Infection Prevention Specialist

• Your advice finds a place in daily care: together with healthcare professionals, you translate infection prevention into practice.
• From investigating infection risks to providing education: this position offers both variety and substantive depth.
• Thinking along about more sustainable material use? Here, you research how that aligns with safe care.
• Modern epidemiological techniques and advanced automation support you in recognizing and analyzing infections.
• You work together with experienced colleagues, a dedicated medical microbiologist, and contact persons within the departments.

As an infection prevention specialist, you help prevent healthcare-associated infections and limit the spread of microorganisms within the hospital. You assess risks for patients and staff and advise healthcare professionals and management on appropriate measures. In doing so, you are co-responsible for developing and implementing the infection prevention policy.

You translate guidelines into agreements that colleagues on the ward can work with. What does a measure require of their daily work? And what is needed to apply it correctly? Together with the involved healthcare professionals, you search for solutions that make care safer.

In addition, you will be involved in:

• Monitoring and investigating healthcare infections: you collect and analyze data to recognize infection risks and areas for improvement.
• Developing protocols and guidelines: you keep existing agreements up to date and help implement new measures.
• Sharing knowledge: through education, training, and information, you help colleagues recognize and limit infection risks.
• Guiding improvements: you support departments with infection prevention issues and contribute to research and innovation.

An important collaborative partner is the network of Infection Prevention Contact Persons (CIP). These are healthcare professionals who commit themselves extra to infection prevention within their own department. Together, you identify what can be improved and help colleagues apply measures.

You work in the Infection Prevention department, part of Medical Microbiology and Immunology (MMI). The team consists of 8 infection prevention specialists, 1 sterile medical devices specialist, and 2 infection prevention specialists in training. You also work closely with the medical microbiologist who has infection prevention as a focus area.

Within the team, there is room to challenge existing ways of working and to investigate new solutions. The further development of automation and the connection between infection prevention and sustainability receive much attention in this regard.

You also look beyond your own department: the team collaborates with infection prevention teams in the region, participates in national registries, and conducts research. Additionally, the department trains new infection prevention specialists and contributes to the training of medical microbiology residents.

• A salary between € 3.903 - € 5.503,- gross per month (FWG scale 55 Hospitals Collective Labour Agreement), based on 36 hours per week. We will tailor your salary to your education and work experience.
• A one-year contract for 28-36 hours per week, with a view to permanent employment.
• 8.33% end-of-year bonus in December and 8.33% holiday allowance.
• A pension scheme with PFZW, in which St. Antonius pays 50% of the pension premium.
• Annually 57 hours Personal Life Phase Budget based on a 36-hour work week, which you can use in a way that suits your life stage.
• Tax benefits via our Flexible Benefits System. With this, you can use part of your gross salary for, for example, a bicycle, fitness and sports, study costs, extra travel expenses, or a device.
• Plenty of room to develop professionally and personally via our extensive learning platform with live training and e-learnings.
• Through Epassi, Benefits at Work, and Tickets for Good, you get access to activities, workshops, events, and cultural outings, often for only the administrative costs.

You make it clear why an infection prevention measure is necessary and listen to what colleagues need to work with it. In doing so, you maintain an overview, work carefully, and involve others in your advice. You seek out your colleagues to share knowledge and solve issues together.

At a minimum, you bring:

• A completed, CZO-recognized education as an infection prevention specialist.
• Registration in the VHIG quality register.
• A few years of work experience as an infection prevention specialist.
• Are you doubting whether your experience matches? Please feel free to get in touch; we are happy to think along with you.

At St. Antonius, you work on (highly) complex care with your heart in the right place. We are a top-clinical teaching hospital where patient care, education, and research go hand in hand. Thanks to our size, we make a real impact, but remain agile and personal.

Our clinical priorities are heart & vascular, lungs, and cancer. Additionally, we are one of the leaders in the Netherlands in the field of value-based care. This means that we do not only look at what is medically possible, but especially at what truly makes a difference for the individual patient. By structurally measuring the most important outcomes and learning together, also with the other Santeon hospitals, we make care a little bit better every day. With us, every employee, including you, makes a difference for the patient.

Would you like to know more about the work or the team? Contact Wendy Bril, infection prevention specialist, via 088-3207459, or Tim Miedema, infection prevention specialist, via 088-3207468.

Send your CV and motivation before November 29 via the application button. We look forward to meeting you.