Infection Preventionist - Quality Assurance - Sharp Tri City Medical Center - Day Shift - Full Time

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The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position.  The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices. 

What You Will Do
The Infection Preventionist is responsible for the coordination, surveillance and management of the hospital-wide Infection Prevention Program including education, trend analysis, and infection prevention. The Infection Preventionist is responsible to the Director of Regulatory Compliance through the CNE.

Required Qualifications

• 2 Years experience in Infection Prevention.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in nursing or related health care discipline.

Other Qualification Requirements

• CIC (Certification in Infection Prevention and Control), required or obtained within 6 months of hire or transfer.

Essential Functions

• The position characteristics reflect the most important duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job in a fully competent manner. They should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. The characteristics of the position and standards of performance may be changed by TCMC with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.
  Maintains a safe, clean working environment, including unit based safety and infection control requirements.
  Infection Prevention surveillance, education, monitoring trends that have been identified through surveillance, and maintain all regulatory functions.
  Responsible for the coordination and management of a hospital-wide Infection Prevention Program. 
  Ensures that Leadership has current information on JCAHO Standards and Federal, State, and County requirements pertaining to infection control. 
  Responsible for Prevention surveillance and the organization and coordination of the Infection Prevention Committee agenda, tracking table and minutes.
  Responsible for coordinating and updating Infection Prevention Manual as well as reviewing and updating Interdisciplinary and Administrative policies and procedures.
  Functions as a consultant to all hospital staff on infection prevention issues and liaisons between the Infection Prevention Committee and other hospital departments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the principles and practice of hospital infection prevention and control/epidemiology, infectious diseases, required.
• Ability to effectively investigate and work up problems using epidemiological principles, required.
• Knowledge of infection control standards (JCAHO, Title 22, CDC, APIC Guidelines) that affect the content of policies and procedures for the District, required.
• Able to develop and present educational programs to specific target groups with varying levels of education and training, required.
• Knowledge of computer technology and ability to collect and present data in various formats, required.
• Knowledge and skill to independently and collaboratively plan, develop, implement and evaluate infection control policies and procedures, required.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class