Senior Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Officer – SEHA HQ – Abu Dhabi – UAE

SEHA HQ invites application for Senior Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Officer in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Job Title:

Senior Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Officer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Key Responsibilities of the role:

• Responsible to coordinate and support the Region Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Section within the  Quality Department. The responsibilities includes: 
  • As part of the overall Quality Strategy, coordinating the development  and implementation of a Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Strategic Plan which reflects SEHA Corporate clinical and patient safety priorities and includes frameworks to effectively measure, monitor and improve outcomes; 
  • Coordinating regional level taskforces to implement quality improvement and patient safety initiatives;
  • Contributing and supporting the Chair of Quality Committee to promote a culture of clinical quality improvement and patient safety, sharing of best practices to drive clinical quality and patient safety improvements and ensure shared learning across the region; 
  • Coordinating the development of clincial guidelines, policy and procedures relevant to clinical quality and patient safety priorities;
  • Highlighting clinical quality and patient safety issues on behalf of the Quality Department and make recommendations for corrective action.
  • Researching trends and new approaches for clinical quality and patient safety and advise on implementation of new methodologies.

Clinical Quality improvement and patient safety:

• Coordinating and supporting the development and implementation of a quality measurement framework to identify, assess and mitigate risk and improve clinical quality and patient safety which is standardised and aligned with the major partners and stakeholders e.g. Joint Commission, DoH Muashir, Daman EBRP and SEHA Corporate Quality. 
• Developing and aligning clinical quality and patient safety key performance indicators measurement both internally (i.e. SEHA KPIs) and externally (i.e. DoH Muashir KPIs) to enable benchmarking and improvement;
• Collaborating with various committees and subject matter expert taskforces to address clinical quality and patient safety priorities through development of clincial guidelines, policy and procedure and support implementation through clinical decision support or other methodologies.
• Monitoring compliance with performance measures and targets set, comparing against international benchmarks,and identifying improvement initiatives to address deficiencies across the region.
• Coordinating and supporting the development and implementation action plans related to any deficiencies in regions.
• Recommending educational initiatives to support quality improvement activity across the region and SEHA e.g. workshops/training on quality and patient safety.
• Aligning with SEHA Corporate Quality, BI Unit, IT and Health Informatics to facilitate the process for electronic capture of standardized clinical performance measures that cover all aspects of care delivery within and across the region. 
• Recommending educational initiatives to support quality improvement activity across the region e.g. workshops/training on quality and patient safety.

Last Date:

May 20, 2024

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