Auditor - Hand Hygiene Compliance

Job Summary: This part-time role involves monitoring and evaluating hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers to ensure adherence to infection prevention standards. The auditor collects data through direct observation, offers constructive feedback to staff for improvement, and uploads audit information for reporting purposes. This position primarily covers weekend days and evening shifts, with comprehensive training provided to support success.

Essential Responsibilities

Observation and Data Collection: Perform direct observations of hand hygiene practices by staff, patients, and visitors across various clinical environments. Observe a range of healthcare professionals including nurses, therapists, physicians, surgeons, and support personnel. Accurately record observations using electronic devices or paper audit sheets, noting technique and compliance rates.

Compliance Monitoring: Evaluate hand hygiene adherence at individual, departmental, unit, and shift levels. Identify areas for improvement in the use of soap and water or alcohol-based sanitizers. Ensure audits align with established guidelines such as those from the CDC, WHO, and Leapfrog.

Feedback and Education: Provide immediate, constructive feedback to healthcare workers to encourage behavior change and enhance compliance as part of quality improvement efforts.

Reporting: Document collected data in required applications to support reporting and further analysis.

Perform other duties as assigned. Skills and Attributes

Technical Proficiency: Comfortable using electronic devices, paper audit tools, and data entry software such as Excel.

Observational Skills: Ability to conduct thorough, objective observations ensuring accurate and unbiased data collection.

Interpersonal Skills: Skilled at delivering constructive feedback and engaging staff to promote positive behavior change.

Training: Completion of approved auditor training and validation at hire, with annual revalidation to maintain current knowledge of audit practices. Education and Experience

Minimum education requirement is a high school diploma or equivalent.

Clinical background is preferred but not mandatory.

Note: This description is not exhaustive and duties may evolve based on organizational needs.

Work Shift: Scheduled weekend days and evening shifts only.