Disease Prevention Specialist

1 week ago


Waterloo, Ontario, Canada St Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Full time

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton is a leading healthcare provider in the community, and we are seeking a highly skilled Infection Control Professional to join our team.

Estimated Salary: $60,000 - $80,000 per year

About the Job

This is a temporary assignment until approximately March 2025, with the possibility of extension.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Infection Prevention and Control Program at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, participating in the mission, vision, and goals of the program by maintaining records of all significant infections, interpreting diagnostic tests and data to identify risks and trends, educating staff, patients, families, physicians, and other associates in Infection Prevention and Control Practices, identifying, monitoring, and analyzing outbreaks, preparing reports on possible causes and interventions, preparing and interpreting outcome indicator data for all programs and departments, and supporting all Infection Prevention and Control activities as required.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Supports the Infection Prevention and Control Program for St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton at all sites by following national guidelines/best practices for the surveillance of nosocomial infections.
  • Reviews patient records to ascertain clinical signs and symptoms for infection, clinical interventions, and requirements for transmission-based precautions, completes patient-specific information, reviews and interprets significant clinical laboratory reports on a daily basis for ongoing surveillance/trends, interviews hospital patients or out-patients as necessary to complete the patient-specific data, gathers and calculates infection control statistics such as averages, percentages, and rates in support of the infection prevention and control program.
  • Investigates all infection clusters and outbreaks with interventions directed at infection prevention, consults for infection risk assessment, prevention, and control strategies to departments, participates or consults in the development and maintenance of Infection Prevention and Control protocols/standards/policy and procedures, provides after-hours and weekend on-call services as required and occasional weekend on-site coverage, assists in research projects with bibliographic searches, statistical computations, drafting of reports/papers, and publications.
  • SUPPORTS PROGRAM ACTIVITIES AS REQUESTED BY THE INFECTION CONTROL OFFICER/MANAGER, WHICH MAY INCLUDE RESPONDING TO INQUIRIES FROM HOSPITAL STAFF, PATIENTS, VISITORS, ASSOCIATES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS, ACTING AS A RESOURCE/CONSULTANT FOR INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL ISSUES, PARTICIPATING IN THE PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT THE GOALS OF THE DEPARTMENT, IMPLEMENTING CHANGES MANDATED BY REGULATORY AND LICENSING AGENCIES, CONSULTING ON PRODUCT EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL IMPLICATIONS.

Qualifications:

  • Completion of a recognized basic training course in Infection Control.
  • Two years experience in Infection Prevention and Control.
  • Certificates in Infection Control (CIC) by the Certification Board of Infection Control.
  • Regulated Health Care Professional with current registration in the Province of Ontario with their professional body.
  • Baccalaureate preferred.
  • Knowledge of acute, mental health, and ambulatory care programs an asset.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the complexities of the delivery of patient care.
  • Ability to communicate successfully with staff, families, and community partners.
  • Computer proficiencies: MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint, familiarity with statistical software preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience in adult education techniques.
  • Effective research skills including ability to construct effective studies involving statistical measures an asset.
  • Self-motivated and flexible.


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