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Job Details
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Corporate Headquarters - Plymouth Meeting, PA |
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Fully Remote |
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Full Time |
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Graduate Degree Preferred |
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50% |
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Day |
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Healthcare Consulting |
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Description
WHY CHOOSE ECRI? ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
- Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
- On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
- Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
- Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
- Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
ABOUT ECRI At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world. As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care. The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare ECRI is proud to serve the healthcare industry, from providers and insurers to government agencies, and medical associations. Our areas of focus include:
- Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
- Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
- Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally. The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees. It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare. POSITION SUMMARY Individually and in consultation with other members of the ECRI and the Aging Services risk management team, develops materials for risk, quality, and safety consultation, provides education, and online products for aging services and other ECRI clients. Conducts site visits and prepares reports of findings in a timely manner. Prepares materials and presents to clients and other industry players during surveys, teleconferences, webinars, onsite education, seminars, and board meetings. Responds to client queries. Ensures timeliness, quality, and accuracy of work product and fosters ECRI's mission in fulfilling job duties. Responsible for the on-going review and assessment of new and existing Members of the client via on-site assessments of the risk management programs and high-risk areas of the organizations. Maintains updated assessment tools in keeping with changing environments within the aging services continuum. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable Accommodations Statement
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To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential Functions Statements(s)
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Researches, develops, and provides implementation strategies for risk management, risk mitigation and risk reduction and culture of safety techniques for clients.
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Develops materials for distribution, education, and consultation in collaboration with ECRI and outside experts.
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Conducts onsite risk management assessments and orientation of client organizations and prepares reports of findings in a timely manner.
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Reviews and facilitates client responses to site visits. Provides feedback and guidance to clients in the development of systems-based strategies to address identified recommendations.
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Maintains updated assessment and re-assessment tools that reflect the current issues and environment of care in aging services organizations and other healthcare provider organizations.
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Provides onsite consultation and/or education during assessments to boards of directors, executive leadership, management, and staff to assist in the implementation of specific risk management and culture-of-safety strategies to promote safe, effective, and efficient care.
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Develops and imparts educational materials teleconferences, seminars, conferences, webinars, and to client Board and Executive-level committees
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Develops "toolkits" for use by client organizations. Development and implementation strategies of "toolkits" are done in a collaborative and consultative manner.
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Organizes, coordinates, and delivers aging services related "collaboratives" that combine QAPI and risk management techniques to drive quantifiable improvement. Includes integration of online risk assessments where applicable.
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Ensures review of risk management materials by internal and external expert(s) in relevant subject area.
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Additional Responsibilities:
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Provides e-mail and telephone consultation to provider organizations and other clients as assigned, including Member or client provider organization virtual conference calls to provide topic specific consultative services.
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Reviews and proofs typeset versions of own work product.
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Assists with queries/consultation calls and consulting projects.
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Participates in risk management and group meetings as well as other ECRI meetings as requested.
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Other duties, as assigned.
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Qualifications
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS Experience:
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Minimum of 5 years of healthcare safety, quality, or risk management experience in aging services strongly preferred; healthcare management, clinical, or related background required
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Must have experience in culture of safety, quality improvement, risk management and culture of safety investigative techniques (e.g., root cause analysis, FMEA, Risk identification and assessment, primary investigation) is a preferred.
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Ability to understand a wide range of legal, regulatory, and clinical risk management issues that are pertinent to continuing care/aging services and healthcare risk managers
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Ability to provide consultative services to continuing care/aging services executive teams, boards, risk managers, administrators, and clinical administration
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Ability to analyze quality improvement data, establish process and outcome measures, and produce comprehensive reports conveying evidence-based results of quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) efforts
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Ability to develop and deliver learning and education materials
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Advanced presentation and speaking skill
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Excellent writing skills in reports and all forms of written communication
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Ability to protect confidential and proprietary client information and work product
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Ability to protect proprietary work product and intellectual property of ECRI
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Ability to bring creativity to projects and deliver superior customer service to both internal and external customers
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Ability to work autonomously and independently
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Education:
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College degree required/advance degree preferred
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Computer Skills:
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Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 Suite of products (e.g., Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
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POSITION COMPENSATION The salary range for new employees in this position is $80,088.38 - $90,900.31, based on background, experience, and skills. In addition, new employees in this position are eligible for all of our benefit offerings, including, but not limited to, health and welfare benefits, 403(B) retirement savings, and paid time off (PTO). PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This position operates in a remote environment and requires the individual to remain in a stationary position, whether sitting or standing, before a desk or other fixed workspace, most of their workday. In addition, this position requires the individual to occasionally move about their workspace to access and inspect work-related materials, such as file cabinets with physical files and standard office equipment. This position requires the ability to operate standard office equipment, including, but not limited to, a laptop, keyboard, mouse, webcam, and phone, as well as effectively communicate information and ideas to a wide variety of audiences in written and oral form.
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ADA STATEMENT
ECRI is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. We value diversity and believe that a diverse workforce enhances our ability to succeed. ECRI complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment based on these protected characteristics. EEO STATEMENT
ECRI is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. We value diversity and believe that a diverse workforce enhances our ability to succeed. ECRI complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment based on these protected characteristics.
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ECRI Institute
life insurance, paid time off, tuition assistance, 403(b)
Feb 05, 2025