Risk Management Specialist

Position Summary / Career Interest:

• Participate in day-to-day risk management operations, including risk mitigation, investigations, and responding to safety events.
• Monitor the event reporting system for safety trends.
• Work closely with risk managers to ensure timely unit and department leader 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.
• Inform the clinical risk management team and health system leadership when high risk trends are identified.
• Prepare weekly event data analysis reports, run requested reports, and monitor event management system activity.
• Participate in the development, implementation, and education of event management policies and ensure seamless use of the event reporting system.
• Communicate timely with claims and insurance team when potentially compensable events are identified.
• Performs special projects that involve data gathering, analysis, preparation of reports, development of recommendations and presentations.
• Recommend educational opportunities based on event reporting trends.
• 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.
• 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.

• Licensed Practical Nurse OR
• Associate Degree Nursing OR
• Bachelors Degree in Health Care Administration OR
• Paralegal
• 3 or more years of experience in risk management, paralegal services, claims settlement work or clinical bedside/acute care.

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

• 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.

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Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link asktalentacquisition@kumc.edu.

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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