Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)

Role Summary

Core Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and review the IPC program, annual plan, priorities, and policies using infection control risk assessment.
• Ensure compliance with MOH, GDIPC, Weqaya, CBAHI, international standards, and USRC policies.
• Conduct surveillance, analyze data, identify trends, and recommend performance improvement initiatives.
• Maintain IPC evidence files, records, audit schedules, reports, corrective action plans, and closure evidence.
• Report IPC indicators, significant risks, communicable diseases, and notifiable events through approved channels.
• Conduct audits, environmental rounds, risk assessments, outbreak investigations, and exposure incident reviews.
• Oversee hand hygiene, PPE, isolation, sharps safety, waste management, cleaning, disinfection, sterilization, injections, and dialysis station turnover.
• Oversee staff screening, immunization, occupational exposure management, and post-exposure activities.
• Provide IPC orientation, education, consultation, and technical guidance to staff, patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Collaborate with medical, nursing, laboratory, housekeeping, biomedical, dietary, HR, and operations teams.

Assignment and Reporting

• A full-time IPC Practitioner is assigned exclusively to IPC activities and is not part of routine nursing staffing.
• The role is not assigned routine patient care, dialysis shifts, staffing coverage, or other non-IPC duties when designated full-time.
• The Head Nurse provides administrative oversight for attendance, leave, scheduling, timesheets, and daily coordination.
• The Clinical Services Director provides functional oversight of surveillance, audits, reporting, training, guidance, and evaluation.
• The Medical Director provides clinical governance and escalation support.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with the specified nursing degree or diploma pathway for the applicable candidate category.
• Minimum two years of dialysis training and experience.
• Minimum one year of relevant IPC experience or an accepted IPC certification or training pathway.
• Current Registered Nurse licensure from a country of origin.
• Certification and registration with the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.
• BLS certification from Saudi authorities or the American Heart Association is required.
• ACLS certification is preferred.
• Hemodialysis training completion is advantageous.
• Passing a color vision or color blindness test is required.