Head Quality & Risk Management

Fakeeh University Hospital; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Fakeeh University Hospital seeks an experienced leader to oversee organization-wide quality and risk management programs, ensuring regulatory and accreditation compliance across the health care facility. You will champion quality and patient safety as the custodian of standards and performance.

The role requires driving data management, audits, and performance improvement, while mentoring QRM staff and aligning initiatives with national and international guidelines to enhance patient outcomes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Medicine, Healthcare Administration or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Certification in healthcare quality, patient safety or risk management (e.g., CPHQ/CPPS).
• 8–10 years of healthcare quality and risk management experience, including 5 years in a leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Oversees day-to-day oversight and direction of QRM department tasks and activities.
• Manages scheduling, recruitment and evaluation; develops team competencies.
• Leads regulatory and accreditation compliance with local and international standards, incl. JCI.
• Develops and revises hospital policies to reflect regulations and best practices.
• Ensures timely collection, analysis, and interpretation of KPIs; communicates findings.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare/Medicine (or related)

Master's degree

Job description

Oversees the development and implementation of organization wide quality and risk management programs; ensuring full compliance of the Fakeeh Health Care facility with regulatory and accrediting bodies. Champions and acts as the ultimate quality and patient safety custodian.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Provides day-to-day oversight and direction of the Quality and Risk Management Department functional tasks and activities, namely QRM documents management, risk management, data management, audits, reviews and performance improvement activities.
• Manages day-to-day logistics of the QRM department including decisions on work assignments and schedules of members of the department, recruitment and annual evaluation. Responsible for developing skills and competencies of members of the department.
• Regulatory and Accreditation Compliance: Leads and coordinates all activities related to compliance with local and international healthcare regulations and standards. Manages the hospital’s accreditation processes, ensuring adherence to criteria set by accrediting bodies. Provides and enhances quality and safety excellence programs, aligning them with guidance on center of excellence accreditation that meets hospital goals to improve patient outcomes and operational efficiencies.
• Policy Development: Oversees and assists as needed in the process of development and revision of hospital policies and procedures to enhance quality, compliance, and safety. Ensure that all policies reflect current regulations and best practices.
• Data Management: Responsible for identifying suboptimal trends in data collected on regular basis and in bringing variations to the attention of leaders and end users Ensure timely collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data for key performance indicators (KPIs). Has the ultimate responsibility to ensure that collected data are sensible, validated, properly displayed and are shared with involved staff in timely manner.
• Performance Improvement Projects: Leads and manages performance improvement initiatives that focus on enhancing patient safety and quality of care. Utilize different methodologies to drive changes and achieve better outcomes.
• Oversees the development and maintenance of QRM documents.
• Oversees the quality of clinical documentation by analyzing quantitative review data (collected by medical informatics) and qualitative review data (jointly collected with medical and nursing leadership). Addresses suboptimal performance with involved leaders and in assigned committees.
• Safety Campaigns and Awareness activities: Organizes and spearheads safety-related campaigns and observance days to promote a culture of safety within the hospital. Develops educational content and events that engage and inform staff about critical safety issues and best practice.
• Oversees risk management tasks assigned to the risk manager including OVR analysis and interpretation and collaborates in design and development of mitigating plans and programs and oversees the development of relevant policies and procedures related to risk identification, risk management and risk mitigation. Covers the role of quality and risk manager during leaves or absences of the latter.
• Safety Culture: Conducts safety culture surveys and assessments to gauge current practices and areas needing attention. Perform rounds and use tracers to ensure compliance with national and accreditation standards and International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG).
• Implements and assigns training programs, in coordination with the Academic Training Affairs Department within the organization involving all staff and focusing on quality improvement methodologies and tools, risk assessment, policy development, data management and interpretation, just culture, investigation of occurrence and accreditation.
• Attends and actively participates in hospital committees as applicable
• Participates in Leadership Rounds and maintains a database on all feedback and action taken.
• Develops a Quality and Risk management Department orientation and ongoing in-service program in line with the Human Capital Management and the Academic and Training Affairs.
• Participates in the Fakeeh Care Budget process once per year and as per the outline within the policy.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare, Nursing, Medicine, Healthcare Administration or a related field; Master’s degree
• Relevant certification in healthcare quality, patient safety or risk management (e.g., CPHQ/CPPS)
• 8–10 years of healthcare quality and risk management experience, including 5 years in a leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of UAE healthcare regulations and accreditation standards including JCI.
• Proven expertise in clinical audits, incident investigation, RCA, risk assessment, CAPA, KPIs and quality improvement.
• Strong leadership, analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.