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Infection Surveillance Officer

Mount Sinai Beth Israel

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Roles & Responsibilities: Surveillance:

• Knows CDC Guidelines and National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) associated infection tracking system.

• Investigate and document possible infectious outbreaks and work with the administration and the departments involved to correct the problem.

• Conducts daily surveillance of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) according to NHSN definitions and reports results to IP team and leadership

• Conducts regular surveillance of Surgical Site Infections according to NHSN definitions.

• Prepares NSHN reporting of mandatorily reportable procedures (HPRO, HYST, COLO, FUSN, and others) and all gender affirmation surgeries (GAS)

• Conducts and monitors surveillance of infections assigned by hospital epidemiologist or hospital leadership.

Compliance:

• Ensures that infection control guidelines for all departments are current and appropriate.

• Ensures that JCAHO mandated Infection Control manual is complete and current.

Education:

• Conducts ongoing infection control in-service education programs for all departments.

• Prepares and delivers specific infection control lectures as needed.

• Prepares Infection Control educational materials as needed.

Reporting:

• Participates in Infection Control Committee meetings by presenting data collected and throughout surveillance periods.

• Documents and shares with the IP team if any infection is considered hospital-acquired

• Documents exclusions from definitions in case infections are not hospital-acquired.

Collaboration:

• Serves as liaison to Facilities regarding interim life infection control safety issues pertaining to construction.

• Serves as liaison to Supply Chain Transformation Initiative regarding safety devices and all Nursing Products that are infection control related.

• Assists in the follow-up of exposures to blood-borne pathogens.

• Serves as a member of the hospital’s Emergency Management Team.

Care

• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychological, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the age of the patients served in the assigned area

Requirements: Education:

• Master in Microbiology, Nursing, or Public Health. BA/BS can be considered with appropriate experience.

• Working knowledge of Infectious Diseases spread and Microbiology is required.

License:

• For nursing - New York State License in Nursing with current registration preferred

Certification:

• Infection Control Practices and Barrier Precautions certification

• A Certificate in Infection Control (CIC) is preferred. Proof of registration toward the certificate can be considered.

Skills:

• Good investigative skills. Ability to write, educate and work independently. Excellent written and oral communication skills

Reports to:

Hospital Epidemiologist

General Skills and Competencies

1. Communication - Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

2. Decision Making - Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

3. Building a Successful Team - Using appropriate methods and a flexible interpersonal style to help build a cohesive team; facilitating the completion of team goals.

4. Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.

5. Building Trust - Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization.

6. Aligning Performance for Success - Focusing and guiding others in accomplishing work objectives.

7. Customer Focus - Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.

8. Driving for Results - Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.

9. Coaching and Developing Others - Providing feedback, instruction, and development guidance to help others excel in their current or future job responsibilities; planning and supporting the development of individual skills and abilities.

10. Building Partnerships - Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.

11. Delegating Responsibility - Allocating decision-making authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate others to maximize the organization’s and individuals’ effectiveness.

12. Gaining Commitment - Using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved.

13. Stress Tolerance - Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization.

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3015711