Skip to main content

Advertise with us

  • Post jobs
  • Search for candidates
  • Recruiting Physicians Today

This job has expired

Associate Chief Safety Officer

Employer
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Location
Cleveland, Ohio
Posted Date
May 19, 2021
Reference
646095

View more

Job Details

The Quality and Patient Safety Institute at Cleveland Clinic is seeking a physician to fill the role of Associate Chief Safety Officer.

This individual will be responsible for connecting Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management into a high performing operating model. This leader will be highly integrated with leaders in Continuous Improvement, the Office of Patient Experience, Quality and Regulatory Affairs. This role will execute on improving our culture of safety and promoting our high reliability efforts to drive zero harm for patients and caregivers, while supporting our just culture. This role will also serve as the medical lead for the Cleveland Clinic Alliance for Patient and Caregiver Safety Patent Safety Organization and will enhance error prevention strategy, the effective use of cause analysis and the Safety Event Reporting System.

This role will report to the Chief Safety and Quality Officer.

Key responsibilities include:
  • Primary oversight of caregiver and patient safety
  • Provide leadership for the clinical risk, environmental health and safety, patient safety and biosafety areas

Qualifications:
  • Experience leading multidisciplinary, cross-department teams.
  • In depth understanding of high reliability principles and methods.
  • Experience developing a high reliability education and engagement.
  • Certified Professional in Patient Safety preferred. Required within the first year of appointment.
  • 5 years patient care experience
  • Minimum of 5 years of healthcare leadership experience in patient safety or a related field required.
  • Operational experience in accreditation/regulatory affairs, performance improvement, risk management and/or patient safety in a healthcare environment required.
  • Clinical leadership and advanced management training preferred.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare operations is preferred.
  • Patient Safety Committee Chairperson experience preferred

A successful candidate must have an MD or DO credential, be board-certified and have a demonstrated track record achieving results while leading multidisciplinary improvement efforts across multiple departments. This role will be 0.6 FTE with the remaining 0.4 FTE in their Clinical Department of specialty.

Company

Cleveland Clinic is one of the world's largest and busiest health centers. Patients come to Cleveland Clinic from all over the world. We offer advanced treatment for all illnesses and disorders of the body. We enjoy a strong reputation for outstanding quality care. U.S News & World Report has declared that we are the number two hospital in the country. In cardiology and cardiac surgery, we lead the nation.

Our Heart Center has been ranked number one in America for 21 years in row in U.S. News and World Report. Cleveland Clinic's Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute and Digestive Disease Institute are ranked very near the top, and our specialties of orthopaedics, otolaryngology, nephrology, neurology/neurological surgery, rheumatology, pulmonary, endocrinology, gynecology, ophthalmology and geriatrics are each among America's ten best in their fields.

Other specialties noted for national excellence include cancer and psychiatry. Cleveland Clinic Children's offers highly specialized pediatric care in a family-centered atmosphere. It has been ranked the best children's hospital in Ohio by Child magazine.

Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 as a not-for-profit group practice, integrating clinical and hospital care with research and physician education. In addition to our Cleveland location, we have Cleveland Clinic Florida, with a unified medical campus in Weston, Florida, offering the full spectrum of care.

Cleveland Clinic has more than 3,000 salaried physicians on staff, representing approximately 120 specialties and subspecialties. In 2015, they provided a total of 6.62 million visits. Patients came to us from across America and from more than 180 nations. We also lead an extensive system of community hospitals in Cleveland called the Cleveland Clinic Hospitals.

This system is made up of Cleveland Clinic and Fairview Hospital, Lutheran Hospital, Marymount Hospital, Euclid Hospital, Hillcrest Hospital, Medina Hospital, South Pointe Hospital, Akron General Hospital and the soon to open Avon Hospital. With 4,450 staffed beds, Cleveland Clinic Hospitals offers broad geographic coverage, a full continuum of care, improved quality and lower cost of care to Northeast Ohio residents.

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert