Quality and Safety Senior Specialist -Jefferson

Health Partners Plans; Pennsylvania; Presencial; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Flexible spending accounts

Retirement plans

Tuition assistance

Voluntary benefits

Resumo da vaga

Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania seeks a Quality & Safety Senior Specialist to originate and facilitate improvement efforts aligned with HRO and patient safety goals. You will lead initiatives, coordinate with clinical teams, and use the OnPoint Safety Management System to drive risk reduction and performance improvement.

The role emphasizes data analysis, reporting, coaching teams, and cross-functional collaboration to embed safety into daily operations while meeting organizational objectives.

Qualificações

• Experience applying safety management principles to healthcare settings.
• Ability to conduct proactive risk assessments and incident investigations.
• Develops metrics and reports for safety performance.
• Champions safety initiatives across clinical operations.

Responsabilidades

• Interacts with coworkers, visitors, and other staff.
• Lead or support SMS project communications.
• Develop and track SMS and process-improvement metrics.
• Coach teams to champion safety initiatives.
• Regularly present insights from data analysis.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Conhecimentos

Safety management

Quality improvement

Project management

Data analysis

Educational programs

Ferramentas

OnPoint SMS

Descrição da vaga

Number of Positions In Requisition1

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 Address60 Township Line Road, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally 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.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps ), have access