Infection Prevention Coordinator

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Coord Infection Prevention

Job Summary and Qualifications

To maintain a functioning coordinated process to reduce risks of endemic and epidemic nosocomial infections in patients of all ages and healthcare workers in accordance with infection control policies, and TJC Standards.

What you will do in this role:

• Coordinates the hospital wide infection control process.
• Performs concurrent/retrospective review and surveillance of all infection control and related employee health issues.
• Acts as committee assistant to Infection Control Committee. Provides surveillance data to the organization, including case findings and identification of nosocomial infections.
• Interfaces with the Department of Health to ensure continuity of care, appropriate follow-up, and control of reportable communicable disease.
• Implements strategies to reduce risk and/or prevent nosocomial infections in patients, employees, and visitors.
• Implements strategies to control outbreaks of nosocomial infections when such are identified.
• Prepares/coordinates the ongoing review and processing of infection control policies and procedures.
• Maintains, prepares and distributes Infection Control Manuals to all departments.
• Serves as consultant/resource person for Injury Coordinator/Employee Health Nurse.
• Maintains documentation of case findings and identified nosocomial infections.
• Coordinates the Performance Improvement functions/activities for Infection Control, and ensures ongoing monitoring and reporting to the Infection Control Committee.

What qualifications you will need:

• Bachelors Degree in health-related field (ie: Nursing, Public Health or Epidemiology) peferred
• Infection Control Certification (CIC) preferred
• 3 - 5 years clinical experience; 2 years Infection Control experience preferred
• Knowledge of CDC, TJC, MDCR, OSHA requirements for infection Control
• Current Texas licensure preferred. Strong clinical and microbiology skills. Computer skills/knowledge
• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake is a 530 bed hospital where sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area. We opened our doors in 1972 and now employ 2,000 staff members and 900 physicians in a wide range of specialties. Our specialists offer more talent and experience than any other hospital in the region. We are a Level II Trauma Center and the only exclusive heart hospital south of Houston. Our accredited center provides nationally-recognized care in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiovascular diseases. HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers a variety of other services, including Woman Services, Pediatric Care, Breast Diagnostic Center, ACR-accredited Imaging Center, Wound Care Treatment Center featuring Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, and much more. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Coord Infection Prevention opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.