Colleague Safety Specialist @St Peters Hospital - FT Days
About The Position
The Clinical Safety Specialist (RN) serves as the clinical subject matter expert within the Colleague Safety Department, focusing on preventing healthcare-specific colleague injuries and reducing OSHA-recordable events. The specialist partners with nursing leadership, clinical operations, infection prevention, physical medicine and rehabilitation, security, behavioral health, workers compensation, and colleague safety staff to identify injury trends, conduct clinical safety assessments, develop interventions, and educate frontline staff. This hybrid position requires onsite presence at assigned facilities at least three days per week for injury follow-up, observational audits, rounding, and leader consultation. The role also involves frequent rounding in patient care environments and travel within St. Peters Health Partner locations. The specialist serves as a trusted consultant to clinical leaders and contributes to injury prevention committees and programs.
Requirements
- Active Registered Nurse license.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- At least 5 years of clinical nursing experience.
- Acute care experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with data analytics, dashboard development, and trend reporting.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including public speaking and meeting facilitation.
- Strong interpersonal, motivational, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Broad-based knowledge of OSHA and other hospital-related regulatory compliance requirements.
- Presentation, teamwork, negotiation, crucial-conversation, and change-influence skills, including the ability to influence without direct authority.
Nice To Haves
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN); Nursing Informatics and Nursing Education are particularly encouraged.
- Experience in employee safety, quality, risk, occupational health, infection prevention, nursing leadership, clinical education, or performance improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead healthcare-specific injury prevention initiatives within the department.
- Review sharps injuries, bloodborne pathogen exposures, patient handling injuries, and other clinical injury events.
- Follow up on injuries with leaders and colleagues to identify contributing factors and prevention opportunities.
- Conduct clinical safety rounding, observational audits, and safety assessments in acute care settings, while also supporting medical groups and continuing care.
- Develop and support targeted strategies to reduce OSHA-recordable injuries.
- Partner with operational leaders to develop action plans and monitor their effectiveness.
- Analyze injury, OSHA, workers compensation, and exposure data to identify trends and emerging risks.
- Develop dashboards, scorecards, heat maps, and executive reports.
- Present findings to leadership teams, committees, and organizational stakeholders.
- Support injury gatekeeping processes and accurate event classification.
- Use advanced Excel functions and reporting tools to support data-informed decision-making.
- Provide bedside coaching and real-time education to nursing staff and clinical teams.
- Develop and deliver educational content on sharps prevention, injury prevention, safe work practices, bloodborne pathogen exposure prevention, and regulatory requirements.
- Create competency materials, tip sheets, presentations, and learning resources.
- Consult with nurse managers, directors, educators, and clinical leaders.
- Participate in and/or chair Workplace Violence, SPHM, and Sharps Prevention committees.
- Provide injury analysis and recommendations to support committee objectives.
- Monitor implementation and effectiveness of injury prevention initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
