Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Northwest Kidney Centers seeks a Employee Health Program Manager to support employee health and quality administration in a full-time, hybrid position (Burien, WA).

Shift: Full-time, Monday-Friday, Hybrid. 

Purpose

The Employee Health Program Manager is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating Employee Health activities across Northwest Kidney Centers to ensure a safe environment for patients, healthcare providers, and visitors. This role serves as an expert consultant on Employee Health issues and oversees Exposure Control and Employee Health outcomes to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, as well as industry guidelines such as CDC, NHSN, and APIC. The manager develops and implements educational programs related to employee health throughout the organization.

Duties

1. Program Development and Oversight

• Develops and implements standards and strategic plans to control and reduce the risk of infectious diseases among staff.
• Creates and revises evidence-based, organization-wide Infection Prevention and Employee Health policies and procedures.
• Develops, implements, monitors, and evaluates the annual Infection Prevention Plan.
• Conducts Risk Assessments and ensures successful implementation of the NKC Infection Control Plan.
• Oversees the accuracy and completeness of the Employee Health database.
• Develops and manages Exposure Control Plans in collaboration with the Infection Preventionist and Clinical Directors.  

2. Surveillance and Compliance

• Performs targeted surveillance and analyzes trends in infectious outcomes among patients, staff, and visitors.
• Implements interventions and performance improvement activities based on surveillance data.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory standards from agencies such as OSHA, CMS, CDC, and WA State Department of Health.
• Reports communicable diseases to Public Health departments and other authorities in a timely manner.
• Monitors construction and renovation projects and participates in planning and pre-occupancy activities.

3. Education and Staff Engagement  

• Responsible for Employee Health education curriculum for staff orientation.
• Provides annual infection prevention in-services and education for all staff.
• Implements and educates staff on safe practices to prevent exposure to infectious diseases such as Hepatitis B/C, HIV, MRSA/VRE, Ebola, and C. Diff.
• Collaborates with units to develop and monitor infection control plans related to QAPI, audits, CMS, and improvement projects.
• Supports and promotes NKC plans, programs, initiatives, and employee activities.

4 . Representation and Collaboration

• Acts as a liaison between NKC and local Public and Occupational Health Departments.
• Represents the organization on internal and external committees and meetings.
• Collaborates with departments and services to improve employee health outcomes

5. Other Responsibilities

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• BSN required (consideration for current NKC employees in a BSN program). MSN preferred.
• Minimum three (3) years’ experience in Employee Health/Infection prevention.
• Minimum two (2) years of management or supervisory experience in a clinical setting.
• Experience in dialysis environment preferred.

Licensing/Certification:  

• Washington State RN license
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Must have a valid Washington State Driver's License, proof of insurance and ability to travel to all NKC's facilities.

Benefit offerings for eligible employees (.6-1.0 FTE)  

• Choice of 3 medical insurance plans through Kaiser Permanente (PPO, HMO & HDHP)
• Delta Dental
• Vision Services Plan
• 401 Retirement match and discretionary match
• Disability benefits such as Short-term & Long-term Plans
• Life & AD&D Plans
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement of up to $4,000 annually
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Transit Subsidy
• Paid Time Off includes personal time off and 8 Holidays. PTO will accrue bi-weekly and will be pro-rated based on the FTE. The accrual rate will be 7.39 hours each bi-weekly pay period for staff.

About Northwest Kidney Centers

Founded in 1962 as the world’s first outpatient dialysis provider , Northwest Kidney Centers operates 19 dialysis clinics across the Puget Sound region in addition to hospital-based services and a large home-based dialysis program. We are a not-for-profit, community-based organization and consistently rank among the top dialysis providers in the United States in quality of care, patient outcomes and transplant rates.

At Northwest Kidney Centers, teamwork, integrity, respect, excellence and stewardship guide our approach to how we work. We differentiate ourselves by our patient centered approach and active commitment to advancing kidney research and dialysis innovation. Key to our success is the compassion and expertise of our dedicated team of staff that care for those we serve. 

Equal Employment Opportunity
Northwest Kidney Center is an equal employment opportunity employer.

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Job Tags

Bi-weekly pay, Full time, Temporary work, Local area, Work from home, Flexible hours, Shift work, Monday to Friday,

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