Patient Safety Specialist (RFT 1.0 FTE)

Reporting to the Director, Quality and Patient Safety, the Patient Safety Specialist will work collaboratively with the quality and patient safety team, senior leadership, directors, managers, front-line staff and various internal and external stakeholders across all of the Royal’s campuses to serve as the lead for clinical risk management. This includes leadership for the implementation of local to organization-wide system changes, policies and other initiatives to promote patient safety and mitigate risk.

This position provides support and facilitation to senior operational and medical leaders and their teams for immediate and ongoing response to patient safety items in the organization. The positions plays a key role in promoting and continuing to develop a strong patient safety program throughout the organization. The position also assists in developing leaders in quality and patient safety at The Royal in all programs and services.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Patient Safety Program

• Promotes and supports a safety culture that empowers and engages staff in quality and patient safety.
• Ensures The Royal’s patient safety activities are in alignment with regulatory requirements including but not limited to Accreditation Canada requirements, and provides education or lead actions to respond to recommendations arising from Accreditation surveys.
• Coordinates and promotes organization-wide adoption and dissemination of leading evidence-informed practices in patient safety.
• Contributes to continuous quality improvement by leading quality improvement initiatives related to patient safety.
• Supports and encourage incident reporting throughout the organization focusing on ensuring a ‘Just Culture’ framework.
• Develops and supports the implementation of policies and procedures to support patient safety.
• Collaborates with healthcare teams to implement and support quality / patient safety improvement initiatives.
• Advances learnings from incident analysis and process changes made to promote patient safety outcomes in all clinical programs.
• Plans and implements the annual ROHCG Patient Safety Week in alignment with the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) theme and activities.
• Leads the annual prospective analysis, from idea to change implementation.
• Liaises with Quality & Patient Safety peers and colleagues in the region e.g. Health Care Quality Network.

Patient Safety Event Management and Oversight

Clinical Risk Management & Patient Safety Science Best Practice Implementation

Clinical Risk Management Consultation & Capacity Building

Leadership & Advisement

Other

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

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