Regional Infection Control Strategist

Majestic Care is looking for a Regional Infection Control Strategist to join our teams’ mission and believe in our core values!

Our mission: Through the hearts of our Care Team Members, we provide excellent healthcare to those we serve.

Our Core Values...

L - Listening

E - Empathy

A - Accountability

D - Decisiveness

This is how we create a culture to LEAD with Love.

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for the development, direction, implementation, management, and operation of the infection prevention in our long-term care communities. This person will work to identify, investigate, monitor, and report healthcare-associated infections and communicable diseases. The individual will collaborate with teams and individuals to create, educate, and sustain infection prevention strategies, as well as provide feedback.

Key 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.
  
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for hiring, training, development, and corrective action as needed to any and all infection control and prevention support roles across the enterprise.
• Provides oversight and management within the corporate team to lead third (3rd) party partnerships that supplement staffing needs across the entire infection control and prevention services department and enterprise.
• Direct oversight and co-management of infection control and prevention strategy and the operationalization of that strategy.
• Directly leads facility level positions that govern operations and infection control and prevention excellence.
• Preparation and ongoing management of fiscal budgets and parameters impacting infection control and prevention.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• 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.
  
  
  

Other Special Requirements:

• Manual dexterity required to operate modern office equipment.
• Valid driver’s license for travel as needed.
  
  
  

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