Quality and Patient Safety Specialist
3 days ago
The Quality Patient Safety Specialist will be required to:
- Facilitate and coordinate various patient safety and quality initiatives, corporate quality improvement projects and other strategic priorities
- Support the development of quality indicators and standards to assess the quality of care provided
- Oversee administration of the CAMH incident reporting system (RL Datix)
- Utilize clinical knowledge, skill and judgment to identify patient safety themes/trends through daily review and analysis of incident reports
- Follow-up on patient safety events and Good Catch/Near Misses reported via the incident reporting system, and facilitate the incident analysis process for patient safety events
- Collaborate with clinical teams in proactively identifying potential patient safety and quality priorities, and facilitate problem-solving in consultation with appropriate team members/stakeholders
- Use clinical competencies and frameworks to implement tools and methods that advance safety and quality (e.g. Root Cause Analysis, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Lean, etc.)
- Support and encourage incident reporting throughout the organization focusing on ensuring a ‘Just Culture’ framework
- Serve as a quality and patient safety resource to all program/services/departments
- Develop curriculum, provide education and deliver ongoing training to staff on quality improvement and patient safety methodologies
- Collaborate with healthcare teams to implement and support quality/patient safety improvement initiatives.
**Job Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare-related field required
- 3-5 years of clinical experience
- Registration with a health professional regulatory college would be an asset
- Experience in patient safety, risk or quality improvement preferred
- Formal training and/or certification in patient safety would be an asset
- Proven education and facilitation skills, ability to train and motivate staff; effectively leading improvement projects and process redesign
- Exceptional interpersonal skills (developing and maintaining positive relationships, communicating clearly and effectively with people at all levels of the organization, working with others to identify, define and solve problems)
- Strong analytic abilities (including problem recognition and problem solving)
- Experience with MS Office (i.e. PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, etc.), RLDatix ©, data analysis, data manipulation, statistics and report generation
- Experience preparing detailed reports, publications and presentations
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