Clinical Risk Management Specialist

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The Risk Management Specialist oversees the event management system for the Health System-Kansas City Division. The assistant director manages and maintains the electronic event management system. Participate in the development, implementation, and education of event management policies. Serve as a primary contact for the event management system. Onboard new leaders to the event management system. This position is also responsible for ensuring event management data is available to leaders to assist in reducing risk and quality improvement activities. As a member of the clinical risk management team, the risk management specialist is engaged in day-to-day risk management operations, including risk mitigation, investigations, and responding to safety events. The Risk Management Specialist is a member of the Clinical Risk Management department.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• 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.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 3 or more years Three (3) years of experience in risk management, paralegal services, claims settlement work or clinical nursing required.

Required Language Skills

• English - Literacy requirements (read, write and speak English)

Knowledge Requirements

• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Must have strong knowledge base of report writing.
• Experience with online database management.
• Travel to off-site health system locations throughout the state of Kansas and Missouri.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.