In this Patient Safety Specialist role you will adhere to the following job attributes for the facility:

- Report to the Director of Patient Safety, as the Patient Safety Specialist you will participate in the promotion of a safety-supportive culture and consistent application of practice-based medicine and the implementation of the Patient Safety Plan.

- Actively identify and anticipates patient safety opportunities, and determines risk for exposure of harm/potential harm.

- Coordinate, investigate, analyze, and respond to quality/patient safety issues, events, and significant care issues or trends.

- Conduct surveillance, analysis, and data reporting for patient safety, while complying with regulatory/accreditation requirements.

- Serve as a subject matter expert on internal and external patient safety matters.

- Collaborate with Health leadership and operational partners, Adult and Peri operative Medical Directors for Quality and Safety, risk management, incident reporting content managers, and other groups as appropriate and supports/ oversees Patient Safety Committee efforts.

- Support educational programs in patient safety, implements organization and regulatory safety initiatives using performance improvement and quality tools.

- Help to spread “lessons learned” from adverse events, as well as successful initiatives, to other units and departments in order to avoid future exposure of harm, fosters a clinical environment of service excellence.

- Coordinate various efforts to improve patient safety throughout the organization by identifying problem areas, assessment, and escalation to leadership, oversight of projects related to compliance with the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals and other regulatory agencies.

- Support the Patient Safety leadership team by participating and facilitating Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, Culture of Patient Safety Survey, and other prospective and retrospective event review activities.

- Maintain close collaborative relationships with nursing and physician leadership teams in the development, implementation, and monitoring of corrective action plans to assure timely and efficient review and follow-up on patient safety events.

- Monitor data on patient safety-related issues to interpret trends and to measure and assess the health of the patient safety program.

Department Name: Patient Safety

Department Description: The Department of Quality & Safety consists of Adult Quality & Safety, our children's units, Quality & Safety, Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Prevention, Analytics & Clinical Effectiveness, and Clinical Documentation Integrity. The teams are made of multidisciplinary professionals with diverse backgrounds. The role of the Department is the support the facility Health to deliver safe, equitable, and high-quality care to the communities we serve.

Patient Safety is a division within the Quality and Patient Safety Department. The focus of the Patient Safety division is preventing, mitigating, or reducing harm from medical errors and system defects. Activities include risk surveillance and analysis of potential or actual medical errors and hazardous conditions, and process improvement to prevent future adverse events.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a healthcare-related profession including nursing, public health, healthcare administration, or other relevant fields.
• Strong skills in data analysis, project management, facilitating group work, and working in a hospital environment with systems improvement.
• Thorough knowledge of clinical improvement issues and patient safety methodologies, tools, regulatory requirements, and policies.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to effectively manage time, organize competing priorities, address complex issues as they arise, and see projects through to completion on schedule.
• Strong interpersonal skills for collaborating effectively with a broad range of clinical and technical staff, representatives of external regulatory agencies, and mentoring staff.
• Proven ability to effectively convey complex clinical, technical, and educational information both verbally and in writing, and to produce high-quality reports, documentation, and presentations.
• Strong knowledge of various clinical and business software packages and of the specialized applications and data management programs used in patient safety and quality improvement systems.
• Experience with a variety of methods and skills for adverse event monitoring and remediation including root cause analysis, and failure mode effect analysis
• This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all of the Medical Center locations we run. The Patient Safety Specialist will have the ability to work remotely and on-site (hybrid.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with electronic health records, including CPOE, decision support, and clinical documentation
• Experience in a large multi-facility health system/ academic institution
• Experience in Perioperative Services / Operating Room
• Master’s degree or equivalent in a healthcare-related profession including nursing, public health, healthcare administration, or other relevant fields.

License/Certification: Licensed Clinician in the State of California

Certified: Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and Lean/Six Sigma

Position Type: Full Time

Skills and Certifications [note: bold skills and certification are required]
Data Analysis
Licensed Clinician in the State of California
Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and Lean/Six Sigma

Security Clearance Required: No

Visa Candidate Considered: No

Compensation

Base Salary - USD $117,000 to $157,000

Full-time

Benefits - Full

Relocation Assistance Available - Possible for ideal candidate

Commission Compensation - No

Bonus Eligible - Yes

Overtime Eligible - No

Interview Travel Reimbursed - No

Candidate Details

2+ to 5 years experience

Seniority Level - Associate

Management Experience Required - No

Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree

Willingness to Travel - Never