Mgr Infection Prevention and Caregiver Health and Safety - 135722

Mgr Infection Prevention and Caregiver Health and Safety

Peace Health is seeking a Manager of Infection Prevention and Caregiver Health and Safety for a Full Time, 1.00 FTE, Day position. The salary range for this job opening at Peace Health is $61.56 – $92.34. The hiring rate is dependent upon several factors, including but not limited to education, training, work experience, terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement, seniority, etc.

Job Summary

The Manager of Infection Prevention and Caregiver Health & Safety oversees organizational programs that protect both patients and caregivers from harm by ensuring the effective implementation of infection prevention, caregiver safety, and occupational health practices. This role leads teams supporting infection prevention, exposure management, workplace violence prevention, safe patient handling, caregiver injury prevention, and workforce safety programs. The manager is responsible for overseeing escalation to operational leaders when unsafe practices are placing caregivers or patients in immediate risk.

The manager ensures alignment with system strategy, regulatory requirements, and community needs while fostering a strong culture of safety.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership for Infection Prevention and Caregiver Health staff including hiring, training, mentoring, and performance management
• Clearly delineates responsibilities and decision-making authority among Infection Preventionists, Caregiver Health RNs, and Clinical Coordinators to ensure efficient operations, clear escalation pathways, and regulatory compliance.
• Ensures system and community department goals are achieved, and service excellence is demonstrated across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Oversees the infection prevention program including surveillance, outbreak response, isolation practice compliance, and ICRA processes.
• Manages caregiver safety programs including workplace violence prevention, safe patient handling, ergonomic injury prevention, and hazard assessment in coordination with the caregiver safety facilitator.
• Ensures full readiness for regulatory and accreditation surveys related to infection control, workplace violence prevention, and other occupational safety.
• Implements standardized improvement methodologies including Lean, human factors principles, and safety science.
• Monitors performance metrics and oversees infection and caregiver safety data integrity, analysis, and reporting.
• Collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to develop and implement risk reduction and safety improvement plans.
• Collaborates with patient safety & quality teams to promote a culture of safety and accountability.
• Participates in budget planning, resource allocation, and cost-saving initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree
  
  Required:
  
  Occupational Health and Safety or
• Bachelor's Degree
  
  Required:
  
  Bachelor's in Public Health (Science or Arts) or
• Bachelor's Degree
  
  Required:
  
  Epidemiology or
• Bachelor's Degree
  
  Required:
  
  Nursing or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience in the field of infectious disease and prevention and
• Master's Degree Preferred:
  Nursing or
• Master's Degree Preferred:
  Master of Public Health or

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years
  
  Required:
  
  5 yrs public health, sterile processing, microbiology, lab, nursing, infection prevention, professional or skilled technical healthcare, or occupational health and
• Minimum of 2 years
  
  Required:
  
  leadership experience or demonstrated progression of responsibility

Credentials

• Required:
  
  within 1 Year Certified in Infection Control and
• Required:
  
  within 1 Year Dir Infection Prevention & CG Health Certifications

Skills

• Proficiency with computer and MS Office Suite and clinical applications (Required)
• Demonstrated leadership and facilitation (Required)
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences. (Required)
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills (Required)

Working Conditions

Lifting

• Consistently operates computer and other office equipment.
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Sedentary work.

Environmental Conditions

• Predominantly operates in an office environment.

Mental/Visual

• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

Peace Health is committed to the overall wellbeing of our caregivers: physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual. We offer caregivers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package. Some of the many benefits included in this package are full medical/dental/vision coverage; 403b retirement plan employer base and matching contributions; paid time off; employer-paid life and disability insurance with additional buyup coverage options;

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