Patient Safety Spec - Roper Hospital
Patient Safety Spec - Roper Hospital
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Job Description
Thank you for considering a career at Roper St. Francis Healthcare!
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Work Shift:
Days (United States of America)Location: Roper Hospital Charleston SC
Shift: Day shift 8:00am5:00pm
Primary Function/General Purpose of Position
The Patient Safety Specialist is responsible for supporting daytoday continuous patient safety improvement for Roper St. Francis Healthcare. The Patient Safety Specialist collaborates with key stakeholders to optimize quality and patient safety culture across the healthcare system. The Specialist proficiently facilitates patient safety efforts and coaches others in the development of patient safety improvement capabilities with emphasis on root cause identification and process redesign and measurement providing direction to departments on the planning of a systematic organizationwide approach to continuous patient safety improvement with the goals of zero harm and Just Culture.
Essential Job Functions
Assists with the coordination of the annual analysis and implementation of the organizations Patient Safety Plan.
Prepares Quality reports scorecards and presentations.
Provides project management and overall facilitation for prioritizing and advocating patient safety initiatives at the facility and unit level. Provides ongoing updates to project champions and stakeholders. Coordinates the departmental Patient Safety meetings analyzes trends of performance metrics. Leads casual analyses such as root cause analyses and compact cause analyses. Identifies opportunities for improvement develops and maintains action plans. Measures success of these action plans and creates the records and followup metrics for each activity; reassesses approach to maximize success.
Assists leadership in defining key performance indicators and developing measurement tools to evaluate quality improvements. Coordinates patient safety culture assessment efforts.
Supports regulatory compliance issues related to patient safety sentinel event alerts National Patient Safety goals etc.
Coordinates the FMEA (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) process and other patient safety tools such as patient safety risk assessments when appropriate.
Reports events to our organizations Patient Safety Organization on an ongoing basis.
Consults with and trains staff to implement monitoring and measurement tools and data analysis techniques.
This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities skills duties requirements or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other jobrelated duties as required by their supervisor subject to reasonable accommodation.
Licensing/Certification
Clinical or professional licensure if applicable.
Primary Source Verification (if applicable): Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) to be obtained within 3 years if not already earned
Education
Bachelors degree required)
Masters Degree (preferred)
Work Experience
2 years of work experience in healthcare quality safety or process improvement; or a licensed patient care professional (RN Respiratory Therapist Physical Therapist etc. with 2 years of direct patient care experience and demonstrated knowledge of patient safety practices. (required)
Roper St. Francis Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer.
Many of our opportunities reward* your hard work with:
- Comprehensive affordable medical dental and vision plans
- Prescription drug coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life insurance w/AD&D
- Employer contributions to retirement savings plan when eligible
- Paid time off
- Educational Assistance
- And much more
*Benefits offerings vary according to employment status.
Department:
SS Quality Patient Safety Roper St Francis HealthcareIt is our policy to abide by all Federal and State laws as well as the requirements of 41 CFR 601.4(a) 60300.5(a) and 60741.5(a). Accordingly all applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age genetic information or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact The Talent Acquisition Team at .
Employment Type
Full-Time
