Infection Prevention Data Analyst

Do you want to use data to contribute to better patient safety and the prevention of healthcare-associated infections? Within the Infection Prevention team of the Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention (MMI) department, we work daily on monitoring, preventing, and combating infections in the hospital. Data play an increasingly large role in this. You will collect, analyze, and interpret data regarding healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and the transmission of microorganisms. You will translate this data into actionable insights for infection prevention specialists, medical microbiologists, and other healthcare professionals. In this way, you contribute to surveillance, outbreak investigations, evaluation of infection prevention measures, and scientific research. Additionally, you will develop dashboards and reports that make infection trends visible and allow the impact of interventions to be monitored.

• Setting up, executing, and further developing surveillance of healthcare-associated infections, antimicrobial resistance, and other infection prevention-relevant indicators;

• Supporting outbreak investigations by combining data from various sources and making transmission patterns insightfull;

• Analyzing and interpreting microbiological, clinical, and epidemiological data to support infection prevention policy;

• Evaluating the effectiveness of infection prevention measures and contributing to quality improvement projects;

• Supporting scientific research within the field of infection prevention.

The Medical Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention (MMI) department provides microbiological diagnostics for healthcare providers in Maastricht UMC+, general practitioners, the GGD, and other healthcare institutions in the South Limburg region. For Maastricht UMC+ and a portion of the external requesters, the department also provides infection prevention.

MMI consists of a dynamic team of over 100 employees and includes both clinical diagnostic and research laboratories. In addition to performing routine microbiological diagnostics, research, education, training, and infection prevention are also important tasks of the department.

You will become part of the Infection Prevention (IP) unit: an enthusiastic team of 5 infection prevention specialists, 1 sterile medical device / endoscope specialist (DSMH), and 1 infection prevention assistant, led by 2 medical microbiologists. The new Electronic Patient Record contains an enormous amount of data with which we can improve the infection safety of our hospital in the future. Your specific knowledge and skills will contribute to this goal.

Depending on education and experience, the salary is at least € 4,033 and at most € 5,528 gross per month for a full-time position. This salary is exclusive of holiday allowance and a year-end bonus of 8.3% of your gross annual salary. 

This concerns a temporary employment contract of 3 years, for an average of 28 to 36 hours, in accordance with article 2.4.2 of the Cao umc.

At Maastricht UMC+, we ensure that you have everything to make your contribution to ultimate care. The right employment conditions belong with that. Read here what we offer you.

For more information about the position, please contact Dr. Wil van der Zwet, medical microbiologist infection prevention, reachable at tel. 043 - 3876644 or via e-mail secretariaat.mmi@mumc.nl.

For information about the application procedure, follow this link. General information about employment conditions and working at Maastricht UMC+ can be found here. Cannot find the answer to your question? Please contact the Recruitment team.

Applications for this vacancy can be submitted up to and including December 2nd.

We recruit our candidates ourselves and do not work with external agencies for this vacancy.