Director of Public Safety & Emergency Management, Fairfield Region

Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management

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Since our founding by the Daughters of Charity in 1903, St. Vincent's has been dedicated to helping patients in Bridgeport and throughout Fairfield County. St. Vincent's Medical Center, with more than 3,200 associates, is a 473-bed community teaching hospital including a 76-bed inpatient psychiatric facility in Westport, a large multispecialty provider group and St. Vincent's Special Needs Services. St. Vincent's Medical Center is committed to exceptional health care for all with special attention to persons living in poverty and those who are most vulnerable. It is the first hospital in Fairfield County to be integrated into the Hartford HealthCare network and is the system's second largest hospital.

Position Summary :

The Director of Public Safety and Emergency Management will ensure high-quality, cost-effective services are delivered to support the department's goals and objectives as well as the region's strategic plan. The Director will focus on Public Safety and Emergency Management core initiatives and capabilities that include : program management, 24 / 7 operations and response structure, emergency plans, emergency notification, physical security, education, training and emergency exercises, workplace violence prevention, and other enhanced protection programs.

Key Accountabilities :

• Ensures a safe and secure environment for patients, colleagues and the community. Provides opportunities for engagement and management during risk assessments, goal setting, improvement priorities, monitoring progress and further evaluation of the effectiveness of the department
• Ensures the Public Safety and Emergency Management strategy protects regional assets and simultaneously balances and ensures a consumer driven focus related to patients, support service colleagues, clinicians and physicians. Implement education, training, tools and resources
• Provides routine updates, important and timely information to all constituent groups. Establishes and maintains open communication with colleagues, and other department leaders to foster trust, understanding and respect
• Develops business cases, seeks approval and funding to address safety and emergency projects focusing on improvements in systems, people strength, processes, and technology. All designed to provide a safe and secure environment in an ever-changing environment
• Serves as the leader for protection, preparedness, response and resiliency activities. These activities may include workplace violence, threats, security events, emergencies, or catastrophic disasters
• Provides training in partnership with HHC Public Safety Training by delivering training programs that empower our community to be safer and more secure. Training includes but not limited to : CPI, GHO, ALICE, OC, Guard Card Instructor, etc.
• Develops and ensures regulatory compliance with all department policies, processes, guidelines and standards in addition to CMS, Joint Commission, CT DPH, among others. Participate and provide updates including compliance data during Environment of Care, Safety and other related committee meetings
• Develops and prepares an annual operating budget and ensures department operates within allocated funds. Maintain records and statistics for administrative and regulatory purposes
• Ensures colleague engagement and action plans are achieved successfully; establishes performance expectations; coaches, develops and evaluates performance to enable colleagues to be successful in contributing to the achievement of individual and department objectives, and to ensure high quality services are delivered
• Develops and maintains internal and external relationships that may include local, state, federal and other public and private partners in law enforcement and emergency management

Qualifications :

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