IPC focal

Job Description

Title: IPC focal

Company Name: Friendship

Vacancy: 1

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-08-06

Application Deadline: 2025-08-12

Education:

Requirements:

Skills Required:

Additional Requirements:

Responsibilities & Context:

Responsibilities:

  IPC Program Implementation & Oversight

• Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of IPC protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• Ensure alignment with national IPC guidelines and WHO standards.

  Surveillance & Risk Assessment

• Conduct regular IPC risk assessments in maternity wards, delivery rooms, operating theaters (C-sections), and neonatal units.

• Monitor and report healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) with a focus on maternal sepsis, neonatal infections, and surgical site infections (SSIs).

  Training & Capacity Building

• Organize regular IPC training sessions for healthcare staff, including midwives, nurses, obstetricians, cleaners, and support staff.

• Conduct bedside coaching and on-the-job mentorship on hand hygiene, aseptic technique, PPE use, and safe injection practices.

• Organize health education sessions for the community

  Hand Hygiene & Cleanliness Promotion

• Monitor hand hygiene compliance using WHO's "5 Moments for Hand Hygiene" approach.

• Coordinate regular hand hygiene audits and feedback sessions.

• Oversee environmental cleaning and disinfection protocols in labor and delivery areas.

  Supply & Waste Management

• Ensure availability and proper use of IPC materials (PPE, hand hygiene products, disinfectants).

• Monitor safe medical waste segregation and disposal practices, especially in labor, delivery, and surgical areas.

  Quality Improvement & Documentation

• Participate in maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality review meetings, providing IPC input and recommendations.

• Maintain IPC documentation, including audit reports, training records, and HAI surveillance data.

  Collaboration & Reporting

• Collaborate with hospital leadership, nursing supervisors, and quality assurance teams to strengthen overall IPC practices.

• Report regularly to the hospital management and district/regional IPC committees.

Activities:

• Conduct daily IPC rounds in OPD, labor, delivery, postnatal, and neonatal units and waste management areas to identify and address infection risks. Ensures daily, weekly, and monthly IPC checklists are duely fiiled out.

• Observe and document staff compliance with hand hygiene, PPE use, and safe injection practices.

• Ensure that all the required SOPs are in place and prepare or update new SOP as per operational needs with consultation with the programme manager and the facility in charge.

• Perform weekly audits of environmental cleaning, sterilization of instruments, and linen management processes.

• Coordinate the implementation of “Five Moments for Hand Hygiene” campaign, including hand rub availability and poster displays.

• Oversee the correct segregation, collection, and disposal of medical waste in all maternity-related departments.

• Ensure that labor and delivery rooms are equipped with necessary IPC supplies (e.g. gloves, gowns, antiseptics, masks).

• Develop an IPC committee, arrange monthly meetings, and report monthly IPC indicators and progress.

• Support sterilization units to ensure proper functioning of autoclaves and adherence to decontamination protocols.

• Track and report stock levels of critical IPC supplies, flagging shortages early to avoid disruptions.

• Maintains effective communication with the programme management team, supervisor, and colleagues.

Skill and Competencies

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s or Diploma in Nursing/Medical Technology or, Bachelor’s in Public Health, with additional training or certification in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is preferred.

• Experience: 2 to 3 years of experience working in an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) team in a healthcare facility.

• Knowledge: Familiarity with WHO and National IPC guidelines, protocols, and best practices.

• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Languages: Proficiency in Bangla and English is preferred.

• Computer Skills: Basic knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

• Cultural Sensitivity: Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and ability to work with diverse communities and refugee populations.

  Read Before Apply

  Please note that application via any other method will not be considered.

  “FRIENDSHIP is committed to safeguarding children, young people, and adults, and employees, Donors, visiting Doctors, visiting Journalists, visitors, beneficiaries including communities where we work and volunteers/interns. We believe every stakeholder and every member of the communities we work with, has the right to be protected from all forms of harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation - regardless of age, race, religion, and gender, status as an individual with a disability or ethnic origin. Therefore, our recruitment policy and procedure fully include background checks and disclosure of criminal records in order to ensure safeguarding. 

  FRIENDSHIP is an equal opportunity employer and will do everything possible to ensure that those who are suitable to work within our values and beliefs are recruited to work for us. Any personal persuasion will result in a disqualification of candidature”.

  Photograph must be enclosed with the resume.