Quality and Safety Senior Specialist -Jefferson

Jefferson Health; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferson Health is seeking a Quality and Safety Senior Specialist in Montgomery County, PA. The role focuses on originating, facilitating, and expediting improvement efforts aligned with quality, safety, and HRO initiatives, using the OnPoint Safety Management System to drive project work.

You will develop and track safety metrics, communicate findings, and coach teams to embed safety principles into clinical operations, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Qualifications

• Experience leading quality and safety improvement projects.
• Knowledge of HRO initiatives and process redesign.
• Ability to develop and track safety/quality metrics.
• Experience with risk assessment methods such as FMECA and Hazop.

Responsibilities

• Lead divisional safety investigations and near-miss reviews.
• Facilitate safety events analysis and root cause investigations.
• Oversee SMS project communication strategies and materials.
• Develop and track SMS metrics and reports for status updates.
• Champion patient safety initiatives and quality improvement projects.
• Collaborate with teams to embed safety principles into operations.

Skills

Project management

Safety science

Risk assessment

Data analysis

Communication

Tools

OnPoint Safety Management System

Job description

Quality and Safety Senior Specialist -Jefferson### Quality and Safety Senior Specialist -JeffersonApply: Montgomery County, PA: Full time: Posted Today: REQ-0038302**Number of Positions In Requisition**1**Job Details**Under the general direction of the Director, Quality & Safety, the Quality & Safety Senior Specialist will originate, facilitate, & expedite improvement efforts and/or education targeted at quality, safety, HRO initiatives and process improvement activities consistent with departmental/organizational goals and objectives.**Job Description**· Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.· Utilizes and Supports the implementation of the OnPoint Safety Management System project management standards, processes, policies, methodologies and tools to: (40% of time)· Conduct divisional reactive safety work (aca, dca, cRCA) and proactive risk assessments (ie FMECA, Hazop analysis)· Facilitates processes and applies safety science principles to identify, review, investigate and analyze, and manage safety events and near misses/great catches.· Oversee SMS related project communication strategies, including verbal and written materials.· Develop and track SMS and related process improvement quality assurance, performance, and usage metrics and prepares printed and electronic reports for communication of the data as part of the project status reporting.· Champions (Lead/Support/provides consultation on) identified initiatives/projects critical to patient safety and quality improvement organizational goals to embed safety principles into clinical operations, facilitated by teams/work groups, assigning performance indicators, reviewing metrics and developing action plans using departmental tools to meet safety/quality system/process redesign and pay for performance goals. (18% of time)· Guides/coaches/mentors to enable others to begin to champion organizational projects. (15% of time)· Utilizes project management, performance improvement, change management, change leadership knowledge, skills, and attitudes to drive improvement efforts in quality and safety.· Utilizes the hospital and/or department software systems and applications to input/retrieve/analyze data appropriate to the overall functioning of the organization.· Regularly presents to share insights developed from data and information analysis. (12% of time)· Performs other related duties as assigned. (5% of time) **Work Shift**Workday Day (United States of America)**Worker Sub Type**Regular**Employee Entity**Albert Einstein Medical Center**Primary Location Address**60 Township Line Road, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States of AmericaNationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.