Infection Preventionist - Quality

St. Peter's Health; Montana; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Peter's Health is seeking an Infection Prevention professional to develop, implement, and monitor the hospital-wide infection prevention and surveillance program. The role focuses on identifying trends, auditing practices, updating policies, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

You will educate staff, patients, and families, collaborate with leadership and clinical teams, and work with public health agencies to reduce infection risks and improve patient safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in nursing, epidemiology, microbiology, clinical laboratory science, pharmacy, respiratory therapy or related clinical field and minimum of 2 years of experience in direct patient care
• Willingness to obtain CIC (Certification in Infection Control) within 1 year of obtaining at least 2080 hours of direct IP work experience

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and monitor the infection prevention and surveillance program across St. Peter’s Health.
• Identify trends, audit practices, update policies, and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Provide education to staff, patients, and families; collaborate with leadership, clinical teams, and public health agencies to reduce infection risks and improve patient safety.

Job description

Job Description
The Infection Prevention is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring the infection prevention and surveillance program across St. Peter’s Health. This role focuses on identifying trends, auditing practices, updating policies, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing education to staff, patients, and families. The position collaborates with leadership, clinical teams, and public health agencies to reduce infection risks and improve patient safety.

Job Description
The Infection Prevention is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring the infection prevention and surveillance program across St. Peter’s Health. This role focuses on identifying trends, auditing practices, updating policies, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing education to staff, patients, and families. The position collaborates with leadership, clinical teams, and public health agencies to reduce infection risks and improve patient safety.
Knowledge/Experience: Hospital epidemiologic methodology, basic principles of general, clinical, and environmental microbiology in the prevention and control of infection among patients, employees, medical staff members, contract service workers, volunteers, students and visitors within the health care facilities. Principles used in sterilization, disinfection, and sanitation in health care facilities. Therapeutic and diagnostic measures, equipment, and procedures used in patient care as related to and impacting on infection control.
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in nursing, epidemiology, microbiology, clinical laboratory science, pharmacy, respiratory therapy or related clinical field and minimum of 2 years of experience in direct patient care
• Willingness to obtain CIC (Certification in Infection Control) within 1 year of obtaining at least 2080 hours of direct IP work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in public health, infection control, epidemiology, or related field
• Experience in hospital-associated infection surveillance and prevention
• Experience with infection prevention committees and multidisciplinary team coordination
• Knowledge of antimicrobial stewardship programs
• Experience with epidemiology or outbreak investigations
• Exposure to healthcare informatics, electronic health records, or infection prevention software
• Background in microbiology, clinical laboratory science, or epidemiology
• Experience with environmental and sterile processing infection prevention
• Certification or specialized training in healthcare safety or quality improvement (Six Sigma, Lean, CQI)
• Previous experience in emergency preparedness or infection control during disease outbreaks
• Previous experience with data analysis and data analytics tools