Cigna
Clinical Safety Program Advisor - Remote
United States Work at Home
Sponsorship not specified$96k-$159kDetected 2 days ago
Project ManagementProcess ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringFiber Optics
About the role
- Clinical Safety Program Advisor Cigna Healthcare is seeking a Clinical Safety Program Advisor to help advance patient safety across care and health services delivery environments.
- For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 95,500 - 159,100 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
- We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence.
Responsibilities
- Translate clinical safety priorities into project charters, integrated workplans, timelines, governance routines, and executive-ready updates that support on-time delivery.
- Partner with business unit leaders and operational owners to embed safety requirements into care delivery models, workflows, and patient-facing processes.
- Support proactive risk mitigation by reviewing governance report outs, performance summaries, safety trends, and action plans to identify emerging risks and recommended next steps.
- Maintain leadership-ready dashboards, logs, and status reports that connect safety program delivery to outcomes, including adverse events, near misses, and corrective action plans.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and change support by preparing clear communications, resolving dependencies, and escalating complex questions to appropriate clinical safety, quality, legal, or compliance partners.
- Experience supporting large clinical safety, quality, or clinical risk initiatives, including intake/reporting, triage, investigation support, mitigation tracking, and follow-up to closure.
- Strong analytical, communication, facilitation, collaboration, and change support skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
- You will partner with clinical, operational, quality, legal, and compliance stakeholders to turn safety priorities into clear plans, measurable actions, and sustainable outcomes.
Requirements
- Must have subsequent state licensure, as applicable.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in clinical safety, patient safety, quality, clinical risk management, or a combination of related experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience applying project management/change management best practices across cross-functional teams or multiple workstreams.
- Experience utilizing clinical background while facilitating structured safety investigations or proactive risk assessments, such as Root Cause Analysis, Common Cause Analysis, Apparent Cause Analysis, or FMEA.
- Working knowledge of performance improvement methods and systems-based approaches to care delivery, such as Lean or Six Sigma concepts.
Nice to have
- Patient safety, quality, or project management certification, such as CPPS, CPHQ, PMP, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Experience coaching or mentoring project team members and driving consistent execution practices across multidisciplinary teams.
- About The Cigna Group
- Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives.
- Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
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- The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible.
- Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment.
Compensation
- For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 95,500 - 159,100 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
Benefits
- Cigna Healthcare is seeking a Clinical Safety Program Advisor to help advance patient safety across care and health services delivery environments.
- In this role, you will support complex, cross-functional safety initiatives that reduce preventable harm, improve reliability, and strengthen a culture of transparency, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate structured safety reviews leveraging healthcare experience to synthesize themes, document decisions, and track corrective and preventive actions through closure and sustained effectiveness.
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