Infection Control Nurse

Company Description: Mystic Healthcare is a 100-bed, family-owned skilled nursing facility in Mystic, Connecticut specializing in short-term rehabilitation and long-term 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:

• Sign On Bonus – up to $

• 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.

• Proof of Covid19 vaccination

• Proof of Covid 19 booster