Ryders Health Management is a family-owned long term care provider with 8 skilled nursing facilities across Connecticut, a homecare company and 70-year track record of quality care. We are currently hiring a Infection Control Nurse. Come join our team!
Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement a practical system of detecting, evaluating, recording, and reporting infections which originate with facility personnel.
• Assist the personnel director in developing and implementing our employee health services program, to include individual counseling.
• Provide employee counseling as outlined in our infection control and employee health program
• Works in a collaborative effort to evaluate and revise control practices and aseptic technique to ensure continued sanitation practices are maintained throughout the facility.
• Establishes the criteria for classifying all routine and reasonably anticipated job-related tasks to ensure that tasks involving exposure to blood/body fluids are properly identified and recorded.
Infection Control Nurse Pay Rate:
• Pay rate:
Benefits: (*applies to 24 hours or more,**Full-Time only)
• Competitive pay
• Shift differentials
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance*
• Paid Time Off*
• 401(k) with employer match*
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Paid Meal Period
• Paid Holiday Off**
• Employee Assistance Program
• Longevity Credit**
• Short- & Long-Term Disability*
• Uniform Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Program
• Free Parking
On-the-job training in Infection Control available to qualified RNs
Requirements:
• Must possess, as a minimum, a Nursing Degree from an accredited college or university and be a graduate of a Connecticut approved RN program.
• Be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 40 pounds to a minimum height of 3 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 4 feet.