Patient Safety and Quality Consultant

* Update professional knowledge applicable to the role by participating in education opportunities such as reading professional publications and networking locally and regionally.
* Complete required continuing education to maintain certification (as applicable).Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) preferred

Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) preferred

Certified Project Manager (PMP) preferred

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt preferred### Patient Safety-Focused

Summary:

Patient Safety & Quality Consultant The
** Patient Safety & Quality Consultant
** is responsible for advancing a culture of patient safety across the health system by leading initiatives that reduce harm, improve reliability, and strengthen safety processes. The role partners with executive, physician, nursing, and operational leaders to identify safety risks, analyze adverse events, implement evidence-based improvements, and drive sustainable change that improves patient outcomes.

Primary Patient Safety Responsibilities
* Lead and facilitate patient safety improvement initiatives designed to prevent patient harm and improve clinical outcomes.
* Facilitate
** Root Cause Analyses (RCAs)
** to identify system vulnerabilities and develop corrective actions.
* Apply
** high reliability organization principles
** to strengthen safety culture, reduce variation, and improve process consistency.
* Promote a
** Just Culture
** approach by focusing on system and process improvements rather than individual blame.
* Foster
** psychological safety
** through transparent communication of safety and performance information.
* Identify safety trends, measure the effectiveness of interventions, and prioritize opportunities for risk reduction and harm prevention.
* Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to redesign processes that detect, mitigate, and prevent patient harm.
* Improve care transitions and healthcare processes to ensure safe, effective, equitable, efficient, and timely care delivery.

Key Areas of Expertise
* Patient Safety and Harm Prevention
* Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
* High Reliability Principles
* Just Culture
* Change Management
* Team Facilitation and Stakeholder Engagement
* Healthcare Process Redesign and Risk Reduction### Executive Summary The Patient Safety & Quality Consultant leads organization-wide patient safety efforts by investigating safety events, facilitating root cause analyses, applying high reliability and just culture principles, identifying and mitigating system risks, and partnering with clinical and operational leaders to implement sustainable improvements that prevent patient harm and improve patient outcomes.