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Regional Quality and Safety Officer -Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida

Regional Quality and Safety Officer -Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida

Nemours Children\'s HealthFL, United States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Regional Quality and Safety Officer to join our team in Orlando, Florida. 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).

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 Delaware Valley (DV) 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).
  • Florida 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.