Compliance Jobs in Indianapolis, IN

Specialized Care for the Patients Who Need It Most.

• Competitive pay rates
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• NPH 401(k) plan with up to 4% Company match
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Programs
• Generous PTO and Time Off Policy
• Special tuition offers through Capella University
• Work/life balance with great professional growth opportunities
• Employee Discounts through LifeMart

• Implement and maintain a comprehensive facility-wide risk management program in collaboration with the Corporate Director of Quality and Compliance.
• Identify, investigate, analyze, and trend actual and potential risks involving patients, employees, visitors, clinical care, and facility operations.
• Lead or coordinate investigations of significant incidents, adverse events, near misses, complaints, grievances, and other potential exposures; ensure timely escalation and follow-through.
• Promote a culture of safety and effective incident reporting; educate staff on risk identification, reporting, mitigation, and prevention.
• Collaborate with facility leadership and corporate resources to assess potential liability, legal exposure, reportability, and regulatory notification when significant events occur.
• Develop and maintain systems that support patient safety, proactive risk reduction, and continuous regulatory readiness.
• Conduct routine and targeted facility rounds, tracers, audits, and mock surveys to identify clinical, environmental, operational, and regulatory vulnerabilities before they become adverse events or findings.
• Use RN clinical judgment during rounding and event review to identify patient-safety and care-delivery concerns and promptly escalate nursing or medical issues to the appropriate clinical leader.
• Partner with the Director of Nursing on nursing-related risk and readiness issues without assuming operational authority for nursing services.
• Review complaints and grievances for patient-safety, regulatory, clinical, legal, and reputational exposure; coordinate timely service recovery and follow-through with patients and families.
• Maintain a highly visible and accessible presence for patients and families and conduct proactive rounding to identify concerns early and prevent avoidable escalation.
• Coordinate Root Cause Analyses and other structured reviews for specified events; develop corrective and preventive actions and monitor effectiveness.
• Lead or coordinate the facility Safety Committee and support QAPI activities using incident, complaint, grievance, survey, environmental, and other risk data.
• Maintain continuous survey readiness and serve as a key facility resource during state, federal, accreditation, complaint, validation, and follow-up surveys.
• Coordinate survey requests, documentation, communication, and follow-up activities in partnership with facility and corporate leadership.
• Assist in development of Plans of Correction and regulatory responses; track corrective actions, evidence of implementation, and sustained compliance through closure.
• Identify repeat deficiencies, recurring events, high-risk patterns, and ineffective corrective actions and escalate them to facility and corporate leadership.
• Monitor facility cleanliness, organization, environment of care, safety, and overall presentation; ensure identified issues are assigned, corrected, verified, and sustained.
• Serve as a resource for risk management, patient experience, performance improvement, policy/procedure development, regulatory readiness, and compliance initiatives; provide regular reporting to facility and corporate leadership.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) or related healthcare field required. Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Quality, Risk Management, or related field preferred.
• Minimum two years of experience in healthcare risk management, quality, patient safety, regulatory compliance, or nursing leadership required. Behavioral health or inpatient psychiatric experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with state, CMS, Joint Commission, DNV, or other applicable surveys required; supervisory experience preferred.
• Current, active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of employment or appropriate multistate privilege required.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, patient safety, incident investigation, root cause analysis, regulatory and accreditation standards, complaint and grievance management, service recovery, and performance improvement.
• Ability to identify clinical and operational risks, analyze trends, develop effective corrective actions, and monitor for sustained compliance.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, conflict resolution, organizational, problem-solving, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with patients, families, staff, providers, executive leadership, corporate/legal resources, and regulatory representatives.
• Comfortable maintaining a highly visible, hands-on presence throughout the facility and addressing concerns proactively and professionally.