Safety Specialist

About the role

This position provides leadership in clinical practice, facilitates safety education, and promotes a culture of safety for patients, clients, families, and team members throughout the organization.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a safety leader, collaborating with front line staff to ensure competent and safe care to children and families.
• Participates in safety related clinical improvement initiatives.
• Acts as a change agent to lead, facilitate and support staff to create and sustain a culture of high reliability that focuses on elimination of preventable harm.
• Facilitates and coaches teams regarding risk assessment and analysis and assists them to develop action plans to prevent errors from future occurrences.
• Supports the intake and classification of events into the reporting system and performs cause analysis of safety events in the organization.
• Reviews safety events and develops appropriate tools and training so clinical program leadership learns how to conduct these reviews and can partner effectively with patient safety efforts.
• Collaborates closely with the Risk Management Department in the review of serious safety events.
• Facilitates Daily Operational Briefings.
• Organizes an annual and on-going assessment of safety risks by working closely with the organizational leadership and works with the team to develop annual patient safety goals.
• Coordinates patient safety initiatives, including participation on and/or leadership of project teams, and ensures successful implementation of recommendations/decisions.
• Serves as a resource for employees and medical staff for quality and patient safety improvement initiatives.
• Consults with identified hospital departments or medical staff sections to educate others on the QI process and regulatory standards.
• Maintains a working knowledge of national patient safety goals and patient safety literature and serves as a resource for current patient safety information to hospital and medical staff.
• Serves as a resource for employees and medical staff for quality and patient safety improvement initiatives.
• Supports initiatives to create a patient safety culture using transparency of information as the foundation of this effort.
• Conducts safety rounds at least weekly to inquire about safety concerns with the front line staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in nursing, health care administration, or other related field preferred or relevant experience.
• 3 years nursing and/or health care experience required.
• 1+ years of quality and safety improvement experience, to include consultation or direct work in quality improvement or rapid cycle improvement, failure modes analysis, systems thinking concepts, team facilitation, change management, and/or performance measurement.

Qualifications

• Content expert in safety science and quality improvement concepts.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to negotiate collaborative efforts with other departments and to implement patient safety standards and guidelines.
• Ability to problem solve, make independent decisions, formulate reports, perform statistical analysis and interpret data.

Skills

• Knowledge of human factors.
• Expertise in quality improvement and safety science methodologies and tools.
• Ability to facilitate safety programs, meetings, and teams.
• Ability to coordinate with stakeholders in the development of safety performance measures and/or specific measures that will demonstrate the desired improvement.
• Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and collaborate with others to take action on quality issues.

Benefits

Children's Wisconsin offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement savings plan, paid time off, and more.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $75,000 - $95,000 annually.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is hybrid, requiring local proximity to the Milwaukee area.