Patient Safety Manager - Benefit Eligible Part Time!

Carolinas Medical Center; United States; Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 91,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

One remote day per week

Benefits Eligible

Job summary

Carolinas Medical Center is seeking a part-time Director of Patient Safety to lead safety programs, partner with senior leaders and frontline staff, and drive improvements through data-driven approaches. The role offers 20 hours per week with flexible hours and one remote day.

Key responsibilities include leading the High Reliability Unit, conducting root-cause analyses, coordinating across departments, and educating staff on safety and reliability. CPPS within 12 months is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Administration, Nursing or related field.
• CPPS certification within 12 months if not required by department leader.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates implementation of the site’s patient safety program with leadership and front-line tools (daily huddle, just culture, safety coach programs).
• Leads the High Reliability Unit program, trains safety coaches, and launches projects to address local safety issues.
• Coordinates safety efforts across site departments to align with corporate safety culture and strategic plan.
• Communicates with site executives about serious safety events and program status.
• Ensures timely investigations of serious safety events and conducts root cause analysis.
• Identifies corrective actions to reduce risk with system implications.
• Participates in selection and development of patient safety team members.
• Reviews safety events and analyzes data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with medical education to support CLER compliance and safety training.
• Provides education on safety and reliability to teams and physicians.

Skills

Patient safety

Problem solving

Data analysis

MS Office

Change management

Communication

Leadership

Presentation skills

Team leadership

Time management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Administration/Nursing or related field

Tools

Epic software

Origami software

Job description

Department: 10122 Enterprise Corporate - Patient Safety

Status: Part time

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Hou rs Per Week: 20

Schedule Details/Additional Information: Could this be the moment to take the next step toward the work-life balance you've been looking for?

Join a mission-driven team dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care. In this highly visible leadership role, you'll champion patient safety programs, partner with senior leaders and frontline caregivers, leverage data to drive improvements, and help shape a culture where quality and safety are at the forefront of every patient experience.

Flexible hours to fill 20 hours per week with one day remote.

Need to be available for daily huddle, currently at 8:30 am.

Pay Range: $44.15 - $66.25

Major Responsibilities

• Effectively facilitates implementation of site's patient safety program including leadership and front line tools that promote reliability. These include but are not limited to daily huddle, safety recognition, just culture, safety coach programs, physician champion programs among others.
• Leads the High Reliability Unit program at their home site, facilitating selection and training of safety coaches, leads coach training, ensuring training of all associates within the unit, launch of projects to solve local safety issues, and ensures a strong sustainment program is in place.
• Coordinates safety efforts though site-based departments to ensure alignment of Advocate Aurora's culture of high reliability and progress related to implementation of the patient safety strategic plan.
• Aligns efforts with leaders from all departments, clinical and non-clinical, including the medical staff.Communicates and presents regularly to site executive teams around the occurrence of serious safety events, and status of the site safety program.
• Ensures the timely investigation of all serious safety events by conducting root cause analysis and use of other investigative tools.
• Identifies and oversees implementation of corrective actions to reduce risk in the organization, specifically identifying those that have system implications for risk reduction.
• Participates in the selection, training and development of patient safety team members within their scope of responsibility.
• Reviews safety events entered daily into the reporting system, analyzes patient safety data on a regular basis to identify strengths, opportunities for improvement, trends and actionable items to advance site culture.
• Collaborates with site's medical education leaders to participate in leading a site-based patient safety program for residents and medical student to ensure successful compliance with the Clinical Learning Environment Regulations (CLER) issued by the national organization for graduate medical education.
• Regularly provides education to team members and physicians at all levels of the organization regarding safety and reliability.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required

Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) designation issued by the Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) needs to be obtained within 12 months unless department leader has determined it is not required.

Education Required

Bachelor's Degree in Health Care Administration, Nursing or related field

Experience Required

Typically requires 7 years of experience in experience in the delivery of clinical care in nursing, allied health, or a health related field.

2+ years experience in work related to safety, quality, or risk management.

Preferred

• Epic software
• Origami software

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required

• Awareness of key topics in the field of patient safety and reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and analyze procedure and process changes.
• Familiarity with data collection, display, analysis and utilization to drive change.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite
• Demonstrates self-directed, results-oriented and creative approach to organizational change.
• Communication skills sufficient to interact with all levels of associates and medical staff, front line through senior executives and the board.
• Demonstrates ability to lead others through influence.
• Effective presentation skills in small group settings.
• Experienced in leading teams.
• Exceptional time ma