Risk and Safety Specialist– Quality

7 days ago


Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Southlake Health Full time
Risk and Safety Specialist – Quality & Risk

The risk and patient safety specialist reports directly to the Manager of Quality and Risk, working alongside a larger team to advance safety, reduce harm, and improve patient outcomes. The risk and patient safety specialist will have two key areas of focus: Advancing Patient Safety and Reducing Harm through risk mitigation.

Patient Safety within this role requires the incumbent to partner in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of patient safety activities, including the development of an organizational patient safety plan, advancing a Just Culture at Southlake, implementing harm reduction measures, and investigation through standard methodologies (e.g., Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, Hierarchy of Interventional Effectiveness, Common Cause Analysis) to prevent future harm. This role will also require the incumbent to provide education on patient safety incidents and partner with clinical programs, leaders, and physicians to embed patient safety activities within patient care.

At the corporate level, the incumbent will leverage their expert knowledge and skills in risk management (e.g., Risk Assessment Checklists, Harm events), accreditation, and quality improvement to reduce harm and assist in better patient outcomes. At the program level, the incumbent will facilitate the integration of accreditation standards into practice, conduct incident reviews, complete root cause analysis, and design improved systems for tracking and evaluating areas of vulnerability.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care

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