Staff Development Coordinator/Infection Preventionist

Job Description

Job Description

STAFF DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR

Purpose

The primary purpose of your job position is to plan, organize, develop  and direct all in-service educational programs throughout the facility in accordance with current applicable federal, state and local standards, guidelines and regulations, and as may be directed by the administrator and DNS, to assure that the highest degree of quality resident care can be maintained at all times.

Administrative Duties

• Ensures that employees receive training and education necessary to perform their job responsibilities in accordance with the facility policies.

• Ensures that documentation for all training is completed in accordance with state, federal and Compliance requirements.

• Monitors employee performance and takes necessary action for compliance issues.

• Manages Employee Health program.

• Conducts or coordinates new employee job training and CPR training.

• Working with the Director of Nursing (DNS), ensures clinical competency of nursing staff through observed skills evaluation and conducts annual competency assessments for licensed nursing staff and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs).

• Ensures the educational curriculum in the center meets or exceeds state, federal and accreditation requirements.

• Plans and conducts state and federally required in-service programs.

• Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the standards set out in the Company’s policies and procedures, applicable federal and state laws and applicable professional standards.

Personnel Functions

• Assist the director in developing and implementing our employee health services program, to include individual counseling.

• Provide personnel with information concerning the facility’s policies governing hepatitis B vaccinations.

• Assist in establishing the TB Mantoux testing and recordkeeping protocols for all new employees.

• Orient new employees to the importance of infection control policies and procedures, personal hygiene, hand washing techniques, etc., as well as the employee’s responsibility in following our established procedures for tasks involving exposure to blood/body fluids.

• Meet with the staff to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services, as necessary.

• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with all department directors and personnel to ensure that infection control services and activities can be properly maintained to meet the needs of the residents.

• Maintain an excellent working relationship with the medical profession and other related facilities and organizations.

• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the facility.

• Knowledge of learning principles and training techniques.

• Skilled in developing and conducting training programs.

• Ability to communicate effectively with residents and their family members and at all levels of the organization.

• Knowledge of state and federal requirement for accreditation and certification.

• Possesses basic computer skills.

• Ability to work with a culturally diverse resident and employee population.

Staff Development

• Develop and participate in the planning, conducting and scheduling of timely in-service training classes and educational programs that provide instructions on “how to do the job” for all facility personnel.

• Develop, implement and maintain an effective orientation program that orients the new employee to our infection control and employee health program.

• Provide leadership training that includes the administrative and supervisory principles essential for Nurse Supervisors/Charge Nurses.

• Assist support services in developing, implementing and conducting in-service training programs relative to infection control.

• Develop annual OSHA and CDC in-service training programs for hazard communication, TB management and blood borne pathogens standard.

• Develop a training program for all personnel required to perform tasks involving exposure to blood/body fluids.

• Attend and participate in continuing educational programs designed to keep you abreast of changes in your profession, as well as to maintain your license on a current status.

Resident Rights

• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.

• Explain to the resident the necessity of isolation and/or universal precautions.

• Ensure that all nursing service personnel are knowledgeable of the residents’ rights, including the right to refuse treatment.

• Monitor nursing care to ensure that all residents are treated fairly and with kindness, dignity and respect while in isolation or on universal precautions.

• Ensure that all nursing care is provided in privacy and that nursing service personnel knock before entering the resident’s room.

• Maintain a written record of the resident’s complaints and/or grievances that indicates the action taken to resolve the complaint and the current status of the complaint.

• Report and investigate all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.

• Ensure that nursing staff personnel honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request.  Ensure that such requests are in accordance with the facility’s policies governing advance directives.

Working Conditions

• Works in office area(s) as well as throughout the facility.

• Moves intermittently during working hours.

• Is subject to frequent interruptions.

• Is involved with residents, personnel, visitors, government agencies/personnel, etc., under all conditions and circumstances.

• Is subject to hostile and emotionally upset residents, family members, personnel and visitors.

• Communicates with the medical staff, nursing personnel and other department supervisors.

• Works beyond normal working hours and in other positions temporarily, when necessary.

• Is subject to call-back during emergency conditions (e.g., severe weather, evacuation, post-disaster, etc.)

• Attends and participates in continuing educational programs.

• Is subject to injury from falls, burns from equipment, odors, etc., throughout the work day, as well as to reactions from dust, disinfectants and other air contaminants.

• Is subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions etc., including TB and the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.

• May be subject to the handling of and exposure to hazardous chemicals.

Education and Licensure

1.      Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or   university, or be a graduate of an approved LPN program.  Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an RN or LPN in the state.

Experience

1.      No On-the-job training provided.

Specific Requirements

1.      Must be able to read, write, speak and understand the English language.

2.      Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.

3.      Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel and the general public.

4.      Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations and guidelines that pertain to long term care.

5.      Must possess leadership and supervisory ability and the willingness to work harmoniously with and supervise other personnel.

6.      Must possess the ability to plan, organize, develop, implement and interpret the programs, goals objectives, policies and procedures, etc., that are necessary for providing quality care.

7.      Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.

8.      Must be willing to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing nursing practices.

9.      Must be able to relate information concerning a resident’s condition.

10.  Must not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of other individuals in the workplace.

Physical and Sensory Requirements

(With or Without the Aid of Mechanical Devices)

1.      Must be able to move intermittently throughout the work day.

2.      Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.

3.      Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.

4.      Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly emotionally upset and at times, hostile people within the facility.

5.      Must be able to push, pull, move and/or lift a minimum of 50 pounds to a minimum height of 3 feet and be able to push, pull, move and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 20 feet.

6.      May be necessary to assist in evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

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Risk Exposure 1

Risk Exposure Categories

1=Tasks may involve exposure to blood/body fluids.

2=Tasks do not involve exposure to blood/body fluids but could result in performing a Category 1 task

3=Tasks do not involve any risk of exposure to blood/body fluids.