Qa And Infection Prevention & Control Manager.

TRANSGENERATIONAL; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 30 000 - 60 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated General Nurse with expertise in Critical Care and Infection Control. This role involves ensuring compliance with health regulations, leading quality assurance initiatives, and providing training to staff. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills, along with a commitment to improving healthcare standards. Join a team that values excellence and innovation in patient care, where your contributions will directly impact the quality of health services in the community.

Qualifications

• Current registration with SANC as a General Nurse.
• Minimum 2 years experience in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective communication strategies are maintained.
• Assist management with quality management programmes.
• Chair monthly OHS & Infection Control committee meetings.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Organisational Skills

Problem-Solving Skills

Leadership Qualities

Mentoring Skills

Education

Post Basic Diploma in Critical Care

Post Basic Diploma in Infection Control

Post Basic Diploma in Occupational Health

Tools

Quality Improvement Processes

Incident Management Systems

Compliance Audits

Job description

• Current registration with SANC as a General Nurse
• Post Basic Diploma or equivalent in Critical Care, Infection Control and Occupational Health
• Minimum 2 years experience in a similar role
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to initiate and implement Quality Assurance improvement programmes in all the relevant portfolios
• Working knowledge of all relevant legislative acts such as Environmental Management, OHS, Health Act and National Institute of Communicable Diseases, OHSC and Department of Health
• Working knowledge of International Best Practices
• Working knowledge of Quality Improvement Processes utilising PDSA cycles
• Working knowledge of Infection Prevention & Control as well as surveillance & reporting of communicable diseases
• Leadership qualities and mentoring skills

Key Outputs :

• Ensure that all communication improving strategies are maintained and employees are informed of relevant matters in the different forums.
• Incident management system through reporting, investigating, data analysis and factual approach to decision making.
• Assist and support management to ensure that the quality management walkabout programmes include non-compliance, improvement action plans and awareness / adherence to policies and work procedures.
• Comply with legislation & Bylaws relating to the portfolios.
• Chair the monthly OHS & Infection Control committee meetings.
• Investigation of all Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI).
• Review infection control practices in the hospital and simplify and streamline processes
• Waste management operational functions
• Conduct and manage compliance of internal and external audits
• Provide training needs in the abovementioned portfolios
• Development of policies
• Mitigate risks through prevention & continuous improvement program
• Monitor and publish measurement statistics