Job title |
Patient Safety and Quality Coordinator |
Purpose |
The Patient Safety & Quality Coordinator has the primary responsibilities for: ensuring investigation of error and harm when they occur, and reviewing compliance with standards; and proactive development, support and promotion of activities to ensure the provision of safe and reliable health care. |
Key responsibilities |
This position requires highly developed analytical and project management skills and an ability to work without direct supervision, reflecting the level of experience and expertise required. |
1. Leadership in patient safety & clinical quality |
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Participate as a member of the team, to create the conditions, time and priority for staff to work on improvements in patient safety. |
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Actively promote safe, reliable, person centered and effective healthcare, an open and just culture and achievement of service and corporate objectives relating to patient safety and clinical quality. |
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Contribute as a core member of relevant patient safety & quality committees and other key groups which monitor, in a consistent manner, serious preventable adverse events, disclosure and reporting, and root cause analysis (RCA) to identify risk reduction strategies to mitigate or prevent the reoccurrence of same or similar events. |
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Monitor and support systems and processes to ensure that patients and careers are provided with open, honest and improvement-focused information when errors occur. |
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Proactively oversee the analysis, assessment and development of risk mitigation, monitor lessons learned and ensure they are carefully shared throughout the organization. |
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Support operational teams to improve reliability of systems and actively influence service developments as relevant, to reduce risk and improve patient safety. |
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Contribute to the development, monitoring and review of policies and procedures pertaining to patient safety and quality health care. |
2. Incidence management |
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Have primary responsibility for the coordination and monitoring of all incident management processes, and their analysis work whilst ensuring early engagement of staff throughout the process and specifically in developing recommendations as appropriate. |
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Provide expertise in patient safety, clinical quality and improvement methodology to support teams to improve quality and reduce adverse events. |
3. Patient Safety and Clinical Quality Data |
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Work in conjunction with data and business intelligence teams in generating, analyzing, trending and reporting real time patient safety and clinical quality data, and work closely with the operational team in monitoring clinical quality indicators as determined by the facility, service or division. |
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Support and assist staff to develop capability in collection, analysis and utilization of patient safety and clinical quality data. |
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Assist in the development and implementation of indicators and evaluation mechanisms for patient safety and clinical quality to benchmark, measure and report system performance and improvement |
4. Patient Safety & Clinical Quality Initiatives |
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Work closely with the Community Health leadership team, Managers, facility leadership teams and Manager Clinical Governance to ensure that organization-wide patient safety and clinical quality initiatives are rolled out effectively and risk reduction strategies implemented wherever appropriate while engaging stakeholders in the process. |
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Provide support in identification of clinical improvement opportunities using available data to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe clinical care. |
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Provide support for implementation of Clinical Practice Improvement projects, including guidance on tools and materials available. |
5. Communication, Education, Training and Coaching |
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Engage with clinicians on a day to day basis to build engagement and capability in patient safety and clinical quality. |
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With the support of the Clinical Governance team, work jointly with relevant quality and safety leaders to develop educational tools to build capacity and capability for patient safety in the service over time and support the development and delivery of patient safety education and learning. |
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Advocate for safety and quality of patient care, and facilitate the bringing of multi-disciplinary teams together to create the conditions for achievement of shared objectives. |
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Provide multifaceted education to staff and management in patient safety and clinical quality processes and systems including IIMS, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Death Review, Clinical Practice Improvement and Open Disclosure. |
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Develop, manage and review tools to assist staff in applying clinical quality improvement methodology, including training programs, education packages, toolkits and information sources, to assist managers and clinical leaders in addressing organizational capacity and staff development needs. |
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Participate in coaching of staff within the service to develop capability in improvement in patient safety and clinical quality. |
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United Kingdom
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Job title |
Quality and Patient Safety Coordinator |
Summary |
The Quality and Patient Safety Coordinator supports the department / program leadership, education, and project management in the designated department / program to improve quality, operational clinical initiatives, promote innovation, and identify / develop best practices for clinical excellence, service excellence, and patient safety. This role will coordinate with others toward process improvements that will support the reduction of clinical errors and other factors that contribute to unintended adverse patient outcomes. The incumbent provides leadership for safety assessments, coordinates the activities of the performance improvement committee, educates other practitioners on system-based causes for medical error, consults with management and staff, and communicates literature-based ideas regarding effective safety and performance improvement strategies to others within the organization. The coordinator operates within standardized procedures and precedents under the supervision of the department director/ program manager. The incumbent shall be subject to generally regulated routines, practices, and procedures and be subject to supervisory control and review. |
Principal accountabilities |
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Monitor clinical process and outcomes and system issues related to quality of patient care in the related discipline/program (i.e., trauma, etc.) |
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Conduct chart reviews and clinical audits for the relevant discipline/program |
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Provide and monitor written communication for performance improvement activities |
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Identify and investigate performance improvement events, opportunities, trends and sentinel events |
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Help outline remedial actions while maintaining confidentiality |
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Participate in performance improvement committees |
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Produce meeting minutes performance improvement committees |
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Provide staff education on performance improvement topics |
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Assist in the development of clinical practice guidelines |
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Assist in data collection |
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Assist in protocol design for accurate data collection, feedback, and analysis |
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Perform other duties as required within the applicable scope of practice and policies |
Knowledge, experience and skills |
Education |
Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Nursing or Allied Health |
Preferred: Master’s Degree in Medicine, Nursing or Allied Health |
Experience |
Minimum: 4 years healthcare experience; 2 years in the relevant discipline/program (i.e., trauma) |
Preferred: 5+ years healthcare experience; 2 years in the relevant discipline/program (i.e., trauma) |
Computer Skills |
Microsoft Office skills, including MS-Outlook. Competent database management skills |
Key competencies |
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Teamwork |
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Problem Solving |
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Excellent Communication Skills |
Problem solving/Decision making |
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Ability to think in situations requiring a significant degree of judgment to analyze, evaluate, and arrive at conclusions |
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Use freedom to think within generally defined policies, procedures, and goals under the guidance of the Director of the relevant department/program |
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United States of America
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Job title |
Patient Safety Coordinator |
Primarily responsible |
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Analyzing reported incident information, providing feedback to members |
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Assisting them in identifying and addressing areas of improvement |
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Serves as a member resource on quality and patient safety matters |
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Assists members in the development of their patient safety evaluation systems |
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Develops and presents reports, educational, and resource materials |
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Assists with website maintenance |
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Identifies industry best practices and shares those with member hospitals |
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Assists with quality and patient safety program development |
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Coordinates & facilitates member group discussion |
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Tracks CHPSO’s strategic goal measures |
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Performs all assignments in a professional, accurate and timely manner |
Education, skills and talents |
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Bachelor’s degree in clinical practice (RN preferred) with minimum of 5 years clinical experience and knowledge of the complexity of hospital processes and in working within the hospital environment |
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Experience in event investigation, causal analysis, and human factor engineering |
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Data analysis & quality experience; knowledge in lean, six sigma or other process improvement techniques desired |
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Excellent ability to effectively manage projects and initiatives and to provide anticipated outcomes |
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Demonstrated ability to foster teamwork and bring together diverse groups together in a collaborative and effective manner |
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Ability to work independently as well as part of a team |
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to develop and present reports and educational materials |