Risk and Safety Specialist - Risk Management - FT - Day

Stormont Vail Health•Topeka, KS

About The Position

The Risk and Safety Specialist provides specialized technical, informational and process management support to the Risk Management, Patient Safety, and/or Regulatory/Accreditation programs across Stormont Vail Health. The Risk and Safety Specialist is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks that could impact patient safety, regulatory compliance, and the overall integrity of healthcare operations. This role ensures the organization adheres to legal and ethical standards while promoting a culture of safety and accountability. The Risk and Safety Specialist exercises independent judgement, critical thinking, quantitative and qualitative analytical and technical skills to support the effective evaluation and communication of organizational risk matters.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree In Legal, Business, Risk Management, Emergency Management, healthcare or related field. Five (5) years’ work experience in a related field may be substituted for education.
5 years Work experience in legal, business, risk management, emergency management, healthcare or related field. Bachelor's degree in related field may be substituted for work experience.
2 years Experience in healthcare operators or a related industry field including experience integrating and analyzing large amounts of data /information and presenting that information to various audiences.
Ability to exercise independent judgment and decision-making to provide appropriate responses to customer requests for information or data or assuring appropriate escalation.
Ability to engage customers, service lines, departments and stakeholders to identify data and reporting needs and opportunities on an ongoing basis.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree Preferred
Regulatory/accreditation survey experience, experience handling complex investigations or event evaluations. Preferred
Experience in conducting audits, program evaluations or validation reviews. Preferred
Clinical, Ancillary or Technical expertise pertinent to evaluating risk and recommending strategies to support improvement.
Human factors engineering or Performance Improvement (Lean Six Sigma) or similar background used to analyze/design/redesign workflows or programs.
Certification in paralegal, safety or risk management Preferred

Responsibilities

Serves as the initial screening review to identify incidents that warrant additional review/evaluation, referral for specialized evaluation or to achieve accurate and complete data capture.
Facilitates risk and safety activities including but not limited to regulatory/accreditation tracers, patient safety rounds, site visits, regulatory evaluations, root cause analysis or other group activities following defined standard work to achieve key milestones and program outcomes as assigned.
Evaluate and provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of risk and safety data from a variety of sources including but not limited to incident reports, claims, risk assessment, case reviews, complaints and regulatory findings to identify patterns, trends and serious safety events to support effective prioritization and management of organizational risk.
Collaborate with department and functional leaders as needed to support organizational environment of care plans and processes.
Attends external meetings as assigned including but not limited to committee meetings, serving as an effective representative of risk management and assuring appropriate communication of pertinent information to internal/external audiences.
Drive proactive risk assessment, process integration or process improvement projects to assure that all segments of the SVH enterprise are performing to the highest patient safety standards.
Provide training and education to staff on risk management practices and patient safety and lead efforts to promote a culture of safety and Just Culture principles.
Periodically advises management on relevant matters and provides specific and highly informed recommendations for improvement or resolution of identified risk and/or safety concerns and support patient safety initiatives.
Maintain and update all resource, reference, documentation, response plans or materials associated with risk management and patient safety.
Conduct program and process evaluations to assess effectiveness of existing or proposed plans and organizational needs and make changes to support program effectiveness.
Prepares, maintains and monitors confidential files, including patient safety event, and other Risk/Safety files in accord with Department guidelines and organizational policy.
Work under direct or indirect supervision to gather, compile and evaluate information needed for regulatory/accreditation responses, internal process reviews to assure thorough, accurate and appropriate responses.
Conduct document, medical record and business records audits/rounding/tracers as assigned to develop case summaries, performance audit data, quantitative and qualitative performance data.
Participates in regulatory surveys, inspections, and CMS complaint responses as well as other accreditation duties as needed.