Clinical Risk Management Specialist

Clinical Risk Management Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 3 or more years of experience in risk management, paralegal services, claims settlement work or clinical nursing required.
• English – Literacy requirements (read, write and speak English)
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Strong knowledge base of report writing.
• Experience with online database management.

Responsibilities

• Participate in day-to-day risk management operations, including risk mitigation, investigations, and responding to safety events.
• Analyzes individual occurrences and trends and patterns for opportunities to prevent future patient injury.
• Works closely with unit and department leaders to ensure timely response to event reports and timely standard of care assignments.
• Ensure event management data is available to leaders to assist in reducing risk and quality improvement activities.
• Provide root cause analysis support to risk managers.
• Informs the clinical risk management team and health system leadership when high risk trends are identified.
• Ensures event reports are investigated and closed in a timely manner.
• Recommends changes in policies, practice, and procedures to prevent patient injury.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and education of event management policies.
• Communicates timely with the claims and insurance team when potentially compensable events are identified.
• Interviews employees, patient, patient family members, and others who are involved with an event, when necessary.
• Performs special projects that involve data gathering, analysis, preparation of reports, development of recommendations and presentations.
• Identifies educational opportunities based on event reporting trends.
• Onboard new leaders and staff to the event management system.
• Collaborates effectively with team members and other disciplines.
• Able to skillfully communicate and partner with others via email, telephone and in person.
• Uses time efficiently and effectively. Able to develop and meet project time frames.
• Ability to work effectively from home and onsite.
• Participate in taking risk management call.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Preferred Qualifications

• Willingness to travel to off-site health system locations throughout the state of Kansas and Missouri.