recommendations to alleviate problems in clinical space and practices related to infection prevention/control (e.g., patient waiting areas, respiratory etiquette station, cleaning procedures, sterilization); ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal regulatory and accreditation standards and mandatory reporting requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum two (2) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in infection prevention, clinical quality management, or a directly related field.
• Masters degree in Nursing, Public Health, Epidemiology, Microbiology, or related field AND eight (8) years of health care/professional experience INCLUDING minimum five (5) years of experience in patient management, occupational health, clinical rounds, laboratory, public health, or a directly related field OR Bachelors degree in Nursing, Public Health, Epidemiology, Microbiology, or related field AND minimum ten (10) years of health care/professional experience INCLUDING minimum seven (7) years of experience in patient management, occupational health, clinical rounds, laboratory, public health, or a directly related field OR Minimum thirteen (13) years of experience in patient management, occupational health, clinical rounds, laboratory, or a directly related field.

• Infection Control Certificate
  

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Information Gathering; Change Management; Business Documentation; Business Process Improvement; Critical Facility Operations Knowledge; Facilities Management/Operations; Operational Excellence; Preventative Maintenance; Risk Management; Issues and Crisis Management; Written Communication; Compliance Management; Confidentiality; Safety and Environmental Health Management; Health Care Compliance; Maintain Files and Records; Health Care Data Analytics; Health Care Outcome Data; Trend Analysis; Consulting; Quality Assurance Process; Hazard Mitigation; Emergency Preparedness; Patient Safety; Laboratory Procedures; Bloodborne Pathogen Knowledge