Elite New York City animal hospital seeks an Infection Preventionist/ Infection Control Specialist to implement an effective infection prevention program at the hospital level.

• Responsibilities:
• Implement an effective infection prevention program at the hospital level.
• Educate healthcare providers, consulting with leadership and hospital staff, and implementing and communicating evidence-based infection prevention practices. Engage in follow up consultations with hospital and clinical staff and patients on infection prevention and control.
• Assess and address learning within the hospital, and design and deliver program-wide infection prevention and control educational programs and materials for general orientation and clinical departments.
• Utilize infection control and epidemiological principles to conduct surveillance by identifying infection control problems, disease outbreaks, exposure, epidemics, and pandemics and escalating findings to leaders.
• Participate in performance improvement initiatives by analyzing and evaluating infection prevention and control programs to identify areas of improvement.
• Proactively monitor and analyze infection cases in relation to an annual infection prevention and control program plan and developing and implementing organizational infection prevention and control program.

Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in infection prevention, clinical quality management, or a directly related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health, Epidemiology, Microbiology, or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.

Salary: $120,000 - $135,000

This is a hybrid position: 3 days onsite and 2 days remote

Please email resume to:
Joshua Albucker
Senior Vice President
NOOR Staffing Group
646-492-5653
jalbucker@noorstaffing.com