IPSD- Infection Prevention Staff Development -RN

IPSD- Infection Prevention Staff Development -RN

Wellington Parc Nursing and Rehabilitation is looking for a dynamic Infection Prevent Staff Development (IPSD), RN to join our teams’ mission and believe in our core values!

We are looking for a candidate to join our team's mission and believe in our core values! Our mission: Through the hearts of our Care Team Members, we provide excellent healthcare to those we serve.

Our Core Values...

L - Listening

E - Empathy

A - Accountability

D - Decisiveness

This is how we create a culture to LEAD with Love.

The Staff Development Coordinator assesses, plans, organizes, implements, evaluates, and coordinates, the community’s infection control and staff development program while performing clinical tasks and assisting in other departments.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure that care team members receive compliance training and education necessary to perform their job responsibilities with compassionate care.
• Ensure that documentation for all training is completed in accordance with state, federal, and compliance requirements.
• Monitor care team member performance and take necessary action for compliance issues.
• Develop and conduct an orientation program in collaboration with the HR Coordinator for new and rehired care team members.
• Provide hands-on clinical orientation and instruction to licensed and unlicensed personnel.
• Conduct or coordinate new care team member job training and CPR training.
• Assess resident needs in relation to staff abilities and design appropriate training programs.
• Work with the Director of Nursing Services (DNS) ensuring clinical competency of nursing staff through observed skills evaluation, and conduct annual competency assessments for licensed nursing staff and Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs).
• Collect, analyze, and provide infection data and trends to nursing staff and health care practitioners.
• Consult on infection risk assessment, prevention, and control strategies.
• Ensure the community’s infection control reports describe the types of infections and are used to identify trends and patterns.
• Assist in department budget preparation and contain expenditures within budget.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a care team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• This position requires for the care team member to be able to perform and complete each essential duty satisfactorily.
• This position requires for the care team member to be able to read, write, have excellent communication skills, and understand the spoken English language to ensure the safety and well-being of the residents.
• This position requires for the care team member to be able to reach (overhead), stand, walk, sit, pull, lift, carry, push, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and twist.
• This position requires for the care team member to be knowledgeable of infection control techniques.

REQUIREMENTS

• Current RN license by State Board of Nursing in state employed; license must be active, valid, and in good standing.
• Valid CPR teaching certificate.
• Experience in the long-term care or working with the geriatric population preferred.

Bluegrass Benefit

• Quarterly Pay Increase
• Company-Paid Life Insurance
• Free Telehealth Services
• Paid time off
• Care Team Member Relief Fund

Join the Wellington Parc Nursing & Rehab Care team where compassion meets excellence!

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