Patient Safety Specialist

Job Title & Specialty Area: Patient Safety Specialist

Department: Quality Patient Safety

Location: Children's Health- Dallas

Shift: Full-time; Monday through Friday 8a to 5p

Job Type: Onsite

Why Children's Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:
Facilitates cause analysis of actual or near miss events throughout the organization. Provides leadership, education, and mentoring to clinical stakeholders. Assists frontline managers /leaders with planning, developing, implementing coordination and evaluating operation and patient safety activities of the department. Facilitates multidisciplinary teams to achieve measureable and sustainable improvements in process and systems related to patient safety.

Responsibilities:
* Coordinates and facilitates the investigation, review and disposition of patient safety events though interviews, medical record and literature reviews and utilization of appropriate investigative tools.
* Utilizes high level organizational skills to manage projects.
* Serves as an expert in safety science and patient safety processes and outcomes to assist clinical and organizational stakeholders with information to improve patient safety.
* Works, in partnership, with clinical stakeholders; aggregates and analyzes data; identifies opportunities to improve patient safety; identifies trends and patterns related to near miss and actual events; develops conclusions and makes recommendations through data presentations to appropriate committees and/or teams.
* Takes operational responsibility for external survey completion as it relates to Quality and Patient Safety
* Conducts special projects / audits as assigned
* Collaborates with Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance to support necessary processes and documentation of event reviews.
* Services as a super user of various software systems such as, Excel, Power Point, Word, EPIC, Visio; able to design and develop necessary patient safety reports

How You’ll Be Successful:

WORK EXPERIENCE
* At least 7 years Experience in a healthcare or clinical environment Required

EDUCATION
* Bachelors Degree Essential
* Masters Degree Preferred

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS
* Registered Nurse-1N-RN Essential Current Registered Nurse or Respiratory Care Practitioner license to practice in the State of Texas - Time Frame: Upon Hire
* Respiratory Care Practitioner-1A-RCP Essential Current Registered Nurse or Respiratory Care Practitioner license to practice in the State of Texas - Time Frame: Upon Hire
* Certified Professional in Patient Safety-2P-CPPS Essential CPPS - Time Frame: 1 1/2 Years
* Cert Profnl Healthcare Quality-2P-CPHQ Pref CPHQ

A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.

Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You:

· Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.

· 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure

· Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)

· Caregiver Leave

· Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.