Dallah Hospital Looking for Patient Safety Specialist at Saudi , Riyadh Full Time

Role Purpose

This position is responsible for the development, implementation, coordination and monitoring hospital wide patient safety & risk management program. Patient Safety & Risk Specialist manage any risk that affect the safety of the patient and/or staff or even might damage the profitability of the hospital (e.g. risk from claims, or health and safety risk).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Serves as an expert resource to departments in specified areas of responsibility.
2. Identify problems that impact on delivery of quality patient care.
3. The Patient Safety & Risk Specialist has responsibility for planning and directing the DH-N Risk management program. Responsibilities include.
4. Assists in the formulation/revision of patient safety & risk management program, related policy and procedures of DH-N.
5. Participates in designated hospital committees conducting patient safety & risk management activities.
6. Receive and organize data from risk identification sources in summary form for review by QI manager, and the chairman quality & patient safety committee on quarterly basis. Share information with others, as necessary.
7. Report and discuss adverse events or trends regarding potential risk management/loss prevention and control issues with the QI manager, take appropriate action and report result.
8. Report and monitor high risk and invasive procedures hospital wide.
9. Assist in the facilitation and completion of the investigation of a sentinel event, ensuring that findings are submitted in a timely manner, address the root causes of the sentinel event, and that an appropriate action is identified and implemented, as directed, by the QI manager.
10. Plans, co-ordinates and assists in all education needs for DH-N staff related to the patient safety program.
11. Work closely with the QI managar and other head of departments in implement the patient safaty program, monitor, and improve patient care procedures regarding patient safaty, and share findings with the management for correction.
12. Monitors incident reports in the system and route the incidents for review to concerned departments.
13. Maintains incident report system with timely closing and analyzing data for trending.
14. Collects up-to-date hospital wide indicators, and conducts follow up and updates as necessary.
15. Monitors and records the performance of committees e.g. Blood usage, Drug usage, infection control, surgical case, CPR and Morbidity and Mortality.
16. Coordinates and monitors compliance with CBAHI accreditation of Hospital Standards in assigned areas / chapters.
17. Assists QI Manager with clinical cases for further review and action by the professional staff, Department Heads, as appropriate and coordinates and documents the review process.
18. Participate in monitoring the effectiveness of QI / PI activities.
19. Prepares and submits special studies / indicators of the department.
20. Performs any other duties within the range of his/her competence, as directed by the QI & Risk Manager.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, Nursing or Allied Healthcare.
• Master’s Degree / MBA
• Works before in Hospital Accreditation, CBAHI, JCI .