UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Infection Preventionist 4

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USA$121.9k - $216.1kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in infection control.
Advanced knowledge of clinical and operational infection control issues, including policies, regulatory requirements, surveillance and investigation methodologies, data collection, epidemiology, microbiology, patient care, and related nursing issues.
In-depth knowledge of infection control data management, analysis, research, reporting, and documentation methods, with the ability to contribute to studies, investigations, reports, presentations, and developing new infection control protocols and policies.
Advanced organizational and project management skills, including leading a team, prioritizing tasks, and completing projects on schedule.
Advanced interpersonal skills to participate in developing informational materials, provide education, training, and resources, and develop working relationships with patients, families, employees, and outside personnel.
Advanced written and verbal communication skills to collaborate with internal and external personnel, clearly convey complex clinical information, and present infection control research findings, reports, and analyses.
Ability to collaborate with management and staff across departments and provide counsel and guidance on complex functionality, clinical quality, efficiency, and infection control program development issues.
Bachelor's degree in a health-related field, or an equivalent combination of experience and training.
Current Registered Nurse license or comparable license in a related health care field, such as CLS/MT(ASC), D.P.M., or M.D.
Current Certification in Infection Control (CIC).
Completion of an advanced hospital epidemiology course and meeting or exceeding all competencies of ICP III.
Competency in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint; ability to enter, manipulate, and extract database information; and basic descriptive statistics such as chi-square and frequency analysis.
Ability to pass a background check.
Ability to rotate and adhere to after-hours on-call coverage.

Responsibilities

Provide epidemiologic analysis based on surveillance results, risk assessments, communicable disease exposure follow-up, outbreak investigations, and other data.
Direct interventions at patient, location, and service levels where needs are identified and risk-reduction or practice change is likely to have long-term success.
Educate personnel, patients, and visitors about their roles in infection prevention.
Establish thresholds of infection rates for surgical procedures and device-related infections that indicate when department action is needed.
Ensure regulatory, accreditation, and legal compliance related to infection prevention issues.
Apply extensive infection control and prevention knowledge and advanced professional concepts to complex, large-scope projects.
Collaborate with leaders and colleagues to align infection prevention program goals with organizational strategic goals.
Seek and implement ideas to improve quality, efficiency, and effectiveness; analyze complex problems from a systems perspective using data and effective problem-solving strategies.
Collaborate across professional disciplines and administrative boundaries and communicate with the diverse UCSF community.
Lead projects with measurable outcomes and manage meetings by identifying key issues and expectations to use resources effectively.
Provide expertise in a supporting role, listen actively, respect opinions, work toward consensus, and offer constructive criticism.
Mentor infection prevention colleagues in professional development and competency advancement.
Ensure evidence-based practices, performance expectations, and methods for achieving infection prevention and control goals and results are in place and communicated.
Quantify costs and savings of infection prevention and control programs, practices, and products, and apply understanding of quality incentive reimbursement models.
Address population health concerns during annual risk assessments, considering contextual demographics and global implications.
Facilitate communication between facilities and collaborate to support safe transfer and care in other practice settings.
Advocate for incremental changes that meet patient, visitor, staff, and program needs.
Implement performance improvement strategies, recognizing when to lead or facilitate a team and when to participate as a team member.
Implement systems thinking and highly reliable systems to support patient safety and sustain those systems.
Use local and external data to guide decisions and goals and identify priority improvement opportunities.
Examine risks and vulnerabilities, prioritize and implement evidence-based prevention strategies that support patient and staff safety.
Conduct surveillance, identify infection risks, implement interventions, and mitigate risks using proactive and reactive approaches.
Apply surveillance principles, use complex data display tools, conduct cluster or epidemic investigations, interpret results using statistics, rates, and ratios, and apply appropriate benchmarks.
Assess educational needs of staff, patients, students, and visitors; set goals and objectives; and develop and deliver education sessions or materials.
Develop and participate in interdisciplinary, clinical-centered rounding programs.
Collaborate with sterile processing department teams to reduce contamination risks and ensure medical instruments and equipment are properly cleaned and reprocessed; ensure manufacturers' instructions are implemented; maintain knowledge of expert recommendations; and evaluate reprocessing technology advances.
Use established and novel strategies to detect and respond to outbreaks.
Monitor infection prevention and control impacts of current and emerging technologies.
Review journal articles independently and assess the strengths and weaknesses of research designs.
Draw conclusions from research, detect bias, distinguish facts from opinion, and discern authors' purpose and tone.
Evaluate evidence for validity and implement changes based on that evidence.
Design technological workflows to make surveillance more efficient and effective.
Recognize when data exceed established thresholds that may indicate patterns or unusual clusters of epidemiologically important organisms.
Identify and leverage team expertise and skill sets, prioritize issues, and identify efficient ways to use technology.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

