Safety Specialist

At Children’s Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.

Children’s Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children. We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers. Our reputation draws patients and families from around the country.

We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country. If you want to work for an organization that makes a difference for children and families, and encourages you to be at your best every day, please apply today.

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Job Summary
Provides leadership in clinical practice, facilitates safety education, and promotes a culture of safety for patients, clients, families, and team members throughout the organization. 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.
Essential Functions

• 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 ensuring 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 serve as a resource for current patient safety information to hospital and medical staff.

• 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.

Legacy Essential Functions

• Responsible for understanding and integrating knowledge of human factors into designing safer systems of care.

• Serves as an expert resource to the Chief Patient Safety Officer, the Chief Quality Officer, and the Director of Safety.

• Acts as a facilitator for safety programs, meetings, and teams.

• Uses quality improvement and safety science methodologies and tools to facilitate improvements of systems and processes.

• Conducts safety education and training programs for hospital and medical staff.

• Coordinates with stakeholders in the development of safety performance measures and/or specific measures that will demonstrate the desired improvement.

• Maintains data integrity and ensure data sources are consistent.

• Analyzes data, identify trends and collaborate with others to take action on quality issues.

Education
Bachelor's Degree in nursing, health care administration, or other related field preferred or relevant experience
Experience

• 3 years nursing and/or health care experience required

• 1+ years One year 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. required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 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.

Required for All Jobs

• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be requested in the performance of this job.

• Employment is at-will. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise.

This is a hybrid work mode and requires local proximity to the Milwaukee area.

Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees. We treat everyone with dignity, respect, and fairness. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by the law.

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