Principal, Safety and Risk Management
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JobgetherBehavioral Health
Based in United StatesFull-TimePrincipal
Salary$144,000–$280,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of experience in healthcare patient safety or clinical risk management
- Required Skills
- Data Analysis
Requirements
- Active clinical license as a master's-level therapist (LCSW, LPC, LMFT), doctoral clinical psychologist (PhD/PsyD), or psychiatric clinician (PMHNP-BC, MD/DO).
- 7+ years of experience in healthcare patient safety or clinical risk management, including direct ownership of event investigation and corrective action.
- Demonstrated experience building or substantially scaling a safety event or clinical risk program from project planning through launch and growth.
- Strong knowledge of established patient safety methods, clinical industry standards, and structured investigation practices.
- Sound clinical judgment when triaging and escalating issues, with the ability to distinguish clinical matters from operational or legal questions and route them appropriately.
- Strong data fluency, including the ability to define meaningful metrics, critically assess dashboards, interpret trends, and develop deeper analytical approaches.
- Proven ability to drive corrective actions to verified closure across teams outside your direct management structure.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document investigations clearly and present findings to senior clinical and business leaders.
- Certification in Quality and Patient Safety, Healthcare Quality and Management, Healthcare Risk Management, or an equivalent patient safety credential is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own the complete operating system for reported safety events, from intake and triage through investigation, systematic event analysis, corrective and preventive action, and verified case closure.
- Build a strong reporting culture that encourages safety events to be surfaced and addressed effectively.
- Lead investigations of serious events, including root cause and apparent cause analyses, while establishing investigation standards and reference taxonomies for use at scale.
- Translate investigation findings into corrective and preventive actions with clear owners and deadlines, and drive those actions through verified closure across teams.
- Respond to high-risk clinical events requiring immediate attention, including situations involving impaired providers or adverse patient behavior, while providing timely and compassionate guidance.
- Develop and maintain patient safety and event management protocols and policies in partnership with Clinical Operations, Legal, and Compliance.
- Define safety metrics and baseline event rates, own the Clinical Risk Dashboard, and analyze trends and contributing factors.
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