Patient Safety Specialist

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Full time

We currently have a **Regular Full Time **opportunity for a **Patient Safety Specialist** in our **Quality & Patient Safety **department at **Sunnybrook.**

**Hours of Work**:Weekdays; Days; 8hrs; As per schedule

**Summary of Duties**

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has a vacancy for a Patient Safety Specialist within the Department of Quality & Patient Safety, focused on developing and implementing hospital wide initiatives that improve patient and staff safety, and patient safety culture. Specifically, key functions of this role include the analysis of patient safety incident data, collaboration with clinical teams to develop systems to reduce the potential for errors and offer expert advice in mitigating further risk of error. This role will report to the Manager of Quality & Patient Safety.

**Specific Responsibilities include**:

- Analyse patient safety incident data/trends (together with Risk Management) to identify areas of greatest risk, and collaborate with key stakeholders to design and implement effective system improvements
- Lead strategic patient safety priority projects for the organization in collaboration with teams
- Provide expert consultation to various clinical groups regarding issues related to patient safety, using key patient safety principles (Incident Analysis / Root Cause Analysis, Human Factors, Systems Approach, FMEA, etc)
- Develop patient safety policies and foster a culture of safety in consultation with others
- Lead and participate in the Patient Safety Leadership committee that enables collaborative dialogue, decision-making regarding patient safety trends, and required actions
- Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of corporate patient safety standards and Required Organizational Practices
- Deliver education related to patient safety using multiple modalities (e.g., web-based learning; didactic sessions; simulation exercises, etc.)
- Provide patient safety expertise to key hospital committees, where required

**Qualifications/Skills**:

- Degree in health-related field, Quality & Patient Safety or Health Administration/Policy preferred (Masters considered an asset)
- Regulated Health Professional with current Regulatory College Registration in good standing preferred
- **Incident analysis and patient safety training or certification required**:

- Project Management training / experience preferred
- Minimum 3 years patient safety improvement experience in a clinical environment required
- Experience in managing broad (e.g. hospital-wide) improvement projects
- Demonstrated change management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven organizational, problem solving, time management, meeting facilitation and critical thinking abilities
- Self-directed and strong collaborative skills
- Experience with adult learning an asset
- Experience with MS office required
- Experience with databases an asset
- Experience preparing manuscripts for peer-review an asset

Human Resources
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodation for disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please indicate this in your cover letter.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is strongly committed to inclusion and diversity within its community and welcomes all applicants including but not limited to: visible minorities, all religions and ethnicities, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and all others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Sunnybrook, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada (e.g., two doses of a two-dose vaccine series, or one dose of a single-dose vaccine series); **AND** have received the final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at least 14 days ago. Medical exemptions or any other kind of requested exemption based upon the Hospital’s obligations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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