Director Quality and Patient Safety

Director of Quality Patient Safety

The Director of Quality Patient Safety is responsible for leading clinical quality and patient safety efforts for Hunterdon Health System. The position oversees a team of clinicians who evaluate clinical quality, identify opportunities for improvement, and support individuals and committees charged with implementing and tracking improvement actions. Primary position responsibilities include assuming responsibility for clinical outcomes across the health system, implementing a physician quality improvement evaluation system, assessing and articulating vulnerabilities of operations to prevent errors, collaborating with key stakeholders to advance quality and patient safety, actively participating in key quality and safety committees, leading comprehensive root cause analyses, overseeing incident reporting processes, assuring conformance to practice standards, overseeing mandatory and voluntary quality and safety reporting, developing and leading system-wide programs to assess departmental and organizational safety culture, overseeing organizational efforts to provide education on the topics of clinical quality and patient safety, actively participating in regulatory and accreditation visits, demonstrating strong human resources and fiscal management skills, and other duties as assigned.

Minimum education required: Bachelor’s degree in nursing or healthcare related field. Preferred: Master’s degree in nursing or healthcare related field. Minimum years of experience required: Minimum of 3 years nursing or healthcare related clinical experience, minimum 5 years experience in leadership in a hospital or healthcare system. License, registry or certification required: Registered Nurse (RN). Preferred: Certificate and/or advanced specialized training in healthcare quality and patient safety.

Knowledge, skills and/or abilities required: Highly visible and comfortable assessing and articulating vulnerabilities of operations to prevent error, excellent data analytics and reasoning skills, attentive to detail with a high level of accuracy, exercise sound judgment and strong organizational and project management skills, ability to present and report information to all levels of the organization, strong leadership skills that emphasize collaboration and positive relationships, excellent verbal and written communication skills, including excellent listening skills and presentation skills to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively across a wide range of audiences, resourceful, diplomatic, and professional; delivers outstanding customer service while managing relationships; a solution-focused perspective and work style that supports teamwork. Effectively lead performance improvement teams, adaptable; be able to shift priorities and focus as departmental and/or business demands change, high level of knowledge of regulatory agencies and activities, proven workforce management skills, proficient in all MS Office and Google applications.