Senior Compliance Specialist

Texas Children's Careers • Houston, TX

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About The Position

We’re looking for an Senior Compliance Specialist, someone who will be responsible for privacy incident investigations, auditing, and monitoring processes. This role is also responsible for all Texas Children's related privacy education and training initiatives. Ensures compliance with Federal and State privacy regulations, Business Associate Agreements, and Texas Children's privacy policies and procedures. Think you've got what it takes? Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Requirements

• High School or GED required
• 9 years’ experience in a regulatory environment including specific experience in project management and audit type work such as planning, supervising, executing and reviewing audits, reviews or investigations
• Extensive knowledge of HIPAA/HITECH, and other federal and state privacy regulations.
• The ability to analyze data, people and situations, determine errors and problems, formulate workable and practical solutions, interact with all levels of Texas Children’s employees, and be able to work in a team environment.
• Ability to prepare and deliver professional presentations to all levels of Texas Children’s employees, management and physicians is required. Must have strong written and oral communication skills as well as strong project management skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work with all levels of management across all function areas.
• Must have strong Microsoft skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• CPC - Cert-Cert Professional Coder
• CCS-P - Cert-CCS-P Physician Based
• RHIA - Cert-Reg Health Inform. Admins
• CCS - Cert-Cert Coding Specialties
• CHC - Certified in Healthcare Compliance
• A bachelors degree may substitute for four years of experience.
• A masters degree may substitute for two years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Conducts and Manages privacy investigations
• Conducts initial screening and timely investigation of privacy matters. This includes data collection, analyses, interviews, and report writing.
• Conducts privacy related training
• Monitors Regulatory Environment; evaluates statutes, regulations, laws to determine applicability to Texas Children’s Privacy Program
• Prioritize Daily Tasks and Escalate Concerns When Necessary
• Demonstrate excellence in conducting investigations and asking critical questions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees