Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Delaware

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Regional Quality and Safety Officer to join our team in Wilmington, Delaware. The Nemours Children’s Health, Regional Quality and Safety Officer will be responsible for promoting the vision for quality and safety, a culture of excellence with a core focus on safety, as well as timely, equitable, efficient, effective, patient, and associate centered care delivery. The RQSO is an inspiring and influential leader who is a systems thinker, collaborative and can partner from executive leadership to the front line to assess and align resources, role model and maintain psychological safety within a larger effort to develop a culture of transparency, trust, learning and fair accountability (also known as just culture). This position is a 50/50 mix of clinical and administrative responsibilities. 

The RQSO will report directly to the regional Chief of the Medical Staff/Chief Medical Officer and work in tandem with the enterprise chief quality and safety officer and work closely with the FL RQSO to further the mission and vision of Nemours Children’s Health, including systemness within the quality and safety department. The RQSO will principally lead the daily management and functions of our patient safety, quality and infection prevention teams as well as partnerships with legal-risk management, physician groups, nursing leadership and nursing practice, continuous improvement, clinical pathways, health equity, patient experience and employee health and wellness. 

Qualifications: 

• An advanced degree in a healthcare related field: examples include Medicine (MD), Pharmacy (PharmD), Nursing (PhD, or ARNP). 
• Delaware licensure in primary based field of specialty required 
• Advanced degree or certification(s) in Quality and Safety: Master’s degree, CPPS, CPHQ, as an example is strongly preferred. 
• Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Lean Six Sigma (Yellow, Green, Black)  strongly preferred 
• Minimum of 3-5 years of related experience. Director or lead of quality and safety efforts and team members in a health care system or hospital. Operational leadership experience preferred. 

About Nemours

As one of the nation’s leading pediatric health care systems, Nemours is committed to providing all children with their best chance to grow up healthy. We offer integrated, family-centered care to more than 300,000 children each year in our pediatric hospitals, specialty clinics, primary care practices, and school-based health centers in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware is a 194-bed freestanding tertiary children’s hospital that provides innovative care for children in the Delaware Valley and beyond. Nemours Children’s Hospital – Delaware is located in suburban Wilmington, Delaware. Wilmington is a medium-sized city which offers an affordable lifestyle convenient to major locations on the East Coast, including easy drives to the Delaware and New Jersey beaches, Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Our physicians are on faculty at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. We work closely with a large pediatric residency program, which also includes medicine-pediatric, pediatric-rehabilitative medicine, and pediatric-neurology residents, along with Sidney Kimmel Medical College students.

Nemours (www.nemours.org) is an open and welcoming place to work, and values diversity in all its forms. Additionally, Nemours aspires to have its workforce and providers reflect the rich diversity of the communities we serve. Candidates of diverse backgrounds, bilingual and multi-lingual applicants, and those committed to working with diverse populations and conversant in multicultural values, are strongly encouraged to apply. Associates are encouraged to join Associate Resource Groups as members or allies to support colleagues of diverse identities and lived experiences. The Nemours Anti-Racism Statement is available at https://www.nemours.org/about/anti-racism-statement.html

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