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Froedtert

Patient Safety Specialist - FH Patient Safety

Milwaukee, WI · On-site

$17.75 - $22.75/hr

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Provides diversified system-wide or multi-clinic support for patient safety activities that impact ... Serves as an internal systems thinking expert and consultant. Collaborates with departments and ...

WVU Medicine

Manager Patient Safety

Martinsburg, WV · On-site

... education, consultation, updates, reports, and communication regarding patient safety initiatives, concerns, trends, and opportunities for improvement. 5. Serves as a facilitator for the ...

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A Patient Safety Consultant is a healthcare professional who assesses, develops, and implements strategies to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors. They analyze data, review policies, and collaborate with medical staff to enhance care quality and compliance with safety regulations. Their role often involves identifying risks, developing training programs, and ensuring adherence to best practices. By promoting a culture of safety, they help healthcare organizations minimize patient harm and improve overall healthcare outcomes.

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A typical day for a Patient Safety Consultant involves reviewing patient safety data, analyzing incident reports, conducting root cause analyses, and meeting with clinical and administrative teams to discuss findings and recommendations. You’ll often facilitate training sessions, lead safety improvement projects, and ensure that policies and procedures meet regulatory requirements. Collaboration with a variety of healthcare professionals is common, and your insights contribute directly to shaping safer care environments. The role is dynamic, often balancing proactive risk assessments with addressing immediate safety concerns.

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To thrive as a Patient Safety Consultant, you need a background in healthcare, risk management, and quality improvement, often supported by a clinical degree or certification such as CPHQ (Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality) or CPPS (Certified Professional in Patient Safety). Familiarity with incident reporting systems, root cause analysis tools, and healthcare regulatory standards is typically required. Exceptional analytical skills, attention to detail, effective communication, and the ability to influence and educate multidisciplinary teams set outstanding consultants apart. These competencies are crucial to identifying potential safety issues, implementing solutions, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within healthcare organizations.

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Infographic showing various Patient Safety Consultant job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 80% Full Time, 17% Part Time, 1% Contract, and 1% Nights. Highlights an 99% Physical, and 1% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $72,356 per year, or $34.8 per hour.

Patient Safety and Risk Consultant

John Peter Smith Hospital

Fort Worth, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 21 days ago

John Peter Smith Hospital rating

8.2

Company rating: 8.2 out of 10

Based on 40 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

100th of 1,060 rated hospitals

Job description

Job Summary: The Patient Safety & Risk Consultant assists Leadership with development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient safety and continuous survey readiness strategies.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:

  1. Responsible for the reviews and evaluation of safety events and incidents for both ambulatory and inpatient care, including the identification and prioritization of serious events for further evaluation.

  2. Facilitates Root Cause Analysis, FMEA, and other tools to support multidisciplinary teams to achieve clinical and regulatory performance improvement goals. Provides timely information to TJC when an untoward event occurs, whether by accident or not, that causes serious harm to a patient.

  3. Partners with staff to identify and implement solutions that address contributing factors to adverse patient events via process improvement activities, policy development, etc.

  4. Participates in managing serious incidents and follow up actions to ensure implementation of system changes.

  5. Contributes to the development and implementation of a robust Continuous Survey Readiness and Patient Safety program as a District-wide system.

  6. Assesses compliance standards regarding regulatory changes via tracers, case reviews and chart reviews.

  7. Acts as a resource to JPS leadership to provide overviews of status of clinical regulatory compliance and readiness.

  8. Facilitates all surveys, including mock surveys, and functions as a member of the onsite survey management team during regulatory and licensure surveys by the Department of Public Health, Department of Mental Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and The Joint Commission or other regulatory/licensing bodies.

  9. Works with leadership to implement programs designed to maximize patient safety, clinical risk prevention, and continuous survey readiness performance and evaluation as established by organizations/programs such as NQF/Leapfrog Program and TJC NPSGs and Sentinel Event Alerts.

  10. Rounds, educates, and collaborates with assigned area leaders and frontline staff on patient safety/regulatory efforts, reporting events or concerns, and loop closure of prior events/concerns, per agreed upon time frames/schedule.

  11. Utilizes best practice information from external organizations (e.g., ISMP, ECRI, IHI), to develop materials for inclusion in educational resources and programs.

  12. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.

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