Patient Safety Specialist - JHH Oncology

Join Johns Hopkins Hospital as our Oncology Patient Safety Specialist — a pivotal, high-impact role where your leadership and clinical insight will directly shape safer care for oncology patients across inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Why this role matters

• Serve as the multidisciplinary safety lead for the Department of Oncology, working at the intersection of frontline care and system-wide improvement.
• Partner closely with nurses, physicians, pharmacists, operations leaders and other key stakeholders to identify, analyze and mitigate patient safety risks.
• Drive both proactive and reactive improvement efforts: uncover latent system vulnerabilities, support frontline staff through critical events, and implement sustainable solutions that reduce harm and improve outcomes.
• Act as the trusted, visible safety champion across the oncology departments — coordinating service-wide involvement, aligning unit-based expertise with system-focused strategies, and advancing a culture of high reliability and just culture.

What you’ll do

• Lead cross-disciplinary safety initiatives that span inpatient and ambulatory oncology care.
• Rapidly assess safety events, facilitate root cause and systems analyses, and translate findings into actionable, measurable interventions.
• Build strong relationships with frontline teams to understand workflows, coach improvement efforts, and support staff during and after safety events.
• Use data, human factors principles, and quality methods (CUSP, Lean) to prioritize risks and drive measurable change.
• Promote and operationalize high reliability practices and a just culture that empowers staff to speak up and continuously improve.

Who we’re looking for

• A collaborative communicator and natural convener who can build trust across disciplines and lead change from concept through implementation.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and mature — able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced clinical environment.
• Comfortable blending clinical insight with systems thinking to design practical, enduring safety solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or active matriculation in a Master’s degree program; degree must be completed within 18 months of hire.
• Knowledge and experience with patient safety science, high reliability principles, just culture, and CUSP

Why Johns Hopkins Hospital

• Be part of an internationally respected institution where your work will influence practice across a world-class oncology program.
• Collaborate with top clinicians and safety experts, and have access to the resources and interdisciplinary teams needed to make real, measurable improvements in patient safety.
• Grow your career in a role that combines clinical credibility, operational influence, and system-level impact.

If you are passionate about patient safety, skilled at translating frontline insights into system change, and eager to lead safety innovations in oncology care, we want to hear from you. Apply today and help us advance the safest possible care for our patients.

Shift: This is a hybrid position working in-person, on-campus 3-4 days/week, and working remotely 1-2 days/week, Monday-Friday, 8 hour days

Salary Range: Minimum 46.57/hour - Maximum 72.18/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility. In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.