Infection Control Nurse
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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.