Director Patient Safety and Risk Management

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, culture).

• Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.

• Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design

• Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility.

• Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies

• Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety (e.g. Patient Safety Rounds, Event Response, Disclosure).

• Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey.

• Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.

What qualifications you will need

• Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required;
If not already CPPS, must obtain certification within 12 months of hire.

• Maintain CPPS while in role

• Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare related field required.
• Three to five years manager/director level Healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality required.

• Healthcare experience should be recent, 3yrs within the last 7yrs, and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc

Additional Information

• Leap Frog;
Patient Safety Grade A

• 5 full time direct reports

• Reports to the VP of Quality

General Comments

Salary Range $_90_K min - $_135_ max K;
Based on years of experience

** Up To 15% bonus annual bonus, based on performance KPI's

Sign On Bonus
: _case by case _

Relocation Assistance
: _case by case_

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Prevent future harm by initiating and overseeing proactive evaluation and redesign of systems to improve care processes (e.g. forcing functions, checklists, error causation thinking, human factors, applied informatics, culture).

• Support improved outcomes by emphasizing both appropriate behaviors and robust systems that include concise accountability measures and follow-up.

• Improve consistent delivery of evidence-based care and reduction in preventable harm by focusing on reliability and applying the principles of reliable design

• Effectively report, investigate, and analyze patient safety incidents, medical errors and potential risks in the facility.

• Facilitate thorough and credible serious event analysis that result in strong sustainable improvement strategies

• Partner with facility leadership to establish activities that enable and sustain an open and fair environment promoting learning, safe systems, and appropriately managing behavioral choices related to patient safety (e.g. Patient Safety Rounds, Event Response, Disclosure).

• Champion completion of Culture of Safety Survey.

• Facilitate analysis of culture of safety survey results such that data-driven action plans lead to targeted outcomes.

What qualifications you will need

• Certification in Patient Safety (CPPS) required;
If not already CPPS, must obtain certification within 12 months of hire.

• Maintain CPPS while in role

• Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare related field required.
• Three to five years manager/director level Healthcare experience in patient safety, risk, and/or quality required.

• Healthcare experience should be recent, 3yrs within the last 7yrs, and within a clinical setting such as Hospital, Ambulatory Surgery Center, etc

Additional Information

• Leap Frog;
Patient Safety Grade A

• 5 full time direct reports