Infection Prevention and Control Specialist – Medicare Private Hospital View All Careers
Description
An opportunity exists for an Infection Prevention and Control Specialist, reporting to the Nursing Services Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, managing, mitigating and evaluating infection prevention risks to patients, employees, and the community and business stakeholders
Critical Outputs
• Execute the hospital infection prevention strategy.
• Implement an infection prevention plan aligned to the business objectives of the business unit.
• Lead the Infection Prevention Committee and direct reporting, investigation, root cause analysis, trending and actions of all infection related incidents or risks.
• Comply with legal and company requirements through internal audits (laundry, sterilization and storage department, catering, healthcare risk waste, internal infection and prevention control audit), and the hazardous biological agent risk assessment.
• Participate in and manage the close out of findings of the Department of Health inspection.
• Participate in and manage the close out of findings of the external and internal quality reviews.
• Patient and environmental risks identified and mitigated.
• Communicate infection risks, trends and actions to the Management Committee, Unit Managers, Medical Advisory Committee, and Quality Review Committee.
• Identify, minimize and manage occupation exposure to hazardous biological agents.
• Ensure that the Hep B programme is offered to all healthcare workers.
• Monitor and evaluate the placement of high-risk employees to minimize occupational health risks.
• Technical and professional competence in infection prevention at business unit level.
• Provide subject matter knowledge and advice to the business unit.
• Facilitate standard and ad hoc training as required to align business unit to organizational training strategy.
• Manage internal and external outbreaks to minimize risk
• Patient, employee and environmental and risks identified and mitigated
Requirements
• Relevant Degree or Diploma in Nursing with registration with the SANC
• Post basic Infection Prevention qualification an added advantage.
• 2 years working experience in a similar role.
• Computer proficiency
Competencies
- Collaboration/ Relationship Building
- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Resilience
- Engaging diversity
- Influencing
- Customer responsiveness
- Organisational awareness
- Excellence and quality orientation
- Ethical behaviour
- Technical and professional knowledge
- Attention to detail
- Decision making
Departments
- Nursing