Infection Control Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Sinai Health Full time

Sinai Health is a leading academic health science centre with a provincial, national and international reputation for discovering and delivering life-changing care. Since 2015, we have provided excellent and compassionate care in hospital, community and home. Comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and our system partner Circle of Care, we translate scientific breakthroughs, push boundaries for health solutions, and educates future clinical and scientific leaders.

At Sinai Health, we care, create possibilities and offer hope. Sinai Health System is looking for an** Infection Control Practitioner to support our Infection Control department at Mount Sinai Hospital Hospital, with the expectation to cover Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital as needed.**

As a member of the Infection Prevention and Control team, the Infection Control Practitioner is part of a strong team of professionals who work with patient care and hospital support programs to supervise the development, implementation and evaluation of infection prevention and control practice for these programs. This includes surveillance activities, outbreak management, acting as a consultant internally and externally, providing education to all levels of health care providers, reviewing, selecting and distributing appropriate scientific literature, linking with external agencies and academic institutions across the continuum of care, supervising the implementation and evaluation of quality improvement projects, and participating in research activities. The role also includes providing infection prevention and control recommendations for design and construction projects and product evaluation, performing risk assessments for incidents involving infection risk, and supervising student rotations in infection prevention and control.

**Responsibilities Include**:

- Provides advanced infection prevention and control expertise, advice and support to patient care programs and hospital support departments
- Assures compliance with legislative and accreditation standards
- Works with patient care and hospital support programs to supervise the development and evaluation of infection prevention and control practice
- Provides expert consultation to all levels of hospital staff and programs related to individual and system questions and issues related to IPAC
- As needed, provides individual consultation for hospital staff, patients and families related to complex infection prevention questions
- Reviews new literature and best practice guidelines, assesses impact of recommendations on hospital programs and develops action plans for implementation across all departments in the hospital
- Evaluates and revises hospital policies and develops new hospital policies as needed Investigates patient complaints related to IPAC and works with departments to implement action plans in response
- Supports Occupational Health Wellness and Safety in communicable disease management and provides expert advice regarding vaccination programs
- Evaluates new products and equipment for their infection risks and works with users to develop solutions for implementation
- Develops and supervises the implementation of appropriate preventative measures to protect patients and staff during construction and renovation activities
- Reviews, selects and distributes appropriate new scientific literature to stakeholders
- Provides on-going risk assessment of existing and emerging infection prevention and control risks to the hospital
- Using specialized knowledge, conducts infection control risk assessments to guide risk analysis and develop solutions for existing and emerging issues
- Remains current with evolving infectious diseases threats and changing recommendations for management, and ensures that the hospital response is coordinated and appropriate
- Participates in research protocols that will improve the hospitals ability to protect patients and staff from infections
- Supervises the development, implementation and evaluation of surveillance and quality improvement programs to reduce the risk of patient and staff infection
- Implements and conducts patient surveillance activities by adapting established criteria, best practices and evidence based research to best meet hospital needs
- Leads quality improvement teams aimed at ensuring best practices in infection prevention are implemented and proactive strategies are followed to identify, prevent and control hospital-acquired infections
- Performs epidemiological analysis of outbreak and surveillance data
- Secures cooperation of multiple departments for the development of solutions to infection control problems and for adoption of improved preventive practice
- Creates strategies for, and supervises the implementation of programs to prevent and optimally manage outbreaks
- Leads the investigation of exposure incidents and clusters of infection Provides risk assessment for incide

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