Safety Quality Specialist

Nemours Children's Health in Orlando Florida is seeking a FULL-TIME Safety & Quality Specialist (SQS) a local/departmental leader who provides oversight for patient safety and quality initiatives that improve patient outcomes within our PICU.

The Safety & Quality Specialist (SQS) is a local/departmental leader who provides oversight for patient safety and quality initiatives that improve patient outcomes within a defined patient care area. The SQS utilizes safety and improvement framework to build, sustain, and spread improvement. The SQS effectively partners with nursing and medical leadership to determine quality and safety priorities that are in alignment with organizational goals. This role inspires leaders within the clinical area to fully engage in improvements that achieve high outcomes, works to ensure there are zero events of preventable harm, and acquires, validates, interprets, and transforms data into actionable information. Will work to develop skills and expertise in patient safety, quality improvement, change management, high reliability, and project management. 

This role demands strong leadership, relationship building skills, and the ability to influence multidisciplinary stakeholders and leadership partners and on critical and sometimes contentious change. The SQS is an advocate for patient safety efforts and quality improvement within the organization. They should be contributing to and cultivating a psychologically safe patient safety culture.

Position Responsibilities

• Assists with development, implementation, evaluation, and sustainment of a unit-based safety and quality program: In collaboration with nursing and medical leadership, develops and communicates safety/quality goals and metrics relevant to the clinical area
• Acts as a coach, teacher, and mentor for projects, teams and to leadership on effective approaches to leading unit and hospital-wide initiatives: Fluent in improvement and safety methodology and tools. Serves as a resource for teams 
• Investigates unit-based near miss and harmful events: Conducts ACAs when needed and assures timely, accurate completion of reviews
• Supports unit level structures and processes related to safety & quality initiatives: Develops/facilitates meetings and identifies safety/quality trends
• Collaborates with the Safety team, Quality team, Harm Prevention Program Manager, Infection Prevention & Control team, Nursing Professional Development team, Regulatory Readiness Manager and other subject matter experts across the organization to support the Quality & Safety Program
• Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time by management

Position Requirements 

• Bachelor's Degree Nursing or related field required, master's degree Nursing or related field (MHA, MBA, or other related field) preferred
• Licensed as a Registered Nurse, Respiratory Therapist or other related licensure required upon hire; 
• CPHQ and LSSGB within 2 years of hire
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in an acute health care setting required. One (1) year of professional quality or safety related experience required. Pediatric experience preferred.

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive