Safety and Emergency Preparedness Specialist
Children »s Hospital of Philadelphia Posted on 2022-11-18
| Salary | Not mentioned |
|---|---|
| Location | King of Prussia, PA 19406 |
| Type | Full-time |
Job Description
Location: LOC_KOP_HOSPITAL-King of Prussia Hospital
Req ID: 224183
Shift: Days
Employment Status: Regular – Full Time
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)—named America’s 2022 Best Large Employer by Forbes—offers countless ways to change lives. Our diverse community of more than 20,000 Breakthrough Makers will inspire you to pursue passions, develop expertise, and drive innovation.
At CHOP, your experience is valued; your voice is heard; and your contributions make a difference for patients and families. Join us as we build on our promise to advance pediatric care—and your career.
CHOP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
CHOP is committed to building an inclusive culture where employees feel a sense of belonging, connection, and community within their workplace. We are a team dedicated to fostering an environment that allows for all to be their authentic selves. We are focused on attracting, cultivating, and retaining diverse talent who can help us deliver on our mission to be a world leader in the advancement of healthcare for children.
We strongly encourage all candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experiences to apply.
Job Summary
In a matrixed relationship with both the leadership from the Environmental Health and Safety, Emergency Preparedness, and Regulatory and Accreditation departments as well as KOPH ACMO, the Environmental Safety, Preparedness and Compliance Specialist supports the KOPH in ensuring a safe work and patient care environment, including but not limited to emergency preparedness, risk mitigation, response and recovery. Additionally, this individual is responsible for maintaining regulatory compliance at the KOPH location in close collaboration with the Regulatory team at the University City Hospital.
The Compliance Specialist is a detail-oriented individual who is capable of building strong working relationships, thinking strategically and is able to work autonomously in complex environments.
Job Responsibilities
- Supports the maintenance of a safe work and patient care environment at KOPH.
- Administers and helps coordinate environment of care, life safety and hazardous materials programs
- Assists in the management of occupational safety related programs including injury investigations, industrial hygiene, and ergonomics
- Track safety data and support related database systems.
- Review ongoing Facilities Maintenance tasks (Lockout Tagout/ Confined Space etc.) for compliance to EH&S policies
- Supports local and system-wide emergency preparedness and management efforts.
- Provides support and facilitation expertise in all phases of emergencies (planning, mitigation, response and recovery).
- Respond to internal and external emergencies affecting the hospital, concerns regarding safety and health and regulatory compliance issues and inspections.
- Participates in emergency response programs, including laboratory, hazardous materials, bio-response, incipient fire brigade, infrastructure failures and on-call programs.
- Plans, coordinates and completes fire drills and emergency preparedness exercises.
- Interfaces with external community partners including public health, first responders and emergency management.
- Partners with enterprise EP leadership in planning for coordinated responses to system level incidents.
- Supports organizational compliance with regulatory standards.
- Conducts and assists with regular investigations, regulatory surveys, risk assessments, audits and data collection.
- Creates and delivers trainings as needed and ensure related compliance.
- Coordinates EOC rounds in KOPH to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.
- Reviews Emergency Preparedness, EH&S and Regulatory policies and procedures for compliance and improvement.
- Serves as the emergency preparedness, EH&S and Regulatory Subject Matter Expert on select KOPH committees and initiatives to maintain a culture of safety and emergency preparedness.
Required Education and Experience
Required Education: Bachelor’s Degree
Required Experience: At least three (3) years’ healthcare compliance, safety and emergency management. Practical and working knowledge and skills within areas of environmental health and safety, emergency preparedness or regulatory compliance.
Preferred Education, Experience & Cert/Lic
Preferred Education:
Environmental Health or Safety, emergency response and planning, code interpretation.
Environmental Health or Safety, emergency response and planning, code interpretation.
Preferred Experience:
Four (4) or more years in a healthcare environment
Four (4) or more years in a healthcare environment
Preferred Licenses/certificates/registrations:
- OSHA 10-hr General Industry
- 24 Hour HAZWOPER
- Certified Healthcare Environmental Manager (CHEM)
- NFPA Life Safety 101 Certificate of Training
- OSHA Accident Investigation
- Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (FEMA)
- IS-100.HCb: Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS 100) for Healthcare/Hospitals
- IS-200.HCa: Applying ICS to Healthcare Organizations
- IS-700.a: An Introduction to National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- IS-800.b: An Introduction to National Response Framework,
- IS-120.a: An Introduction to Exercises
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute
Additional Technical Requirements
- Demonstrated analytic ability and strong written and verbal communications skills
- Demonstrated understanding of the principles of ICS, HICS, NDMS, NIMS, and HSEEP
- Knowledgeable of NFPA codes
- Knowledge and skills related to planning, execution and evaluation of drills and exercises
- Medically cleared to wear Level B personal protective equipment
- Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) 24 hours training by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or within 180 days of placement into position
- Intermediate knowledge of safety guidelines / regulations including from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Association Advancing Occupational and Environmental Health (ACGIH), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and Joint Commission (JC)
- Basic proficiency with personal protective equipment
- Intermediate proficiency with office software (Microsoft Office)
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Strong critical thinking / problem-solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong time management skills
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to gather, analyze and make recommendations/decisions based on data
- Ability to convey complex or technical information in an easy to understand manner
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels including outside authorities having jurisdiction like the Fire Department, Department of Health and Joint Commission
- Ability to be on-call to trouble shoot and resolve problems
- Ability to influence others to accomplish tasks outside of the direct span of control
To carry out its mission, CHOP is committed to supporting the health of our patients, families, workforce, and global community. As a condition of employment, professionals working onsite—at any CHOP location, for any portion of time—must be vaccinated for COVID-19. Learn more.
CHOP also requires employees who work in patient care buildings to receive an annual influenza vaccine. Employees may request exemptions for valid religious and medical reasons. Start dates may be delayed until candidates are immunized or exemption requests are reviewed.
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Company description:
At Children »s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), we help children grow and thrive — and we offer these same opportunities to the professionals who make up our team. CHOP is a unique work environment, with exceptional team members, supportive managers and state-of-the-art training. Our employees are all empowered to realize their well-defined goals, because we believe everyone makes a difference — it’s the very foundation on which our hospital is built. Since 1855, CHOP has been the birthplace of many dramatic firsts in pediatric medicine. As the nation »s first hospital devoted exclusively to caring for children, CHOP has fostered medical discoveries and innovations that have improved pediatric healthcare and saved the lives of countless children. Today, that same spirit of care and innovation continues. The hospital now employs more than 10,000 people in more than 50 locations across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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