Health and Safety Manager jobs in Santa Rosa, CA

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education/related experience: Required
• Master's Degree: Preferred
• Seven years' related experience: Preferred
• Five years' leadership experience: Preferred

Licenses/Certifications:

• Completion of FEMA Incident Command Systems ICS-100, 200, 700 and 800 within 30 days of hire: Required
• Valid Driver's License (DL) and must be at least 21 years of age or older: Required

Essential Functions:

• Attends emergency preparedness meetings with local, regional, state, and federal level agencies, and incorporates outcomes, decisions, and recommendations to site quality and safety leadership and hospital executives. Attends and actively participates in hospital meetings that may include but not limited to infection control/safety/quality/emergency preparedness. Demonstrates competence in hospital emergency management concepts within a complex and fast paced environment.
• Leads a multi-disciplinary approach to the integration of emergency planning standards into routine processes and activities at a site level. Oversees the Emergency Management committee to assure the effective oversight and monitoring and reporting of EM standards. Ensures alignment and compliance with TJC, CMS, FEMA, OSHA, NFPA emergency management requirements. Engages in proactive problem resolution and strategies for emergency management program management to include incorporating best practices and alignment with system emergency management initiatives. Ensures The Joint Commission (TJC) proper documentation for the EOC and LS Chapters as related to security services is maintained across the system by the identified service provider. Complies with all Adventist Health policies and procedures, including but not limited to ethics and business practice.
• Provides guidance and mentoring as the emergency management subject matter expert (SME) engaging with all departments (on and off site), clinical staff, and partners, and engages leadership in establishing a culture of preparedness. Designs, develops, and implements hospital training and exercises, to include drills/exercises, in partnership with leadership, physicians, and healthcare workers associated with TJC, CMS, OSHA, NFPA, and other applicable regulations relating to emergency management program requirements. Determines the degree of compliance with applicable standards, specifically in the areas of Joint Commission Environment of Care, CMS, Title 22 California Administrative Code, OSHPD, NFPA101 Life Safety Code-SOC/PFI/ILSM, Safety Management, Bio-Hazardous Waste, and Hazardous Materials Management.
• Leads the development and annual maintenance of the facility's written disaster plans and procedures to ensure effective multi-hazard disaster response. Maintains all disaster equipment and supplies in a clean, secure location and ensures that all disaster resources are easily accessible and available for rapid deployment. Supports the development and maintenance of hospital decontamination program to ensure compliance with State and Federal regulations. Engages with offsite departments to include, but not limited to, clinics, dental, home health, and hospital at home programs and develops department specific emergency plans and includes departments in training/education, drills/exercise annually.
• Supports a safe work environment for staff by ensuring adherence to all safety/infection control policies and procedures/practices to include but not limited to the wearing of appropriate protective clothing and gear and the proper handling of contaminated equipment and tools. Identifies performance improvement opportunities using internal and external auditing to include rounding, tracers, and other appropriate methodologies. Participates in incident investigation to identify causal factors to determine how incidents might be prevented in the future. Recommends remedial and corrective action. Ensures completion of complex internal hospital security investigations as requested by hospital senior staff. Maintains a professional working relationship with local law enforcement and correctional entities involving hospital-related matters. Serves as the hospital's point of contact and liaison with these various entities. Collaborates with key stakeholders in supporting their lead in updates of the Adventist Health Workplace Violence Plan and other risk management related initiatives, and policies.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Organizational Requirements:

Adventist Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of our associates and patients. Therefore, we require that all associates receive all required vaccinations, including, but not limited to, measles, mumps, flu (based on the seasonal availability of the flu vaccine typically during October-March each year), COVID-19 vaccine (required in CA, HI and OR) etc., as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter. Medical and religious exemptions may apply.