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Majestic Care · 1 day ago

Regional Infection Control Strategist

Cincinnati, OH

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

Majestic Care is seeking a Regional Infection Control Strategist to enhance their infection prevention strategies across long-term care communities. This role involves developing and implementing infection control programs, collaborating with teams to monitor healthcare-associated infections, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

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Responsibilities

You will possess advanced skills in leadership, leading others by inspiring them to perform at the top of their licensure

As a leader you will possess and demonstrate passive and active listening skills to fully understand others and incorporate the concerns voiced at the point-of-care into your solutions across the enterprise related to infection control and prevention

You are required to effectively communicate horizontally and vertically across the organization, effectively articulating, writing, and expressing your concerns and interests to those who report to you, those who work parallel, and the executives within the organization

This position requires dynamic management skills to oversee, lead, and directly report findings and improvement opportunities related to services of third (3rd) party vendor partnerships, such as protective gear suppliers, laboratory services, and operational partnerships that directly correlate with infection control and prevention

You will be proficient in escalating your concerns, observations, and recommendations to the correct roles across the enterprise and throughout interconnected partnerships that influence your ability to create excellence in the infection control and prevention element of the operation

As fundamental infection control monitoring and prevention services are secured, you will work interprofessionally and within your department to innovate infection control by making the department, staff, and service points excellent and leading standards across the post-acute-care (PAC) space

You will lead, mentor, and manage infection prevention community level roles within the infection prevention department to ensure they perform at the top of their license, support the roles to create excellence, empower the roles to be successful, and professionally grow these roles to serve at a higher capacity if an opportunity becomes available

Fosters a culture of service excellence which anticipates and responds to the needs of our residents

Ensures and protects the confidentiality of sensitive information

You possess a strong clinical understanding of the impact infection control and prevention has on the PAC population with the skills to integrate workflow strategies into various softwares with the intent to maintain a legacy of your work and extraction of meaningful KPI’s from the systems you utilize in your routine work across the enterprise

Collaborates within the department to develop goals and objectives; motivate and manage care team members to accomplish the same

Collaboratively develops, implements, and evaluates the organizational infection prevention program to include policies and procedures for surveillance, epidemic and pandemic preparedness, hand hygiene, standard precautions, employee and resident infection control education, employee health, outbreak management, and transmission-based precautions

Establish enterprise and facility level routine, ongoing, and systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of surveillance date to identify infections, infection risks, communicable disease outbreaks and to maintain or improve resident health status

Utilize nationally recognized surveillance criteria such as but not limited to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) or Revised McGeer criteria to track trends and identify opportunities for improvement based on data analysis

Works within the team to develop an annual surveillance plan for the enterprise and individual communities based on the population(s) served, services provided, and analysis of surveillance data

Evaluate and modify the surveillance plan and infection prevention policies and procedures no less than annually and as new science, evidence, and best-practices are discovered

Provide infection prevention education to the region through written communication, oral presentations, recorded content, and other effective educational mediums that enhance the learners comprehension and retention

Consults with a team of infection preventionists to provide individual and small groups infection prevention education through written communication, oral presentations, recorded content, and other effective educational mediums that enhance the learners comprehension and retention

Serves as subject matter expert and resource across the enterprise, for individuals at the point-of-care as well as residents/families, partners, providers, visitors, community, and public health regarding infection prevention and control measures, including identification of infectious disease processes

Comply with regulatory and mandatory reporting requirements at the local, state, and federal levels and ensuring individual communities adhere to the highest level of transparency and reporting

Maintain current knowledge with CMS, state and federal regulatory agencies and public health guidelines as it relates to infection prevention

Participate in interdisciplinary performance and quality improvement process

Participate in the development/review of occupational health policies and procedures related to infection prevention and control

Reviews the risk of blood borne pathogens, OSHA standards, and exposure control plan to ensure implementation of best practice for occupational health to decrease the likelihood of exposures to infectious diseases

Develop (or assist with) immunization and screening programs i.e., Influenza and TB

Performs other tasks as assigned and within scope of practice

Qualification

Infection prevention trainingData collectionAnalysisEpidemiology knowledgeEvidence-based guidelinesLeadership skillsCommunication skillsReport writingData presentationManual dexterityConflict resolutionCollaboration

Required

Degree in nursing

Have primary professional training in nursing, medical technology, microbiology, epidemiology, or another related field

Is qualified by education, training, experience, or certification

Has completed specialized training in infection prevention and pursues new certifications and other credentialing for yourself and your direct reports

Collaboration, leadership, and conflict resolution

Communication skills oral and written

Ability to implement evidence-based guidelines

Knowledge in and ability to conduct data collection and analysis, report writing, and data presentation