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Infection Control Medical Director – Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans

Under the direction of the System Medical Director of Infection Control, the IC Medical Director – OMC-NO serves in a strategic leadership role with oversight of Infection Prevention and Control. The IC Medical Director will collaborate with senior leadership and the Infection Control department to decrease hospital acquired infections and improve provider engagement with infection prevention best practices.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

· Embracing a leadership identity: Clear understanding and commitment to success as defined by collective performance; acceptance of responsibility for the performance of others.

· Professionalism: Understanding of and commitment to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.

· Recruitment, Performance assessment, compensation, and feedback: Basic capacities in interviewing and proving feedback.

· Teamwork: Commitment to collaboration; understanding how to assign roles and run effective meetings.

· Negotiation, conflict resolution; interdepartmental collaboration: Able to frame issues from multiple perspectives, establish and nurture communication and problem-solving linkages with other sites/sections.

· A stepwise approach to dealing with problematic physicians: Basic understanding of how to set expectations, document behavior, provide feedback; must be comfortable doing so.

· Communication, having the difficult conversation: Can communicate clearly verbally and in writing; able to graciously confront difficult situations.

· Project Planning and execution: Able to lay out a straightforward project plan and timeline.

· Strategy Development in the context of Ochsner’s system strategy and operating system: Able to set, track, and achieve local goals; fundamental understanding of the operating calendar and related activities.

· Expertise in Epidemiology and disease transmission: can manage active clinical process elements bringing the best, current science regarding infection prevention to the caregivers and clinicians in all patient care settings including the clinics

· System Leadership: Basic knowledge of potential synergies across the System.

Education and Experience:

· Board certified or eligible for certification in physician’s primary specialty

· Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO

· Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice

Required:

This position involves the handling of hazardous drugs and/or hazardous drug contaminated products either through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste, including contact with patients who may receive hazardous drugs.

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