cwi
Safety Specialist
Milwaukee, WI
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
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About the role
- Provides leadership in clinical practice, facilitates safety education, and promotes a culture of safety for patients, clients, families, and team members throughout the organization.
- Serves as a safety leader, collaborating with front line staff to ensure competent and safe care to children and families.
- Participates in safety related clinical improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Employment is at-will. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise.
- Acts as a change agent to lead, facilitate and support staff to create and sustain a culture of high reliability that focuses on elimination of preventable harm.
- Facilitates and coaches teams regarding risk assessment and analysis and assists them to develop action plans to prevent errors from future occurrences.
- Analyzes data, identify trends and collaborate with others to take action on quality issues.
- Supports the intake and classification of events into the reporting system and performs cause analysis of safety events in the organization.
- Reviews safety events and develops appropriate tools and training so clinical program leadership learns how to conduct these reviews and can partner effectively with patient safety efforts.
- Collaborates closely with the Risk Management Department in the review of serious safety events.
Requirements
- Required for All Jobs
- Responsible for understanding and integrating knowledge of human factors into designing safer systems of care.
Skills
- Uses quality improvement and safety science methodologies and tools to facilitate improvements of systems and processes.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Compensation
- Organizes an annual and on-going assessment of safety risks by working closely with the organizational leadership and works with the team to develop annual patient safety goals.
Benefits
- Children's Wisconsin is a nationally recognized health system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children.
- We provide primary care, specialty care, urgent care, emergency care, community health services, foster and adoption services, child and family counseling, child advocacy services and family resource centers.
- We offer a wide variety of rewarding career opportunities and are seeking individuals dedicated to helping us achieve our vision of the healthiest kids in the country.
- Serves as a resource for employees and medical staff for quality and patient safety improvement initiatives.
- Consults with identified hospital departments or medical staff sections to educate others on the QI process and regulatory standards.
Company info
- We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.
- At Children's Wisconsin, we believe kids deserve the best.
Equal opportunity
- Children's Wisconsin is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer.
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