Director of Patient Safety & High-Reliability Initiatives

Temple-Health; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Temple Health is seeking a Director of Patient Safety to provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s patient safety program and system-wide efforts to reduce preventable harm. This role leads design, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of patient safety strategies and harm-prevention initiatives.

Working with executive leadership and clinical teams, the director uses data to guide priorities and strengthen outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, healthcare administration, public health or related field required.
• Master's degree in nursing, healthcare administration or related field preferred.
• 1 year in a leadership role within a healthcare setting or leading teams required.
• 5 years of progressive experience in patient safety, healthcare quality, risk management or related field required.
• Experience with patient safety event-reporting systems, serious event review, root cause analysis, and performance-improvement methods required.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s patient safety program.
• Design, implement, evaluate and continuously improve patient safety strategies.
• Lead serious safety event analyses, organizational learning and harm-prevention initiatives.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, medical staff, nursing, clinical and quality teams to identify system vulnerabilities and guide improvements.
• Develop and mentor the Patient Safety staff; report to the AVP, Patient Safety and Risk Management.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing or related

Master's Degree (Preferred)

Tools

Event reporting systems

Root cause analysis

Job description

Temple Health is seeking a Director of Patient Safety to provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization’s patient safety program and system-wide efforts to reduce preventable harm. This role leads design, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of patient safety strategies and harm-prevention initiatives.

Working with executive leadership and clinical teams, the director uses data to guide priorities and strengthen outcomes.