Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator

**GENERAL** **Description**: - Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator **Competition #**: - IERHA 866/25 **Posting Date**: - 04/24/2025 **Status**: - Active **Type**: - External **DESCRIPTION** **The Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority** Our Vision We will be recognized as a trusted health-care partner, providing sustainable, accessible, integrated, evidence-based care to improve health status and outcomes in all of our communities and achieve health equity across the region. Our Mission We work in partnership with all stakeholders, contributing to the health and well-being of our communities, by providing timely access to reliable care in a culturally safe manner that respects diversity. Our Values Always with compassion, Success in collaboration, Accountability in everything we do, Acting with integrity, Respectful of each other **Collaboration | Accessibility | Respect | Excellence | Innovation | Quality Customer Service** **Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator** **Coor Quality & Patient Safety_06** **Closing Date**: - 05/01/2025 **Facility / Site**: - To Be Determined **Posting Type**: **Position Type**: - Full-Time **Hours of Work**: - Days **Term Dates**: - 04/30/2025 - 02/28/2026 **FTE**: - 1 **Union Group**: - Non-Union **Wage / Salary**: - To commensurate with experience & qualifications **Position Summary**:The Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator has primary responsibility to plan, implement, coordinate and evaluate an integrated Patient Safety Strategy for the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority ("IERHA"), with an emphasis on implementation of best practices for reducing preventable injuries and outcomes to patients. The Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator has secondary responsibility to support the Quality Program, including quality improvement initiatives, accreditation processes and audit functions. Reporting to the Regional Director, Quality, Risk & Patient Safety, leadership activities with a focus on learning, improvement and the promotion of a culture of safety will be required. This includes prospective and retrospective analysis, monitoring of patient safety and quality indicators and reporting activities as required. The position involves working closely with the Quality & Risk team, regional managers and staff, physicians, patients and the public, as well as with external patient safety partners. The position of Quality & Patient Safety Coordinator functions in a manner consistent with, and supports the Mission, Vision and Values of the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority. **Qualifications**: - Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing from a recognized University required. - Current registration with College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba required. - Additional education in the area of Patient Safety and Quality an asset. - Other combinations of education and experience may be considered. - Knowledge of root cause analysis (“RCA”), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (“FMEA”), Critical Incident (“CI”) investigation methodologies and current patient safety initiatives required. - Minimum three (3) years of clinical/ management related experience required. - Computer literacy; intermediate MS Office suite of programs. - Integrity and discretion in dealing with sensitive and confidential matters. - Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team setting at all levels of the organization. - Strong organization, decision-making, analytical and problem solving skills. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to work independently and as part of a team. - Physical and mental health to meet the demands of the position. - Valid Manitoba driver’s license and use of vehicle required. - Completes and maintains a satisfactory pre-employment security check. - Satisfactory employment record. **As a condition of employment, all successful applicants will be required to provide a satisfactory criminal record check (with vulnerable sector screening), adult abuse and child abuse registry checks prior to commencing employment.** Given the cultural diversity of our region, the ability to communicate in more than one language would be considered an asset. Proficiency of both official languages is essential for target and designated bilingual positions. All health care workers are required to be immunized as a condition of employment in accordance with the Interlake-Eastern RHA Policy (GA-13-P-110 Required Immunizations for Health Care Workers). The Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority delivers health-care services on First Nation Treaty Territories 1, 2, 3 and 5 and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. We respect that First Nations treaties were made on these territories, acknowledge harms and mistakes, and we dedicate ourselves to collaborate in partnership with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in the spirit of reconciliation.