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Patient Safety and Peer Review Specialist
PATIENT SAFETY (Billings Clinic Main Campus)
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Shift: Day
Employment Status: Full-Time (.75 or greater)
Hours per Pay Period: 1.00 = 80 hours every two weeks (Exempt)
Starting Wage DOE:$40.91 - $51.14

The Peer Review Specialist is a position within the Patient Safety Department of Billings Clinic. This role serves as a subject matter expert in peer review systems and coordination, supporting the delivery of the highest quality and safest care while promoting transparency, provider engagement, and system-level learning. The Peer Review Specialist collaborates closely with the Peer Review Chair and Patient Safety team to ensure consistency in peer review referrals and reviews, timeliness of responses, and completion of organizational-level process improvement activities identified through the peer review process. Responsibilities include management of peer review case logistics, facilitation of committee processes, cause analysis activities with strong provider involvement, and alignment of peer review findings with OPPE metrics.

Essential Job Functions

• Peer Review Process Management
Coordinate all logistics for peer review cases, including intake through entry into RL event reporting system, tracking, reviewer assignments, documentation, and follow-up communications.

• Provider Engagement and Education
Serve as a resource for providers regarding peer review processes, expectations, and status updates, Develop and distribute educational materials to support understanding of peer review and related performance improvement activities. Coordinate feedback loops and integrate lessons learned from peer review into clinical practice.

• Organizational Learning and Improvement
Track and analyze peer review trends to identify system-level issues and opportunities for improvement. Partner with Quality, Risk, and other teams to address concerns and implement sustainable solutions. Support the development and monitoring of OPPE metrics linked to peer review outcomes.

• Patient Safety Integration
Collaborate with the Patient Safety team in facilitating cause analysis processes where provider involvement is significant and systems opportunities are identified during reviews. Assist in managing RL event reporting system, specifically the Peer Review module, and coverage into patient safety and RCA modules as needed to support departmental needs. Support patient safety initiatives by applying knowledge of high reliability organizing (HRO) principles, process improvement, and quality standards.

• General
Participate in short- and long-term departmental planning and policy development. Maintain competency in organizational, departmental, and external agency standards relevant to job performance. Support and model behaviors consistent with Billings Clinic’s mission, vision, values, and service expectations. Supports and models behaviors consistent with Billings Clinic’s mission, vision, values, code of business conduct and service expectations. Meets all mandatory organizational and departmental requirements. Maintains competency in all organizational, departmental and outside agency standards as it relates to the environment, employee, patient safety or job performance. Performs all other duties as assigned or as needed to meet the needs of the department/organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Education
4 Year / Bachelors Degree (BSN) in Nursing

Experience
Five (5) years of RN experience in a clinical setting. Experience with peer review processes or formal healthcare leadership preferred. Experience in patient safety, quality, performance improvement, and/or risk management preferred.

Certifications and Licenses
Current Montana state license as Registered Nurse or ability to obtain.

Or an equivalent combination of education and experience relating to the above tasks, knowledge, skills and abilities will be considered. Employees that require a licensed or certification must be properly licensed/certified and the licensure/certification must be in good standing.

Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health system serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, the health system is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. Billings Clinic includes an integrated multi-specialty group practice, tertiary care hospital and trauma center, based in Billings, Montana. Learn more at www.billingsclinic.com/aboutus

Billings Clinic is committed tobeing an inclusive and welcoming employer, that strives to be kind, safe, andcourageous in all we do. As an equal opportunity employer, our policies andprocesses are designed to achieve fair and equitable treatment of all employeesand job applicants. All employees and job applicants will be provided the sametreatment in all aspects of the employment relationship, regardless of race,color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maritalstatus, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, and/ordisability. To ensure we provide an accessible candidate experience forprospective employees, please let us know if you need any accommodations duringthe recruitment process.

Human Resources is located on the corner of North 29th and8th Avenue North. Enter through the main entrance to the building and go to the lower level. Human Resources is located at the bottom of the main entrance staircase to the right.