Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Florida - Nemours

Nemours Children's Health is seeking a Regional Quality and Safety Officer to join our team in Orlando, Florida. The Nemours Children's Health, Regional Quality and Safety Officer will be responsible for promoting the vision for quality and safety, a culture of excellence with a core focus on safety, as well as timely, equitable, efficient, effective, patient, and associate centered care delivery. The RQSO is an inspiring and influential leader who is a systems thinker, collaborative and can partner from executive leadership to the front line to assess and align resources, role model and maintain psychological safety within a larger effort to develop a culture of transparency, trust, learning and fair accountability (also known as just culture). This position is a 50/50 mix of clinical and administrative responsibilities.

The RQSO will report directly to the regional Chief of the Medical Staff/Chief Medical Officer and work in tandem with the enterprise chief quality and safety officer and Delaware Valley (DV) RQSO to further the mission and vision of Nemours Children's Health, including systemness within the quality and safety department. The RQSO will principally lead the daily management and functions of our patient safety, quality and infection prevention teams as well as partnerships with legal-risk management, physician groups, nursing leadership and nursing practice, continuous improvement, clinical pathways, health equity, patient experience and employee health and wellness.

Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in a healthcare related field: examples include Medicine (MD), Pharmacy (PharmD), Nursing (PhD, or ARNP).
• Florida licensure in primary based field of specialty required
• Advanced degree or certification(s) in Quality and Safety: Master's degree, CPPS, CPHQ, as an example is strongly preferred.
• Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Lean Six Sigma (Yellow, Green, Black) strongly preferred
• Minimum of 3-5 years of related experience. Director or lead of quality and safety efforts and team members in a health care system or hospital. Operational leadership experience preferred.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized, multi-site pediatric healthcare system built upon a centralized, efficient and collaborative infrastructure committed to improving the health of all children. The mission of Nemours is to improve the health and health care of children by seeking new approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood diseases, and to educate the next generation of leaders in children's health.

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida is the newest addition to the Nemours integrated healthcare system. Our 130-bed pediatric hospital also features the area's only 24-hour Emergency Department designed just for kids as well as outpatient pediatric clinics including several specialties previously unavailable in the region. A hospital designed by families for families, Nemours Children's Hospital blends the healing power of nature with the latest in healthcare innovation to deliver world-class care to the children of Central Florida and beyond. In keeping with our goal of bringing Nemours care into the communities we serve; we also provide specialty outpatient care in several clinics located throughout the region.