Core responsibilities and duties:

• Policy development: Create, modify and update policies and procedures for infection prevention and control program according to updated guidelines ensuring they align with national and international standards. 
• Monitoring and auditing: Conduct regular rounds and audits to monitor compliance with infection control rules and identify areas for improvement. 
• Surveillance: prevent/ decrease hospital acquired infections by a group of coherent activities:
• Staff training and education: Provide training and education to medical and non-medical staff on proper infection control practices.
• Risk assessment: Perform risk assessments and inspections of hospital environments to identify and mitigate potential infection hazards. 
• Data and reporting: Maintain infection control records, track infection rates, and prepare reports for management and regulatory bodies. 

1. General IPC policies affecting most of the medical services affecting hospital departments (aseptic technique, correct PPE use through donning and doffing, waste segregation, transmission based precautions)
2. Specialised care units with special procedures need detailed focus for better medical management (radiology department, laboratory and specific outpatient units)
3. Make quality based Monitoring for medical practices (types of procedures, categories of HCW or certain risky procedure)
4. Follow-up trends and deviations in medical practices and make possible roots cause analysis.
5. Provide methods and solutions to improve staff practices and services through step wise application and measurement.
6. Report and give feedback about improvement and practices defects that need further investigation.
7. Track, collect and analyse data regarding patient vital signs, symptoms and clinical data on regular basis.
8. Make staff interviews to track any new patient conditions change.
9. Conduct surveillance program validation according to updated case definitions.
10. Investigate suspected outbreaks to identify causes and implement preventive measures. 
11. All hospital staff to be aware about the standard precautions (hand hygiene, PPE, waste segregation, linen management, NSI management etc…)
12. Special units (ICUs) to be aware about (care bundles, isolation precautions etc…)
13. Daily assessment for hospital wide structural threats to the patient health.
14. Units-wide surveillance for transmissible illnesses from staff to patients by visual or conducted inspection if needed.
15. Risk due to re-emerging community organisms through epidemic or pandemic diseases affecting the hospital and the patient health.

Key skills and qualifications

• Professional background: Qualifications typically come from a background in nursing, microbiology, epidemiology, or a related healthcare science.
• Analytical skills: Ability to analyse and interpret infection control data. 
• Investigative skills: Capability to investigate outbreaks and root causes of infections. 
• Communication skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for educating staff and consulting with medical professionals. 
• Documentation skills: Meticulous record-keeping and report-writing abilities. 

1. Records for all KPI generated data for any future refer or retrieval.
2. Records for NSI incidents, suspected outbreak investigations and occupational staff health issues.
3. Reported cases to national regulatory bodies (MOH re-portable diseases etc…)