Patient Safety Innovation Coordinator

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Johns Hopkins Medicine, a nonprofit, combines over 125 years of commitment to community care with groundbreaking research, teaching and medical services to patients worldwide. Johns Hopkins Medicine operates six academic and community hospitals, four health care and surgery centers, more than six ambulatory surgery centers and has more than 2.8 million outpatient encounters per year.

What you will do:

The Patient Safety Innovation Coordinator serves as a key leader in advancing a culture of safety and high reliability at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. This role is responsible for expert facilitation of cause analyses (RCA, CCA, ACA, PRA) for high-risk events, ensuring psychological safety, fostering collaboration across all levels of staff, and driving strong systems-based safety action planning. Partnering with clinical leaders and the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) teams, the Innovation Coordinator designs and implements novel strategies to improve patient outcomes, including medication safety initiatives, and promotion of unit-based ownership of safety. The Innovation Coordinator plans, directs, and evaluates hospital-wide patient safety and quality improvement programs. Leveraging evidence-based practices, frontline clinical insights, and design-thinking approaches, this role leads efforts to strengthen reliability, reduce harm, and advance measurable improvements in patient safety and quality improvement across the institution.

What awaits you:

You can enjoy an environment that is continually recognized as one of the best workplaces in the world. In addition to working with some of the best and brightest in the medical field, we offer our employees generous benefits:

• Work-life balance - this is a hybrid position.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 403B Savings Plan w/employer contribution
• Paid Time off & Paid holidays.
• Employee and Dependent Tuition assistance benefits.
• Health and wellness programs and MORE!

What you will bring:

• Minimum of a Master's degree in nursing or other health care related field required. Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt or higher preferred. Training in design thinking, Human Factors, CUSP methodologies or related training is preferred.
• Active clinical licensure in related field.
• Requires a strong clinical background (examples could include nurse, social worker, pharmacist, PA, etc) as demonstrated by a minimum of 10 years of clinical experience and at least 5 years of progressive program/project development and quality improvement experience. Comprehensive patient safety knowledge and experience is required.

Skills Required:

Requires skill and experience in methods of improvement, theories of change, and current concepts of teambuilding. requires a high level of organizational skills to initiate and manage projects, timetables and implementations; advanced interpersonal skills to manage, direct and coordinate the activities of multiple departments, to positively communicate and work with professionals at all levels of the organization; analytical ability to develop and interpret application of best practices, outcome metrics and the like; and excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence and negotiate individual and group decision-making. Strong leadership and management and group facilitation skills. Proficiency in excel, power point and other desktop applications is required.

Salary Range: Minimum 41.70/hour - Maximum 68.85/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility.

In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

JHM prioritizes the health and well-being of every employee. Come be healthy at Hopkins!

Diversity and Inclusion are Johns Hopkins Medicine Core Values. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.