Director of Infection Prevention

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ChristianaCare is seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Infection Prevention to manage and supervise our infection prevention strategies across all campuses. The successful candidate will be a dynamic leader responsible for directing all infection prevention activities, ensuring a safe environment for patients, visitors, and staff across our multi-campus system.

About ChristianaCare

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, and innovating to make high-quality care more accessible and affordable. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,430 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.

ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work. ChristianaCare is rated by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals and is continually ranked among the best in the U.S. in national quality and safety ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 300 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

The Director of Infection Prevention is responsible for the direction, supervision, and coordination of the activities of the Infection Prevention department. This includes oversight of the day-to-day operations for all components of the department and integration into the healthcare’s network, planning, budgeting, clinical review, and committee structure. Maintains a key leadership role in planning and initiation of new programs that support infection prevention and patient safety within the department and throughout the healthcare system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Directs activities within the ChristianaCare Infection Prevention department.

• Ensures all infection prevention and control activities at ChristianaCare sites meet local, state, and national infection prevention and safety requirements.

• Completes an annual risk assessment of the Infection Prevention surveillance program with final approval from the Infection Prevention Executive Steer Committee.

• Ensures all short- and long-range goals and objectives for the Infection Prevention Department/program are met.

• Aligns the general mission and philosophies of the department with the organization’s mission and goals.

• Ensures that policies and procedures meet regulations and recommended best practices.

• Supports and ensures the orientation and educational programs for the department meet the specifications for each job role.

• Analyzes and applies infection-related process and outcomes data to improve infection prevention practices within the organization and shares as appropriate.

• Approves the capital and operating budgets and ensures that expenditures for the department are justifiable and within the scope of the program.

• Ensures that new products and equipment that have been evaluated by infection prevention meet all safety and infection prevention standards. Supports new products system-wide that will improve patient outcomes and support a culture of safety.

• Directs hiring of new department personnel and oversees the process to determine individuals’ assignments within the department.

• Completes the employee performance review and other HR-related requirements for the Infection Prevention Manager and Infection Prevention data analyst.

• Supports the Manager and staff to achieve top staff performance, accountability, and ensure customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• BSN or BS required. Master’s degree in nursing, Epidemiology or related field preferred. Demonstrated experience in infection prevention and control.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in managing an Infection Prevention department.

Certifications:

• Certification in Infection Prevention required (CBIC).