Program Manager - Hand Hygiene and Antimicrobial Stewardship (On-Site)

Description

Play a key role in the delivery of world-class patient care. Continuously elevate the quality of care within an award-winning health system. Leverage your expertise to make a real difference in others' lives. At UCLA Health, you can do all this and more.

Reporting to the Director of Clinical Epidemiology & Infection Prevention (CEIP), you will be responsible for strategizing, implementing, and ensuring the ongoing execution of hand hygiene initiatives and antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) across our system. This will involve developing assessment protocols for the evaluation, measurement, and improvement of the programs. You will collaborate directly with clinicians and staff to drive critical efforts with a focus on achieving high reliability and zero harm. Your primary responsibilities will be to ensure that hand hygiene, antimicrobial stewardship, and related CEIP/ASP goals are operationalized and sustained at the department level. This will require you to leverage your knowledge of Lean techniques and other operational improvement methodologies/tools to identify opportunities for improvement. You will be responsible for performance improvement facilitation, managing statistics and reports, developing standard work, and leading improvement teams.

Salary Range: $78,800-175,000/annuallyQualifications

We're seeking an independent, deadline-driven, detail-oriented leader with:

• A related Bachelor's degree - Master's preferred

• Three or more years of experience managing increasingly complex projects

• Project management experience in a healthcare environment preferred

• Knowledge of infection prevention principles for hand hygiene and antimicrobial stewardship a plus

• Expertise with data management, analysis, research, reporting, and documentation

• Ability to prepare reports and presentations

• Proven facilitation, organizational, and time-management skills

• Ability to thrive within a complex, diverse environment with multiple changing demands

• Working knowledge of change management principles

• Experience with Lean principles, process improvement, or other related methodologies

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 270 ambulatory clinics throughout metro Los Angeles, as well as the David Geffen School of Medicine. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles' trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If you're looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, you can at UCLA Health.

UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person's unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.