Infection Prevention Specialist

5 days ago

Nashville, Tennessee, United States Vanderbilt University Medical Center Full time
Job Summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a highly skilled Infection Prevention Specialist to join our team. As an Infection Prevention Specialist, you will be responsible for identifying, investigating, monitoring, and reporting healthcare-associated infections. You will collaborate with teams and individuals to create infection prevention strategies, provide feedback, and sustain infection prevention strategies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist in planning, developing, implementing, managing, and evaluating infection prevention surveillance and epidemiologic investigation activities through a collaborative role with the department leadership as evidenced by the Infection Control Plan.
  • Identify infectious diseases and develop a liaison role in public health disease reporting and emergency preparedness/emerging disease notification.
  • Prevent and control the transmission of infectious agents through evidence-based infection prevention policies and procedures through collaboration with internal and external groups.
  • Develop management and communication strategies to facilitate planning, communication, and feedback, and quality/performance improvement and safety activities.
  • Design and deliver training and educational offerings relative to infection prevention for staff/faculty, students, volunteers, patients, and families.
  • Collaborate regarding counseling, follow-up, and work restriction recommendations related to communicable diseases/exposures in patients, employees, and communities.
  • Recognize and monitor elements important for a safe care environment, including heating, ventilation, humidity, water standards, and construction issues that impact patient care settings.
  • Identify and evaluate appropriate cleaning, sterilization, and disinfection practices and quality control measures.
Technical Capabilities
  • Infection Prevention Research (Intermediate): Incorporate research constructs into the IP program in order to synthesize, apply, and evaluate research while applying evidence-based IP principles in challenging and complex situations.
  • Professional Stewardship (Intermediate): Demonstrate accountability through communication, education, relationship building, and behavior change.
  • Infection Prevention (Intermediate): Demonstrate infection prevention skills in practical applications. Train and educate by setting the example and giving technical instruction.
  • Infection Prevention Informatics (Intermediate): Have a working knowledge of surveillance technology and leverage data inputs to help identify healthcare-associated infections and other reportable infections as well as managing automated reporting.
  • Continuous Process Improvement (Intermediate): Identify, analyze, and improve upon existing business processes for optimization and to meet standards of quality. Coach senior and executive leadership in defining metrics and goals.
  • Leadership (Intermediate): Formulate a vision while motivating and guiding employees promoting engagement.
Core Accountabilities
  • Organizational Impact: Execute job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
  • Problem Solving/Complexity of Work: Analyze moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
  • Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
  • Team Interaction: Provide informal guidance and support to team members.
Core Capabilities
  • Supporting Colleagues: Develop Self and Others: Invest time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
  • Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintain regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen.
  • Communicates Effectively: Recognize group interactions and modify one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
  • Delivering Excellent Services: Serves Others with Compassion: Seek to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customize services to better address them.
  • Solves Complex Problems: Approach problems from different angles; identify new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
  • Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provide ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
  • Ensuring High Quality: Performs Excellent Work: Engage regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly address quality issues promptly.
  • Ensures Continuous Improvement: Apply various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identify ways to resolve them.
  • Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understand all aspects of providing a safe environment and perform routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
  • Managing Resources Effectively: Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrate a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
  • Stewards Organizational Resources: Apply understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
  • Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrate strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
  • Fostering Innovation: Generates New Ideas: Proactively identify new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
  • Applies Technology: Demonstrate an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
  • Adapts to Change: View difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embrace change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

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