IPC focal
Job Description
Title: IPC focal
Company Name: Friendship
Vacancy: 1
Age: Na
Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Published: 2025-04-10
Application Deadline: 2025-04-16
Education:
- A degree in public health with a focus on infection prevention and control, or, a degree in DMF with at least 3 years of experience as IPC focal.
Requirements:
Skills Required:
Additional Requirements:
Skill and Competencies:
Experience:
- Previous experience in infection prevention and control, preferably in low resource settings or with vulnerable populations.
Knowledge:
- Familiarity with IPC guidelines, protocols, and best practices.
Communication Skills:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively train and educate healthcare workers and community members, considering potential language and cultural barriers.
Languages:
- Proficiency in English and local languages is preferred for effective communication.
Cultural Sensitivity:
- Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and ability to work with diverse communities and refugee populations.
Responsibilities & Context:
Responsibilities:
IPC Program Implementation & Oversight:
- Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of IPC protocols and standard operating procedures (SOPs) specific to maternity care, labor, and delivery.
- 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.
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 ward rounds in labor, delivery, postnatal, and neonatal units to identify and address infection risks.
- Observe and document staff compliance with hand hygiene, PPE use, and safe injection practices.
- Facilitate monthly IPC training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff, including cleaning personnel.
- Perform weekly audits of environmental cleaning, sterilization of instruments, and linen management processes.
- Monitor and report all suspected healthcare-associated infections (e.g. postpartum sepsis, neonatal sepsis, SSIs) using surveillance tools.
- Lead root cause analyses and provide IPC-related recommendations following maternal or neonatal infection-related complications or deaths.
- 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).
- Review and update IPC SOPs specific to maternity services annually, or as needed.
- 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.
Job Other Benifits:
Employment Status: Contractual
Job Work Place:
Company Information:
Gender: Male and Female can apply
Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job
Category: NGO/Development
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| Jahangirnagar University | 2.21% |
| University of South Asia | 1.99% |
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| Northern University Bangladesh | 1.10% |
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