Chief Pediatric Quality & Safety Executive

UCSF Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 245,000 - 471,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals seeks an Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety to lead a unified pediatric risk, safety, and quality program across BCH sites. The role reports to BCH leadership and partners with UCSF Health to drive equitable, high-value care.

Responsibilities include developing enterprise quality strategy, guiding transformation, and embedding safety culture through analytics, education, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience guiding interdisciplinary teams in complex healthcare environments and academic teaching institutions.
• Proven track record in quality improvement, patient safety, harm-reduction initiatives, and high-reliability transformation.
• Expertise in safety event review, categorization, and improvement implementation.
• Training in improvement/implementation science (Lean, Six Sigma, IHI Model for Improvement).

Responsibilities

• Lead BCH’s integrated Quality & Safety function and set systemwide priorities.
• Oversee domains including clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, patient safety event review, and harm reduction.
• Direct annual Q&S strategic goalsetting and standardization of pathways and evidence-based practices.
• Chair and co-chair BCH safety and quality committees, providing executive oversight across SF and Oakland campuses.
• Advance systemwide data analytics, real-time dashboards, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Strategic leadership

Education

Medical degree (MD, DO, or equivalent)

Job description

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals seeks an Executive Medical Director of Quality & Safety to lead a unified pediatric risk, safety, and quality program across BCH sites. The role reports to BCH leadership and partners with UCSF Health to drive equitable, high-value care.

Responsibilities include developing enterprise quality strategy, guiding transformation, and embedding safety culture through analytics, education, and cross‑functional collaboration.