Director of Risk Management

Acadia Healthcare; Peachtree Corners (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Acadia Healthcare is seeking a Director of Risk Management to provide strategic leadership for risk initiatives across a facility. The role focuses on proactive risk identification, safety program development, and ensuring regulatory compliance to reduce liability and organizational loss.

Responsibilities include leading investigations, promoting incident reporting, and collaborating with the Legal, QAPI, and executive teams to implement effective risk controls.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Implement a robust risk management program throughout the facility.
• Lead investigations and analyze risks with the Legal team to assess liability and action.
• Establish and lead a Safety Committee and coordinate incident reporting.
• Collaborate with facility leadership to monitor compliance with policies, procedures, laws, and regulatory agencies.
• Identify high-risk areas and provide staff development and training on risk management.

Skills

Risk management

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Investigations

Incident reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare/related field

Master's degree in health information management/nursing/related field

Tools

CPHRM

CPR certification

Job description

Overview

Make a Meaningful Impact on Patient and Workplace Safety.

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

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.

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.

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