Manager Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Southern Colorado Region

SUMMARY

The Manager Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness is responsible for overseeing patient safety and clinical effectiveness operations. Manages team members in reducing preventable harm, promoting continuous learning through event reviews, using continuous improvement methodology to advance clinical improvement projects, developing clinical pathways, and supporting high reliability principles at all levels of the organization. Partners with the System Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Departments in addition to local clinical and administrative teams and leaders to ensure success on local and system-wide initiatives.

Additional Information
Department Name: Patient Safety
Job Status: Full time, 40 hours per week.
Shift: Monday to Friday, Day shift.

Duties & Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
No direct patient care

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.
1. Partners with leadership to oversee the ongoing development, coordination, and implementation of the organization's strategy and program; communicates mission, vision, progress and accomplishments across the organization; effectively engages partners and stakeholders and successfully navigates the political landscape.
2. Manages operations for a portfolio of clinical improvement projects and pathways, ensuring that projects adhere to organizational objectives, internal best practices, and external requirements.
3. Assigns and reviews work, provides work instruction (OTJ or formal training) and develops team members. Evaluates performance of team members, providing continuous feedback. Manages discipline and performance issues; hires and fires team members. Identifies resource needs and develops recommendations for meeting needs.
4. Effectively prioritizes and resources work of patient safety and clinical effectiveness team members; evaluates and coaches for technical proficiency and arranges for coaching or education when needed.
5. Facilitates organizational education and awareness of safety science, high reliability principles, human factors engineering, and continuous improvement tools and methodology.
6. Oversees incident reporting system to ensure effective use, robust reporting, timely response to issues reported, and reliable identification of harm, risk, and near misses.
7. Leads and facilitates event learning activities. Develops actionable recommendations from event reviews and monitors the implementation of corrective actions. Monitors timely completion of action plans and reports progress to hospital leadership.
8. Ensures adherence to state and federal safety regulatory requirements, healthcare accreditation standards, and all other applicable regulations that govern the use and disclosure of patient, financial or other patient safety and quality improvement information.
9. Manages, coordinates, and implements activities for the participation and success in external collaboratives and value-based programs, ensuring timely and accurate reporting as well as consistent active participation.
10. Continuously monitors data to measure, communicate, and improve project and program performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, healthcare, or related field.
    
    
• Experience
  • Five (5) years of progressive experience in healthcare, patient safety, risk, and/or quality, including relevant process improvement experience.
    
• Equivalency
  • A Master's Degree in Nursing, healthcare, or related field may substitute for two (2) years of the required experience.
    
• Licenses & Certifications
  • Registered Nurse (RN) licensure required for BSN.
    

Salary Information
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $109,636.42 to $164,454.63

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.