Behavioral Health Safety Manager

Provides leadership support of the strategic plan, overall safety goals, and workplace safety. Partners to lead and coordinate safety initiatives, provide safety monitoring, and reporting. Collaborates in developing innovative measures to analyze and report on BH performance regarding quality and safety. Leads a culture and climate of safety within the BH service line and drives organizational behavioral changes.

Schedule: Full-time, Beneifts Eligible

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• Leads and collaborates to assess, develop, and implement project plans, system processes that mitigate safety and workplace risks, and annual and long-range safety goals, objectives, and metrics consistent with the BHP strategic plan.
• Directs and monitors the advancement of policies, programs, and operational models that promote safety. Develops comprehensive, strategic, and tactical plans to achieve system-level goal progress.
• Serves as an authoritative resource on safety by maintaining knowledge of behavioral health and safety through continuous professional development. Serves on various committees, collaboratives, and safety huddles pertaining to employee and patient safety.
• Evaluates information obtained from risk assessments and develops actions with BH management. Re-evaluates data post training and on an ongoing basis.
• Reviews and analyzes safety data, investigates patient incidents, and incidents of employee injury.
• Maintains and facilitates compliance with all safety regulations and ensures that regulated industry standards with all applicable accrediting and regulatory bodies.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Education Requirement:

• Master’s or doctoral degrees in Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work, Counseling or other healthcare management or health care related discipline, required.
• Certifications: Certified Professional Healthcare Quality Professional or Certified Safety Professional, preferred.

Skills:

• Provides expertise in performance improvement frameworks and methods, such as IHI model for Improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and is able to apply successfully.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact at all levels, describe hospital processes, policies, and procedures to outside surveyors, and explain complex data sets.
• Ability to partner with leaders across all disciplines to promote a non-punitive, high reliability culture.
• Supports a diverse multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of public employment, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination.
• Provides knowledge and experience in patient safety, employee safety, quality improvement including process improvement, regulatory environment, external agencies, healthcare delivery, and public reporting in a leading academic medical center.

Experience:

• 6 years of experience in a health care setting, required. Pediatric health care or behavioral health experience, preferred.
• 5 years of leadership experience, required. Performance Management (PM) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), preferred.
• Experience in clinical quality and safety performance measurement, including measure definition, data sources, and benchmarks.
• Experience related to OSHA, CMS, Joint Commission, State Licensing, and other regulatory standards within a health care environment, required.

The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individual so classified, nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet