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General Information

Work Location: West Hills, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm PST
Posted Date
03/06/2025
Salary Range: $92600 - 202200 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
22663

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

As the Senior Patient Safety Specialist, you will focus on facilitating patient safety and quality improvements initiatives, ensuring systematic implantation of practices designed to reduce errors and enhance patient outcomes. You will:

  • Lead and support patient safety initiatives aimed at reducing errors and improving outcomes
  • Serve as a lead on patient safety operational activities, project and initiatives
  • Lead and participate on projects of large scope and/or significant complexity or risk
  • Train and orient new staff members of the Patient Safety team
  • Facilitate the adoption of high-reliability practices across the organization
  • Review safety events, identify trends in near-misses and actual events, and use Lean methodologies to collaborate with teams on identifying contributing factors.
  • Serve as a resource for all departments regarding patient safety issues
  • Educate and encourage teams to report actual and near-miss events through a non-punitive reporting system
  • Conduct root cause analysis in collaboration with health system leadership and relevant teams
  • Facilitate Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) teams
  • Support the organization’s Good-Catch Recognition Program
  • Support the organization’s Zero Harm Recognition Program

UCLA Health salary range for this title code is $92,600-202,200/annually. Please note that the department's target pay range is $145,000 - $165,000/annually.

Job Qualifications

We're seeking a detail-oriented, self-directed individual with: 

  • A bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
  • A Master’s degree, highly desired
  • CPHQ or CPPS, preferred
  • Two or more years of Quality/Patient Safety experience or three or more years’ experience in direct patient experience
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, planning, and decision-making skills
  • Ability to facilitate and lead change to drive improvement
  • Strong, confident, and reassuring leadership qualities

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.