Senior Patient Safety Specialist

Job Description

Promotes the safe delivery of hospital healthcare through coordination and support of system-wide patient safety program. Serves as a resource for patient safety activities and facilitates implementation of process improvements that promote a culture of safety to reduce variation and other factors that contribute to adverse events and outcomes.

Job Responsibility

• Increases identification/reporting of adverse events, potential and actual harm events and related outcomes
• Obtains/reviews pertinent clinical information from sources such as medical records, audits, rounds, meetings and utilizes databases for indicators/ measures as applicable.
• Analyzes and interprets data related to clinical quality improvement and patient safety and provides information to team members and leaders as applicable. Makes recommendations for process improvement.
• Participates in providing proactive and reactive patient safety and performance improvement data
• Identifies opportunities for improvement of care to provide a safe care environment for patients.
• Collaborates with practitioners and care delivery sites to implement patient safety improvement programs along with monitoring and measuring their performance.
• Prepares presentations and educates team members regarding patient safety activities/results.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Joint Commission and Department of Health requirements and supporting information system applications as it relates to patient safety as applicable.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.
• Current License to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State required, plus specialized certifications as preferred.
• 3-5 years of clinical experience with progressive work experience in clinical specialization, quality management or patient safety required.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).