Infection Control Manager

Northwell Health•Carmel, NY

About The Position

Manages, plans, organizes, and evaluates tertiary hospital infection prevention and control activities and staff. Supports leadership in implementing initiatives to improve patient safety. The role leads the Infection Prevention team, develops and implements hospital infection prevention goals and policies, manages surveillance and risk assessments, and coordinates investigations and risk-reduction efforts. It also provides staff education, collaborates across disciplines to promote compliance, and ensures regulatory readiness and accurate records.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Medical Technology, Public Health, Nursing, or a related field.
6–8 years of relevant experience.
2–5 years of leadership or management experience.
Current certification by the Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC) within two years of entry into the position.

Nice To Haves

Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.

Responsibilities

Provides leadership to Infection Prevention team members and supervisors, communicating and guiding them toward department objectives.
Develops, communicates, and builds consensus for goals aligned with the health system.
Ensures implementation and evaluation of the hospital's infection prevention goals, objectives, plans, policies, and procedures.
Selects, develops, manages, and evaluates staff; prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize operational service.
Manages hospital infection surveillance and risk assessment activities in accordance with internal and external guidelines, ensuring identification and resolution of infection risks to patients, staff, and the community.
Facilitates investigations of epidemiologically important infections, clusters, and exposures to identify sources.
Reports findings to leadership and expedites interventions and risk-reduction strategies; ensures hospital stakeholders are informed of activity.
Provides infection prevention orientation and regular in-services to hospital staff on standards of care, infection risks, evidence-based practices, sterilization, disinfection, hand hygiene, and instrument and equipment storage.
Partners with multidisciplinary hospital team members to optimize patient care and maintain or increase compliance with infection prevention and control practices.
Promotes proactive identification and elimination of infectious risks throughout the hospital.
Ensures compliance with government and agency regulations; prepares for and participates in external regulatory reviews to maintain accreditation; maintains the integrity of related conventional and computer-aided records and information.
Maintains and models the organization's values.
Demonstrates regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
Performs related duties as required.