At least 5 years of infection control experience, preferably in an academic medical center.
Master's degree in a health-related field.

The Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention provides epidemiologic analysis based on the results of surveillance, risk assessment, communicable disease exposure follow-up, outbreak investigation, and other data; direct interventions at the patient, location, and service levels where needs are identified and where risk-reduction or change in practice is likely to have long-term success; education to personnel, patients and visitors with an emphasis on their role in infection prevention; thresholds of infection rates for surgical procedures and device-related infections above which department action is indicated; ensures regulatory, accreditation and legal compliance related to infection prevention issues

Applies extensive knowledge of infection control and prevention practices and advanced professional concepts to substantial projects of large scope and high degrees of complexity

Required qualifications:

Has at least 5 years of experience in infection control.
Advanced knowledge of the clinical and operational issues in infection control, including policies, regulatory requirements, surveillance and investigation methodologies, data collection, epidemiology, microbiology, patient care, and related nursing issues.
In-depth knowledge of data management, analysis, research, reporting, and documentation methods used in infection control, with the ability to contribute to studies, investigations, reports, presentations, and the development of new infection control protocols and policies.
Advanced organizational and project management skills, and ability to lead a team, prioritize tasks, and see projects through from inception to completion on schedule.
Advanced interpersonal skills, with the ability to participate in the development of informational materials, to provide education, training, and resources, and to develop positive working relationships with patients, families, employees, and outside personnel.
Advanced skills in written and verbal communications, with the ability to collaborate productively in a team environment with all levels of internal and external personnel, to convey complex clinical information in a clear, concise manner, and to make cogent presentations of research findings, reports, and analyses related to infection control.
Strong ability to collaborate effectively with management and staff across departments and to provide counsel and guidance on highly-complex issues of functionality, clinical quality, efficiency, and program development in all aspects of infection control.

Preferred qualifications:

Has at least 5 years of experience in infection control, preferably in an academic medical center.
Master's degree in a health-related field.

Education/Licensure/Certification:

Bachelor's degree in a health-related field and/or equivalent combination of experience/training.
Current Registered Nurse license (RN) or comparable license in a related health care field (such as CLS/MT(ASC), D.P.M., M.D.)
Current Certification in Infection Control (CIC)

