Director of Risk Management

Acadia Healthcare; Danville (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Acadia Healthcare in Danville, PA seeks a Director of Risk Management to provide strategic leadership for risk activities across the facility. You will identify risks, drive safety initiatives, ensure regulatory compliance, and implement measures to reduce harm, liability, and organizational loss.

The role requires guiding investigations, educating staff, and coordinating with safety committees to improve the safety culture and incident reporting processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, risk management, business, finance, or related field.
• Two+ years in a risk management role with supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with CARF, DEA, Joint Commission, or CMS surveys as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Implement a robust risk management program across the facility.
• Collaborate with corporate risk management and Legal for investigations.
• Lead investigations and assess liability and risk to prevent harm and loss.
• Develop systems to support patient safety and incident reporting culture.
• Coordinate with leadership to ensure regulatory compliance with laws and policies.
• Identify high-risk areas and provide staff training on risk mitigation.
• Review complaints with Patient Advocate to identify exposures.

Skills

Risk assessment

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Incident reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

CMS/JCAHO survey knowledge

Job description

Make a Meaningful Impact on Patient and Workplace Safety.

As the Director of Risk Management, you will provide strategic leadership for all risk management activities across our facility. This role is responsible for proactively identifying risks, driving safety initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and implementing effective measures to reduce potential harm, liability, and organizational loss.

Essential Functions

• Implement a robust risk management program throughout the facility.
• Collaborate and consult with the corporate risk management department.
• Lead Investigations and analyze actual and potential risks in the facility. Collaborate with the Legal team to assess liability and probability of legal action for potential notification. Implement, educate, and encourage incident reporting per policy throughout the facility.
• Develop and implement infrastructures and systems that support patient safety.
• Promote a culture of safety by encouraging incident reporting.
• Collaborate with employees to streamline the incident reporting process making it more effective and efficient.
• Collaborate with facility leadership and all departments to monitor and promote compliance with the organization's policies, procedures, state and federal laws, and regulatory agencies
• Responsible for identifying high-risk areas that could cause harm to persons receiving services, visitors, and employees.
• Provide staff development, and training related to identifying, reporting, mitigating, and minimizing risk.
• Collaborate with Patient Advocate to review complaints and grievances to identify potential exposures.
• Coordinate with facility leadership to establish and implement a Safe Catch Program.
• Collaborate with QAPI disciplines to complete a Root Cause Analysis for specified events.
• Establish and lead a Safety Committee that identifies and develops measurable safety initiatives based on facility data that improve the safety culture.
• Serve as a resource and consultant for risk management activities, performance improvement, policy/procedure development, and compliance initiatives.

Other Functions

• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a clinical healthcare, risk management, business, finance, or a related field required. Master's degree in health information management, nursing, or related field preferred.
• Two or more years’ experience in a risk management position required.
• One or more years of supervisory experience preferred.
• Experience with CARF, DEA, Joint Commission, or CMS surveys, as required by service line(s) supported.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

• CPHRM Preferred.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility.

Additional Regulatory Requirements

While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the requirements of the job, management reserves the right to add or remove duties from particular jobs when circumstances, e.g. emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technological developments dictate. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.
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