The Townsville Hospital and Health Service vision is world-class healthcare for northern Queensland.
Our purpose is `great care every day'.

Infection Prevention and Control Unit
The primary objective of the infection prevention and control service is to prevent healthcare-associated infections, promote patient safety, and ensure staff well-being. This is accomplished through the delivery of expert advice and a service-oriented approach that prioritizes preventing healthcare-associated infections, improving patient safety, safeguarding staff from workplace-acquired infections, averting harm, and offering tailored guidance to our patients and staff.

Role responsibilities

• Provide high quality secretarial/administrative support to the infection prevention and control team.
• Deliver exceptional person-centred customer service to staff members accessing the Staff Health Hub in an effective and courteous manner.
• Conduct respiratory fit testing in accordance with the respiratory fit testing program.
• Collate, track and maintain vaccine preventable disease database in accordance with the Vaccination Preventable Disease (VPD) process.
• Independently manage the VPD recall process for staff across the THHS.
• Manage the interface between staff vaccinations and the Australian Immunisation Register.
• Collate and track hand hygiene auditor submissions across the ACSQHS site to ensure compliance with the national hand hygiene initiative.
• Assist with the management of staff biohazard injuries by creating encounters in ieMR.
• Produce recall letters for staff and track responses for staff exposed to occupational exposures.
• Prepare and distribute agendas for meetings, recording of accurate minutes and identify and monitor actions from meetings.

Employment Term

• Permanent full-time

Generous remuneration package value up to $94,810 p.a.comprising:

• Salary rates between $2864.10 - $3185.10 p.f. (AO3)
• Annual leave with 17.5% loading
• 12.75% employer superannuation contribution
• Other employment benefits may include: salary sacrificing options ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/employment/conditions/salary/sacrifice ), locality allowances, employee wellness and assistance programs and access to corporate discounts

Role requirements

• Aged Care Pre-Employment Screening: Applicants are advised this position works in an identified Aged Care Facility as per the Aged Care Act 1997 and therefore requires employees and volunteers to have a current National Police Certificate.  Queensland Health will facilitate applicants obtaining the above National Police Certificate. 

For additional information regarding the responsibilities and/or other requirements for this position please refer to the role description. 

Townsville North Queensland ( https://www.townsvillenorthqueensland.com.au/ )

Unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.