Patient Safety Director, Risk Management

Responsibilities

The Patient Safety Director will serve as the patient safety officer in the assigned area(s), developing collaborative relationships to lead and provide direction to the Reaching for Zero patient safety strategy.

• Develop a comprehensive patient safety plan, including continuous improvement efforts and ongoing risk assessment.
• Build a culture of safety, supporting the implementation of systems to decrease patient harm and participating in formal process improvement activities.
• Support and encourage safety event reporting and help leaders use safety event data for organizational learning.
• Conduct safety event classification and cause analysis on safety events in collaboration with risk management and facility leadership.
• Collaborate with the accreditation team to provide organizational response to regulatory standards related to patient safety.
• Develop patient safety education programs.
• Identify safety events, perform safety event classification and cause analysis according to Norton Healthcare policy and procedures, in collaboration with risk management and leadership.
• Provide organizational response to regulatory standards related to patient safety and conduct mandatory state reporting in collaboration with risk management and the accreditation team.
• Serve as the patient safety officer at assigned facilities or entities, providing direction to the Reaching for Zero strategic plan.
• Develop a comprehensive facility/entity patient safety plan that includes continuous evaluation and ongoing risk assessment to eliminate preventable healthcare harm.
• Promote a culture of safety and the use of Just Culture principles through routine communication, training, and education of evidence-based safety science to employees, leaders, and providers.
• Promote standard leader reliability skills and employee universal reliability skills.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in healthcare.
• One year of management experience in healthcare.
• Bachelor’s degree (required).
• Master’s degree (desired).
• Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS).