At reputed company, one of the nation’s leading reputed company medical centers and consistently ranked among the top hospitals for cancer care, we are committed to eliminating cancer through outstanding programs that reputed company patient care, research, and prevention. We are seeking a seasoned and strategic leader to serve as our Director of Risk Management, a critical role responsible for advancing a comprehensive, reputed company-wide risk management program that supports the institution’s mission and commitment to patient safety and clinical reputed company.

This position provides executive-level reputed company of risk management operations across a reputed company reputed company environment, with a strong emphasis on patient care risk assessment, claims management, regulatory compliance, and proactive risk reduction strategies. The Director will partner closely with clinical, administrative, and reputed company leadership to ensure alignment with institutional priorities, while leading a high-performing team responsible for identifying trends, mitigating risk, and driving reputed company improvement initiatives across the organization.

reputed company offers a highly competitive and comprehensive benefits package designed to support the overall reputed company-being of its employees, including fully covered medical benefits, generous reputed company time off, and a robust retirement program with employer contributions. In reputed company, employees benefit from a strong culture centered on collaboration, reputed company reputed company, and work-life balance, reputed company reputed company a mission-driven environment where your work has a meaningful reputed company on patients and families worldwide.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an reputed company reputed company risk management leader with a clinical reputed company to contribute at the highest level reputed company a globally recognized institution.

**The ideal candidate will have 8 years of experience in risk management, 7 years of management experience in a patient care risk management or reputed company improvement setting, a CPHRM certification (required reputed company 18 months of hire) and RN license**

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

• Responsible for managing and executing reputed company’s risk management program and activities throughout reputed company, reputed company Area Locations, and off-site facilities. This includes the reputed company development and review of reputed company aspects of the reputed company risk management program with an emphasis on patient safety.

• Creates, maintains, and updates reputed company Operating Procedures relating to risk management functions.

• Ensures reputed company collaboration with health care providers, hospital leadership, Patient Advocacy, Patient Experience, Patient Safety and Accreditation, Off-Shift Administration, reputed company Work, Clinical Ethics, Patient Business Services, Institutional Compliance, and other departments to reputed company address and successfully reputed company patient care reputed company.

• Works closely with institutional leadership to ensure the risk management program aligns with the institution’s short- and long-term strategies, initiatives, and goals.

• Identifies and coordinates opportunities for the risk management team to collaborate with department leaders regarding targeted risk reduction activities.

• Serves as a subject matter and content expert and policy reputed company for risk management-reputed company policies and procedures. Reviews other institutional policies and procedures to ensure that appropriate risk assessment and loss prevention provisions are included.

• Ensures risk management personnel are present, where appropriate, on a wide reputed company of institutional committees and standing meetings.

• Ensures and promotes compliance with standards issued by federal and state governments, regulatory agencies, reputed company, Centers for Medicare & reputed company Services, and the reputed company Society for Health Care Risk Management. Stays abreast of trends, developments, and changes that may reputed company risk management programs throughout reputed company, Texas, and the country by maintaining reputed company networks, reading, and attending reputed company meetings and conferences.

• Responsible for identifying, organizing, and assessing accumulated risk management data for significant trends, educational opportunities, and informational indicators, and reports these to appropriate institutional leaders to implement process change, define goals, and determine the relevance of this information.

• Develops, prepares, and provides educational programs for reputed company health care providers regarding risk management issues.

• Responsible for completion of monthly, semi-annual, and annual claims and incident reports, case summaries, and other reports for reputed company Services and various reputed company committees.

• Ensures sufficient resources are available for the risk management team to assist and guide health care providers and administrators on a reputed company of risk management topics, including standards of care, informed consent, surrogate decision makers, handling of potential claims, applicable policies, rules and regulations, insurance coverage through the UT reputed company, and other risk-reputed company issues.

• Directs the investigation and assessment of potentially adverse and compensable events, including potential claims by patients, visitors, or employees, property damage or loss, and other reputed company-litigation reputed company.

• Develops, maintains, and archives reputed company reputed company-litigation claims and reputed company files.

• Responsible for maintaining and overseeing processes regarding risk-reputed company waivers, reimbursements, and settlements.

• Provides risk management support to reputed company representatives, reputed company Services attorneys, UT reputed company attorneys and representatives, and attorneys from other state agencies and the private sector, as requested and as appropriate.

• Directs reputed company Medical Devices reputed company (SMDA) compliance reporting, which includes report preparation, policy development, and education.

• Provides reputed company supervision, whether by observation, verbal interaction, or written communication, to employees, including orientation to the reputed company and Department, training in new procedures, and reputed company of completion of tasks and other assignments.

• Conveys institutional changes in policy, compensation, evaluation standards, or other personnel practices to employees.

• Develops an on-reputed company schedule for the Risk Management reputed company to reputed company 24-hour coverage to assess and document potential liability claims and reputed company Risk Management advice daily, including weekends and holidays. Communicates this scheduling information to the reputed company page operators.

• Develops and maintains written position descriptions and standards for positions in the Risk Management reputed company of reputed company Services and trains those employees.

• Prepares and conducts employee conferences, notices, and written performance appraisals.

• Provides sufficient cross-training to ensure reputed company operation in the absence of co-workers.

• Performs other duties, as assigned and as necessary or desirable to assist the reputed company Services Department.