Senior Healthcare Risk Manager (Remote)

Tufts Medicine; Burlington (MA); Remote; USD 101,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Tufts Medicine is seeking a senior risk management professional to develop, implement, and coordinate risk activities across our organization. The role emphasizes identification, assessment, and treatment of risk exposures to minimize patient harm and regulatory risk.

The candidate will lead investigations, risk reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with medical staff, clinical, and administrative teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Regulatory Affairs, Compliance, Nursing, Healthcare Administration or related field.
• Five (5) years of clinical experience or risk management experience.
• Master’s Degree preferred; Professional Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) desirable.
• Seven (7) years of clinical or risk management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Proactively evaluates areas of organizational risk and implements policies that promote patient safety.
• Reviews events involving patient harm and conducts harm analysis of such events.
• Analyzes aggregate adverse event and claims data to identify high-risk activities.
• Compiles risk statistics to support management in reducing incidents and improves loss prevention.
• Leads investigations of adverse outcomes, interviewing staff and reviewing records.
• Initiates safety event huddles and root cause analyses with leaders to design preventive solutions.
• Provides risk management guidance to hospital staff, committees and departments.
• Coordinates with general counsel and claims to review data and identify high-risk activities.
• Works with outside counsel to facilitate document requests and testimony as needed.
• Participates in regional and national risk management activities and programs.

Skills

Risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Incident reporting

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law/Regulatory Affairs/Compliance/Nursing/Healthcare Administration

Master's Degree

Job description

Tufts Medicine is seeking a senior risk management professional to develop, implement, and coordinate risk activities across our organization. The role emphasizes identification, assessment, and treatment of risk exposures to minimize patient harm and regulatory risk.

The candidate will lead investigations, risk reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with medical staff, clinical, and administrative teams.