Manager, Infection Prevention
Company: Northwell Health
Location: New York City
Posted on: February 6, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description /n /n Manages, plans, organizes,
and evaluates tertiary hospital infection prevention and control
related activities and staff. Supports the leadership in
implementing related initiatives to improve patient safety. /n Job
Responsibility /n /n /n - Provides leadership to Infection
Prevention team members and supervisors by communicating and
guiding toward achieving department objectives. /n - Develops,
communicates, and builds consensus for goals in alignment with the
health system. /n - Ensures implementation and evaluation of
hospital’s infection prevention goals, objectives, plans, policies,
and procedures. /n - Selects, develops, manages, and evaluates
staff; prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to
optimize operational service. /n - Manages hospital infection
surveillance and risk assessment activities in accordance with
internal and external guidelines; ensures identification and
resolution of infection risks to patients, staff and community. /n
- Facilitates investigations on epidemiologically important
infections, clusters, and exposures to identify sources. /n -
Reports findings to the leadership and expedites interventions and
risk reduction strategies; ensures all hospital stakeholders are
informed of activity. /n - Provides infection prevention
orientation and regular in-services to hospital staff that address
standards of care, infection risks, evidence-based practices,
sterilization, high/low level disinfection, hand hygiene,
instrument and equipment storage, etc. Partners with
multidiscipline team members within hospital to optimize patient
care and maintain/increase compliance with infection prevention and
control practices. /n - Promotes proactive identification and
elimination of infectious risks throughout the hospital. /n -
Ensures compliance with government and agency regulations; prepares
for and participates in external regulatory reviews to maintain
accreditation(s); maintains integrity of related conventional and
computer-aided records and information. /n - Performs related
duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered
essential functions of the job under the Americans with
Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related
are not essential functions. /n /n Job Qualification /n /n
Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology, Medical Technology, Public
Health, Nursing or related field, required. Current license to
practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State,
preferred. Current certification by the Certification Board of
Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC) within two (2) years of
entry date into position. 6-8 years of relevant experience,
required and 2-5 years of leadership/management experience,
required. /n *Additional Salary Detail The salary range and/or
hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base
compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this
position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified
in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or
rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g.,
location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience,
education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal
equity).
Keywords: Northwell Health, Cherry Hill , Manager, Infection Prevention, Healthcare , New York City, New Jersey
