Patient Safety Specialist (NP, RN, PT, OT)

Johns Hopkins Hospital; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 58,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Johns Hopkins Hospital seeks a Patient Safety Specialist to lead safety initiatives across Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, blending clinical insight with system-wide safety leadership. This hybrid, in-person/remote role focuses on reducing harm and improving patient outcomes through proactive and reactive safety work.

The ideal candidate has a master’s degree with 5+ years of clinical experience, including leadership in CUSP or equivalent, and familiarity with Lean methodologies to drive

Qualifications

• Master's degree or active matriculation in a Master’s program, degree completed within 18 months of hire.
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience; at least 2 years leadership in CUSP or similar methodologies, and/or program/project management.
• Experience in performance improvement and/or team facilitation.
• Experience in dealing with health care operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross‑disciplinary safety initiatives.
• Rapidly assess safety events, facilitate root cause and systems analyses, and translate findings into actionable interventions.
• Build relationships with frontline teams to understand workflows, coach improvement efforts, and support staff during and after safety events.
• Use data, human factors principles, and quality methods (CUSP, Lean) to prioritize risks and drive measurable change.
• Promote high reliability practices and a just culture that empowers staff to speak up and continuously improve.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical insight

Cross‑disciplinary collaboration

Data analysis

Communication

Education

Master's degree

Tools

CUSP

Lean

Job description

Join Johns Hopkins Hospital as our Patient Safety Specialist for our Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine teams — a pivotal, high-impact role where your leadership and clinical insight will directly shape safer care for those patients.

Why this role matters

• Serve as the multidisciplinary safety lead for our Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine teams, working at the intersection of frontline care and system-wide improvement.
• Partner closely with nurses, physicians, pharmacists, operations leaders and other key stakeholders to identify, analyze and mitigate patient safety risks.
• Drive both proactive and reactive improvement efforts: uncover latent system vulnerabilities, support frontline staff through critical events, and implement sustainable solutions that reduce harm and improve outcomes.
• Act as the trusted, visible safety champion across these departments — coordinating service-wide involvement, aligning unit-based expertise with system-focused strategies, and advancing a culture of high reliability and just culture.

What You’ll Do

• Lead cross-disciplinary safety initiatives.
• Rapidly assess safety events, facilitate root cause and systems analyses, and translate findings into actionable, measurable interventions.
• Build strong relationships with frontline teams to understand workflows, coach improvement efforts, and support staff during and after safety events.
• Use data, human factors principles, and quality methods (CUSP, Lean) to prioritize risks and drive measurable change.
• Promote and operationalize high reliability practices and a just culture that empowers staff to speak up and continuously improve.

Who We’re Looking For

• A collaborative communicator and natural convener who can build trust across disciplines and lead change from concept through implementation.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and mature — able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced clinical environment.
• Comfortable blending clinical insight with systems thinking to design practical, enduring safety solutions.
• Clinician with previous procedural and or critical care experience highly preferred.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience with patient safety science, high reliability principles, just culture, and CUSP

Requirements

• Minimum of a Master's degree or active matriculation in a Master’s degree program; degree must be completed within 18 months of hire
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience; with at least 2 years of leadership participation in Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) or similar methodologies, and/or program/project management.
• Experience in performance improvement and/or team facilitation preferred.
• Experience in dealing with health care operations preferred.

Shift:

This is a hybrid position working in-person, on-campus 3-4 days/week, and working remotely 1-2 days/week, Monday-Friday, 8 hour days

Salary Range:

Minimum 42.33/hour - Maximum 69.88/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

The Hospital reserves the right to modify employee schedules as needed.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.