Vice President - Teammate Health & Safety

October 30, 2024

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Advocate Aurora Health

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Advocate Aurora Health is a leading healthcare organization that operates across various regions including Central Chicagoland, Central Wisconsin, Greater Milwaukee, and more. With a diverse range of career areas such as advanced practice clinicians, behavioral health, nursing, and more, Advocate Aurora Health is committed to helping people live well. The organization offers numerous benefits and opportunities for career advancement, fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and innovate in the healthcare sector. Advocate Aurora Health prioritizes the safety of its candidates and maintains a robust recruitment process to protect sensitive information.

Health Care • Hospitals • Outpatient Care • Clinical Trials • Scientific Research

10,000+ employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $10.2M Grant on 2019-08

📋 Description

• Integrates and harmonizes all teammate health and safety policies and procedures across the enterprise. • Ensures new hire and ongoing programs support the culture of zero-harm, teammate engagement, and the science of safety principles. • Develops, implements, and evaluates enterprise-wide teammate health and safety programs. • Designs, evaluates, and implements comprehensive strategies, procedures, policies, and programs to improve health program effectiveness. • Provides strategic direction for health programs that ensures continuity, standardization, and best practices for a safe environment for patients and caregivers throughout Advocate Health. • Implements technology across the enterprise to create a more seamless and efficient experience. • Creates and promotes a culture of health throughout the organization. • Ensures ongoing education and training to encourage teammate health and safety awareness. • Promotes proactive and preventive health activities to ensure program requirements are met consistently and injuries are reduced. • Works in collaboration with leaders to integrate best practices, establish health goals, and communicate and reinforce health and safety policies and procedures. • Directs teams to identify and mitigate organizational issues related to employee health. • Directs readiness initiatives and manages and performs site audits to ensure regulatory compliance. • Develop and implement risk reduction strategies and tactical plans to support a culture of zero-harm. • Collaborates with worker’s compensation in the monitoring of loss claims and advises affiliates in the handling of claims. • Develops strategies, policies, and processes to improve the worker’s compensation experience and to reduce costs and cases. • Develops and executes clinical strategies to achieve key clinical, service and efficiency requirements by leveraging key data. • Ensures adherence to and assists in the achievement of clinical performance outcomes and measurements utilizing a collaborative process.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in nursing or related field. • Registered Nurse license issued by the state in which the team member practices. • Typically requires 10 years of experience in health care related experience. • Includes 5 years of management experience in management of staff, budgets, and multiple employee health services and safety functions with multi-site accountability. • Advanced knowledge of state and federal regulations, handicapped discrimination laws, and hospital/clinic accreditation agency requirements. • Advanced knowledge of current occupational and employee health best practices. • Advanced knowledge of development and trends in health care practices. • Ability to work and function in a complex corporate system environment. • Ability to build teamwork and trust for employee health programs. • Strong people skills are essential as well as strong oral and written communication skills and a proven record of collaborating effectively with all levels of employees, management, executives, and other organizations to address difficult and controversial issues. • Demonstrated advanced consulting skills and ability to effectively develop, implement, and apply organizational strategies to address complex sourcing, recruitment, and business challenges.