What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Safety Specialist (On-Site) position at UCLA Health Careers?
As the Patient Safety Specialist, you will be responsible for helping us achieve our goal of becoming a transformative, high-reliability organization with an uncompromising focus on patient safety and outcomes. You will do this by facilitating patient safety and quality improvement initiatives and coordinating the implementation of practices designed to reduce error and improve patient outcomes. This will involve fostering a non-punitive culture of continuous learning and improvement by reviewing safety events, identifying trends in near-miss and actual events, and using Lean methodologies to identify relevant trends. You will:
· Serve as an educational resource for all departments on issues of patient safety
· Encourage reporting of actual and near miss events
· Conduct root cause analyses
· Assure that corrective actions are implemented and monitored in a timely manner
· Facilitate Failure Mode Effects Analysis Teams
· Support the organization’s good-catch recognition program
Salary Range: $83,800 - $179,400/annually
Note: This posted position is 1 of 3 positions available for hire. All applicants will apply through this requisition and if selected will be hired into one of the available positions.
Salary : $1,000 - $1,000,000
