Quality and Patient Safety:

• Demonstrates diligence in ensuring the safety of the clinical environment for staff, patients and visitors.
• Demonstrates knowledge, practice, and accountability for compliance with the TJC National Patient Safety Goals.
• Detects, reports, and takes action to avoid or correct employee and visitor safety risks.
• Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.Educates staff in flu vaccine rationale to promote participation and infection prevention.
• Advocates, provides consultative guidance and incorporates safe lifting techniques, body mechanics and other injury preventive strategies necessary in daily practice.
• Contributes expertise to promote employee, visitor and patient safety throughout the organization by participation in relevant councils and committees and other workgroups as assigned or requested.
• Advocates and reinforces safe sharps handling and related blood borne exposure practices and policies.

Cost Effectiveness:

• Proactively seeks opportunities to improve employee health compliance, reduced work absence, reduced employee injuries and prevent care delays.
• Effectively sets priorities and demonstrates efficient time management skills.
• Adjusts schedule to meet identified needs of the persons served related to employee health initiatives, employee participation and education.
• Identifies and recommends new technologies and processes that reduce the cost of care or improve patient / employee health outcomes.

Education and Research:

• Assumes responsibility for maintaining and upgrading competency and clinical knowledge base related to role.
• identifies and addresses learning needs of self and fellow staff.
• Attends required in-services. Completes written training exercises.

Supports and guides participation in approved research projects.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation

• Pay Range: $35.51-$47.39
• Other Compensation (if applicable):
• Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide