Manager, Patient Safety

Piedmont Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Experience the advantages of real career change Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams you’ll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. You’ll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today and help you plan for the future. This position will be based at our corporate office in Atlantic Station, but will require some travel to our clinic locations

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Engineering, Healthcare Administration or a related field Required
5 years of hospital experience in safety, quality or performance/operations improvement Required
If an RN, current License in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNLC Multistate License Required

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Healthcare or Business Administration Preferred
Certified Professional in Project Management, Health Care Quality or other related certifications Preferred
Registered Nurse license Preferred
Training in crew resource management/high reliability training Preferred

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for driving and continuously improving the culture of patient safety at multiple PHC locations.
This person advances PHC's patient safety program (including physician safety coaches and senior provider coaches) as appropriate.
Additionally, this position promotes and educates staff on the appropriate use of error prevention tools, safety huddles, safety rounds and just culture.
This role ensures an environment of openness and a culture of speaking up.
In addition to supporting a safety culture, the manager is responsible for ensuring compliance with laboratory and radiology safe practices, and maintaining the clinical competency program for Piedmont employed physician office practice clinical staff.