Infection Control Officer
Skills
About This Role
Overview
- Overall:
- Assists in the review and implementation of the facility's Infection Prevention and Control Annual Workplan.
- Works closely with the Infection Control Manager to plan, prioritise and deliver an effective and efficient infection control service.
- Works under areas of responsibility and to Infection Control Nurse Core Competencies.
- Develops and delivers an annual delivery plan for area of responsibility in relation to the overall annual planned programme.
- Acts as a role model and mentor, providing effective leadership, advice, and support.
- Assists in the development and revision of ICP policies procedures and guidelines.
- Chairs the Infection Control Champion meetings and supports the required activities.
- Assists in IPC risk assessment.
- Makes decisions and follows through in relation to infection control issues in the absence of the Infection Control Manager.
Surveillance
- Collects data for all IPC-identified KPIs and reports findings to the Infection Control Manager.
- Reports all notifiable and communicable diseases as mandated by the regulatory bodies.
- Performs surveillance and audits collates and records relevant data and information and presents progress reports on an ongoing basis.
- Participates in quality improvement activities and projects.
- Participates in the Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) during any renovation, construction, and demolition activities.
- Assists with product evaluation as appropriate.
Clinical
- Participates in the staff immunization and post-exposure program including provision of immunization, counselling, and data management.
- Liaises with the Employee Health Nurse regarding relevant staff member health issues.
- Identifies as promptly as possible potential infection hazards in patients, staff, equipment, and the environment, including outbreak management.
- Determines the infection control care required for individual patients and groups of patients with communicable diseases and alert organisms.
- Provides professional advice on the specialist area of infection prevention and control in conjunction with national and local recommendations, policies, and guidelines.
- Provides specialist infection control advice, support, and information to healthcare workers, patients, and visitors in order that the spread of infection is minimised.
- Informs and liaises with healthcare providers when infected patients are discharged from other hospitals.
- Provides advice on patient placement of patients with suspected/confirmed alert organisms and conditions, or patients highly susceptible to infection.
- Reports on and evaluates the efficacy of intervention to inform future practice.
- Carries out the root cause analysis of infection utilising both clinical and nursing notes to establish any areas of improvement when necessary.
- Follows up daily microbiology results.
- Assists and educates patients and families on hygiene and best infection control standards where appropriate.
- Demonstrates expertise in Standard and Transmission Based Precautions.
Education
- Assist in the implementation of the ICP education programs.
- Provides mentorship, preceptorship, teaching, facilitation and professional supervisory skills for physicians, nurses, allied health staff, and other hospital employees.
- Maintains training records of employees.
- Organizes and delivers evidence-based training to all grades and disciplines of staff, formally and informally as appropriate deliver IPC education programmes within the area of responsibility.
- Assists in the development of education programmes under the supervision of the Infection Control Manager.
Non-Clinical
- Carries out risk assessment related to building works within the Hospital and Satellite Clinics.
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