Risk Management Specialist - HumanEdge : Job Details

Opportunity Description

Risk Safety Specialist needed for growing Healthcare facility. This is a contract role available ASAP with an opportunity for fulltime

Job Duties

• Duties include review and analysis of event reports and other data to identify trends and opportunities for risk reduction and performance improvement across the enterprise.
• Identifies preventable versus non preventable outcomes through safety event classification, prepares reports on risk/patient safety trends for the enterprise and assists in monitoring of action plans associated with cause analysis activities, including root cause analysis.
• Provides assistance during investigation of safety events, operations support for SFMZ program and other departmental initiatives.
• Serves as a liaison for the department on hospital wide committees.
• Provides support in performance of cause analysis activities, including apparent cause analysis, root cause analysis, failure modes and effects analysis and common cause analysis.
• Assists in communication of risk management and patient safety activity across the enterprise.
• Acts as a coach to colleagues in Safety First Mission Zero program, patient safety concepts and skills across the enterprise and produces/assists in the production of committee meeting minutes, reports, educational content for enterprise, dashboards and data entry into applicable software systems in use by the department.
• Supports operations in department in accordance with overall hospital strategies, policies and procedures.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Experience & Skills Required

• 3 years of recent clinical experience in the acute care setting as a healthcare professional or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Prior experience in risk management/quality in the healthcare setting preferred.

• Knowledge of medico-legal matters, risk management/patient safety programs preferred.

Certifications

• CPHRM or CPPS required or must be obtained within 2 years of hire date
• RN a plus