PERM FULL TIME Description
SHIFT: No WeekendsSCHEDULE: Full-timeDirector of Infection Prevention
Full-time (FTE 1.0)
HCA Florida Capital Hospital
Tallahassee, FL
Facility Description:
HCA Florida Capital Hospital is a fully-accredited healthcare facility with more than 1,100 employees and 500 physicians. A 266-bed, acute-care hospital that offers 24/7 Emergency Services in Leon and Gadsden Counties including a Pediatric ER and an Express Care ER. We also offer a Bariatric Center, Behavioral Health Center, Cancer Center, Chest Pain Center w/PCI, Comprehensive Breast Center, Family Center, Heart & Vascular Center, Orthopedic/Spine Center, Physical Therapy Services, Stroke Center, Surgical Services, Wound Healing Center, Network-of-Care Affiliated Physician Practices, and more.
Benefits:
We are committed to providing our employees with the support they need. At HCA Healthcare, we offer an array of medical, dental, and vision packages as well as several add-on perks to make your benefits package truly customizable to you and your family needs. Some of our unique benefits we offer include:
- Student Loan Repayment*
- Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Programs*
- Paid Personal Leave
- 401k (100% annual match – 3% to 9% of pay based on years of service)
- Identity Theft Protection discounts
- Auto, Home, and Life Insurance options
- Adoption Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)*
*If applicable, please refer to the CBA or the local HR office to confirm if this benefit applies to your position.
Position Summary:
The Director of Infection Prevention is responsible for the facility-wide activities of evaluating and managing infection risks to patients and personnel through extensive surveillance and an effective reporting system. The Director functions as the hospital-wide clinical expert in the prevention and control of infection and is responsible for the facility-wide planning and implementation of the Infection Prevention Program, in order to minimize the probability of transmission of infection, thus providing a safer hospital for our patients and personnel.
Job duties include, but are not limited to:
- Responsible for the Infection Prevention Program for the organization.
- Demonstrates effective communication skills
- Develops, conducts annual reviews, and revisions to, policies and procedures governing control of infection and communicable diseases, as indicated.
- Conducts annual risk analysis based on geographic location, community, populations served, care, treatment and services provided, analysis of surveillance activities and other infection control data.
- Prioritizes goals and documents risks per the Infection Prevention Plan based on the annual risk analysis.
- Works collaboratively with IP Team and Department Leaders to develop, maintain, revise, and enforce infection prevention and control policies and procedures.
- Serves as liaison with regulatory, state, and county agencies as relates to communicable disease reporting.
- Responsible for organization-wide compliance with regulatory standards (CDC, TJC, OSHA, CMS, etc.).
- Acts as a subject matter expert for infection prevention and control for ICP Staff, nursing staff, students or other clinical or non-clinical colleagues.
- Oversees the submission of data to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) per State and CMS requirements to assure accuracy.
- Examines microbiology reports of positive isolates to recognize trends, identify hospital acquired infections, and performs / compiles appropriate statistical analysis.
- Oversees concurrent and retrospective chart audits as indicated to determine community onset versus hospital acquired conditions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in nursing, medical technology, clinical laboratory science, Public Health, Microbiology, or Epidemiology required; Master’s degree in Nursing (MSN) or Master’s in Public Health (MPH) preferred
- Certification in Infection Prevention and Control (CIC) required
- 3+ years Infection Control & Prevention experience in acute care; Experience in Critical Care and/or the OR preferred
- 3+ years of leadership experience required
- Knowledge of epidemiology, infectious disease management, microbiology, public health principles, and statistical analysis of clinical data