Risk Manager - Remote

Hours:

40 hours per week;
Monday through Friday. This position follows an on-call schedule and may require you to work nights/weekends.

Location:

100% Remote (option to work onsite available)

This role focuses on ensuring the organization's business activities are conducted ethically and in compliance with relevant regulations, laws, and standards. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Risk Management duties:
Identifies, assesses, reduces, and mitigates risks to the organization. Responsibilities also include characterizing potential risks and assessing vulnerability of critical assets to specific risks, risk analysis and modelling to assess probability of specific risks occurring and evaluate/value the impact/consequences of occurrence, developing process and procedures to report on, and manage and mitigate risks to acceptable levels, internal and external stakeholder reporting, including regulatory reporting.

A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. A specialist level role that is a recognized subject matter expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.

Typically manages large projects or processes with limited oversight from manager, coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals, resolving difficult and often complex problems.

Responsible for developing, implementing and coordinating risk management activities, including the identification, evaluation and treatment of risk in the organization. Develops and manages a systematic process to identify, assess, and treat actual and potential exposures to loss. Supports the incident reporting system, evaluates trends and patterns in care and services and work closely with the medical staff, clinical, and administrative staff to reduce the risk of patient harm.

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Nursing, Healthcare Administration or related field.
• Five (5) years of clinical experience or risk management experience.

• Master’s Degree
• Professional Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM).
• Seven (7) years of clinical experience or risk management experience.

• Proactively evaluates areas of organizational risk based on internal assessment and external benchmarking, and implements strategies, policies, and practices that promote patient safety.
• Collaborates in reviewing events involving patient harm or significant deviation of standard procedures which could cause patient harm, and in conducting the harm analysis of such events.
• Reviews and evaluates aggregate adverse event and claims data to identify high-risk activities, procedures and departments.
• Compiles statistics on all areas of risk throughout the hospital to use in identifying, evaluating, eliminating or reducing incidents in high-risk areas. Creates meaningful reports and graphic presentations to assist managers and administrators in assessing the impact of patient safety practices on loss prevention.
• Initiates the investigatory process and manages investigations related to adverse outcomes and events, including interviewing staff, reviewing medical records, assessing policies and procedures, and identifying best practices.
• Initiates safety event huddles, leads the review of adverse events, facilitates root cause and other causal analyses, and works with clinical and administrative leaders in designing…