Director Infection Prevention- Tallahassee, FL

PERM FULL TIME Description

Director 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