What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Infection Prevention Specialist position at Corewell Health?
About the Role: We are seeking a highly motivated Clinical Infection Prevention Specialist to join our dynamic team at Corewell Health. As a key player in our organization, you will be responsible for driving operational improvement across our inpatient spaces. This involves spearheading quality improvement activities that enhance clinical and non-clinical areas, ensuring measurable business process enhancements and championing infection prevention principles. If you have a background in infection prevention or the passion to learn and oversee infection prevention, we invite you to bring your expertise to our team and help us elevate healthcare standards.
**Key Responsibilities:**
• Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing processes and develop sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable clinical and business process improvements.
• Collects and analyzes process and quality data to initiate, develop, and recommend operational practices and procedures that focus on enhanced safety, increased productivity, and reduced cost.
• Utilize infection prevention information, research, and other quantitative data in the analysis and synthesis of plans to mitigate risks related to infections, streamlining of processes, or improve performance.
• Serves as an internal consultant by providing guidance on infection prevention, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization practices and products.
• Facilitates quality improvement activities to stabilize processes, reduce variation, and improve outcomes to establish a culture of safe and infection-free care.
• May participate in the budgetary, staff recruitment, and policy review process.
**Key Responsibilities:**
• Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing processes and develop sustainable, repeatable, and quantifiable clinical and business process improvements.
• Collects and analyzes process and quality data to initiate, develop, and recommend operational practices and procedures that focus on enhanced safety, increased productivity, and reduced cost.
• Utilize infection prevention information, research, and other quantitative data in the analysis and synthesis of plans to mitigate risks related to infections, streamlining of processes, or improve performance.
• Serves as an internal consultant by providing guidance on infection prevention, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization practices and products.
• Facilitates quality improvement activities to stabilize processes, reduce variation, and improve outcomes to establish a culture of safe and infection-free care.
• May participate in the budgetary, staff recruitment, and policy review process.
