Quality & Safety Consultant
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Quality & Safety Consultant at Imagine Pediatrics enhancing patient safety for children with special health care needs. Leading investigations and promoting a culture of safety and reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate patient safety reports using standardized systems of classification.
- Facilitate investigation and action‑planning for events of harm, precursor events, and near misses.
- Conduct Apparent Cause Analyses (SWARM), contribute to and support Root Cause Analyses, and participate in Plan‑Do‑Study‑Act (PDSA) cycles.
- Perform structured event interviews and medical record reviews, ensuring psychological safety for participants during investigations.
- Provide timely, clear summaries and recommendations based on findings.
- Lead or support Failure Mode and Effects Analyses (FMEA) to identify and mitigate risks before harm occurs.
- Conduct gap assessments and design strong, sustainable system‑level actions to address identified vulnerabilities.
- Apply reliable design principles, human factors, checklists, forcing functions, and other safety science practices to improve care processes.
- Partner with clinical stakeholders to implement and monitor process changes.
- Support completion, rollout, and analysis of the Culture of Safety Survey.
- Facilitate data‑driven action planning with leaders based on survey insights.
- Promote harm reporting through a non‑punitive approach and provide feedback acknowledging value in reporting.
- Help foster a just, restorative culture by supporting fair accountability and system‑focused solutions.
- Analyze event data to identify patterns, trends, and emerging risks.
- Generate insights and recommendations for leaders in assigned Centers of Excellence or regions.
- Assist with or perform basic data analysis to monitor safety performance and system outcomes.
- Communicate findings clearly and concisely to internal stakeholders.
- Provide education to clinicians, leaders, and staff on high reliability principles, human‑centered resilience engineering, effective communication, sustaining situational awareness, core patient safety concepts.
- Deliver routine safety training and support organizational Quality & Safety initiatives.
- Serve as a consultant for safety‑related questions, workflows, and improvement projects.
- Collaborate across clinical, operational, and leadership teams to strengthen safe, effective care delivery and workflows.
- Help design, implement, and evaluate improvement projects aimed at reducing preventable harm.
- Participate in the Quality & Safety Committee and other workgroups as appropriate.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a clinical or health sciences field (e.g., nursing, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, etc.)
- 3+ years of clinical healthcare experience.
- 1+ year experience in healthcare quality, patient safety, and/or performance improvement.
- Experience with data use, trending, and reporting.
- Experience supporting or leading change initiatives.
- Experience facilitating or participating in patient safety investigations (ACAs/SWARMs, RCAs, case reviews, etc.)
Benefits:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA
- 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
- Employer-paid short and long-term disability
- Life insurance at 1x annual salary
- 20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
- Paid new parent leave
- Additional benefits to be detailed in offer
















