Infection Prevention Manager

Job Details Lead a team. Influence practice. Advance patient safety across Christiana Care. Christiana Care is seeking an experienced Infection Prevention Manager to provide clinical and operational leadership for our system-wide Infection Prevention and Control Program. This is an opportunity for an accomplished infection prevention professional to move beyond surveillance and reporting to lead people, influence practice, and drive meaningful improvements in patient safety.

Partnering with physicians, clinical teams, operational leaders, and executives, you will help shape and implement strategies to reduce healthcare-associated infections and strengthen infection prevention practices across the continuum of care. If you’re ready to take your infection prevention career to the next level and help shape strategies that protect patients, caregivers, and communities, we’d like to hear from you.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of infection prevention professionals, creating a culture of accountability, engagement, and high performance.
• Direct infection surveillance, risk identification, prevention, and mitigation activities across the health system.
• Lead improvement initiatives focused on reducing healthcare-associated infections and advancing patient safety outcomes.
• Analyze infection trends and data to identify risks, recommend interventions, and evaluate results.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on infection prevention standards, NHSN reporting, regulatory requirements, and accreditation readiness.
• Partner with multidisciplinary teams on outbreak response, reprocessing, construction, risk assessments, product evaluation, and other infection prevention priorities.
• Develop and advance evidence-based policies, practices, and education that support regulatory compliance and organizational goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, public health, biology, or another health/science-related field required; master’s degree preferred.
• Certification in Infection Control (CIC) required.
• Five years of infection prevention and control experience required.
• Three or more years of leadership, management, or supervisory experience preferred.
• Knowledge of NHSN reporting, CMS and regulatory requirements, infection surveillance, data analysis, and performance improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, collaborate, make independent decisions, and influence physicians, clinical teams, and leaders across an organization.
• Epic and Bugsy experience preferred.

• Day-one medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement plans including 403(b) and defined contribution options
• Work/life support, including backup dependent care and wellness programs
• Generous paid time off and lifestyle benefits

About Christiana Care Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, Christiana Care is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, and innovating to make high-quality care more accessible and affordable. Christiana Care includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,430 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health.

It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute. Christiana Care is nationally recognized as a great place to work. Christiana Care is rated by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals and is continually ranked among the best in the U.S. in national quality and safety ratings. Christiana Care is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 300 residents and fellows.

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