Safety Quality Program Manager
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Infection Prevention Strategist
Sanford Health
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $35 - $57 per hour
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Collaborates with regional infection control teams to align and standardize work and maintain the research, development, and deployment of infection prevention and control strategies across the enterprise.
- Leads complex, system wide projects to optimize processes.
- Serves as point of contact, subject matter expert, and central source of communication regarding infection control.
- Leads enterprise initiatives focused on the prevention of healthcare associated infections.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and engage leadership and staff at the regional markets to encourage participation in relevant infection prevention initiatives.
- Works closely with leadership to establish best practices based on industry standards and published guidelines.
- Orchestrate and influence the work of others to enhance Sanford's mission and vision and to achieve evidence-based clinical practices that focus on the infection prevention and control throughout the Sanford enterprise.
- Creates a vision for enterprise Infection Prevention and Control that is consistent with the ongoing needs and growth of the integrated health system.
- Identify opportunities to improve outcomes and communicate findings to appropriate leadership.
- Inform leaders within each market to develop strategies to reach top performance.
- Accountable to develop programmatic planning and project management to achieve the strategic goals of Sanford pertaining to Infection Prevention and Control.
- Knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to infection prevention and control.
- Extensive knowledge of epidemiology, microbiology, infectious disease, and principles of asepsis, disinfection, and sterilization.
- Ability to apply principles of epidemiology to conduct infection surveillance so as to identify, analyze, recommend, and evaluate quality improvement measures to ensure successful programs.
- Able to apply knowledge of acute care practices relevant to infection prevention and control and epidemiology to small rural acute care settings, non-traditional health care settings, such as long-term care, home health, hospice, correctional facilities, clinics, outpatient settings, and ambulatory surgery centers.
- Possesses the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures that are necessary for a comprehensive Infection Prevention and Control program.
- Willing to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing practices.
- Ability to work with growth and development needs of unique client population.
- Possesses the ability to deal effectively with personnel, patents, family members, visitors, clients, regulatory agencies/personnel and the public.
- Possesses leadership ability and maintain the willingness to work harmoniously with professional and non-professional personnel.
- Requires a self-motivated individual who values patient and staff safety as the top organizational priority.
- Knowledge and/or an interest in safe systems and High Reliability Organizations necessary.
- Must have a passion for patient and staff safety.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field is required.
Requirements
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