Key Responsibilities

% of time	Essential Function (Yes/No)	Key Responsibilities (To be completed by Supervisor)
20	Y	Leadership: collaborates with other leaders and colleagues to align IP program goals with the strategic goals of the organization Actively seeks and implements ideas to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness Analyzes complex problems from a systems perspective, using available data, and applies reliable and effective problem solving strategies. Engages and collaborates across professional disciplines and administrative boundaries with respect and professionalism Draws on multiple and varied strategies to communicate fully with the diverse UCSF community Effectively leads projects with measureable outcomes Manages meetings through identifying key issues and expectations to capitalize on resources Demonstrates situational awareness, emotional intelligence and strategic vision. Provides expertise in a supporting role, listens actively, respects others’ opinions, demonstrating commitment, displaying loyalty, and works to achieve consensus, challenges leaders and offers constructive criticism. Mentors IP colleagues in professional development and competency advancement
20	Y	Professional Stewardship Accountability: ensures that measures are in place for performing evidence-based practices, emphasizing performance expectations, and communicating expectations and methods for achieving health care system IPC goals and results Ethics: demonstrates the highest standards of personal and professional conduct, accountability, behavior, decision making, and compliance with laws, regulations, and standards of best practice related to infection prevention and control including consistent adherence to the ethical principles outlined in the APIC professional and practice standards.. Financial acumen: quantifies costs and savings of IPC programs, practices, and products, and demonstrates understanding of quality incentive reimbursement models. Population health: addresses population health concerns during the annual risk assessment process, taking into account contextual demographics and global implications. Continuum of care: facilitates communication between facilities and collaborates for the safe transfer and provision of care within other practice settings. Advocates for realistic, incremental changes that meet the needs of patients, visitors, staff, and the IPC program.
20	Y	Quality Improvement: implements stable processes, reduce variation, and improve outcomes to establish a culture of safe and quality care Subject Matter Expert (SME): demonstrates evidence-based IPC knowledge, technique, and expertise and skills to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of colleagues and experts Performance Improvement: implements PI strategies; recognizes when to lead or facilitate a team and when to be a team member. Patient Safety: demonstrates systems thinking, implements highly reliable systems, and sustains those systems. Data utilization: uses local and external data to support decision making and goal setting, and to determine priority improvement opportunities Risk assessment and reduction: examines risk factors and vulnerabilities, prioritizes and implements evidence-based prevention strategies that contribute to patient and staff safety
20	Y	Operations: uses proactive and reactive approaches to conduct surveillance, identify infection risks, implement infection interventions, and mitigate risks Epidemiology and surveillance: applies surveillance principles; appropriately uses complex data display tools; conducts basic cluster or epidemic investigations; interprets results using statistics, rates, and ratios; uses appropriate benchmarks Education: assesses the IPC educational needs of staff, patients, students, and visitors; identifies the right goals and objectives; develops and delivers engaging education sessions and/ or materials IP rounding: develops and participates in interdisciplinary, clinical-centered rounding program Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization: demonstrates knowledge of disinfection and sterilization practices used in all settings; collaborates with SPD teams to minimize contamination risks and ensure that medical instruments and equipment are properly cleaned and reprocessed; ensures implementation of manufacturers’ instructions; maintains knowledge of expert organizations’ sterilization and disinfection recommendations; critically evaluates reprocessingtechnological advancements Outbreak detection and management: uses established and novel strategies to recognize and respond to outbreaks. Emerging technologies: monitors the possible IPC impacts of a broad range of current and emerging technologies
10	Y	Research Independently reviews journal articles and identifies strengths and weaknesses of research design. Draws conclusions from the research, detects bias, separates facts from opinion, and discerns the author’s purpose and tone. Evaluates evidence to determine its validity and implements change based on that evidence.
5	Y	Infection Prevention and Control Informatics Designs novel technological workflows to make surveillance more efficient and effective. Recognizes when data have exceeded established thresholds, potentially signifying a pattern or unusual cluster of epidemiologically important organisms. Identifies and leverages specific expertise and skill sets on teams, prioritizes issues, and identifies efficient ways to use the technology
5	Y	Other duties as assigned
100%		(To update total %, enter the amount of time in whole numbers (without the % symbol - e.g., 15, 20) then highlight the total sum (e.g., 1%) at the bottom of the column and press F9. The total sum should add up to 100%.)

Special Conditions of Employment:

Rotates and adheres to after-hours on-call coverage.
Minimum 5 years recent infection control experience, preferably in an academic medical center.
Completion of advanced hospital epidemiology course, meets or exceeds all competencies of ICP III.
Competency in Microsoft Word (create, format, save, edit using track changes, and print a document), Microsoft Outlook (create and send email, attach files, manage and organize messages and calendar), Excel (create a simple spreadsheet), PowerPoint (create, edit and present PowerPoint slideshows,), enter, manipulate and extract database information, and basic descriptive statistics e.g., Chi square, frequency analysis
Ability to pass a background check.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Budgeted Job Salary Range: $121,900-$216,108

About the Company

UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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Founded: 1864

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