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In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for partnering with the Board of Directors in providing oversight of systems designed to monitor and ensure the quality care and services are provided at a comparable level to all members and patients across the continuum of care; serving as a point of escalation for complex issues in quality improvement systems; proactively identifying and communicating issues related to the organization meeting the standards established by regulatory agencies and accreditation organizations and meeting public expectations; ensuring the integrity of systems related to the selection, credentialing and competence of physicians and other health care practitioners; monitoring systems for granting or terminating clinical privileges, professional staff or medical staff or clinical staff membership, proctoring and continuing education; reviewing and approving medical staff or provider staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations and amendments; and managing the oversight of systems of all contracted entities including but not limited to the Permanente Medical Groups. This role is also responsible for leading the peer review process, committees, and forums through evaluating and integrating direct information on hospital or health system performance; developing comprehensive feedback; and refining and communicating a strategic development plan to address needs and solve problems.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
- Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for clinical quality improvement processes and regulations practitioners, Quality Specialists, department managers, and peers, projects/committees, and internal stakeholders by: providing consultation on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation; serving as a technical advisor on committees, projects to drive discussions on drawing guidelines on the enforcement, development of policies or procedures of regulations and auditing processes; maintaining collaborative, results oriented partnerships with practitioners and/or staff across clinical and administrative roles to ensure compliance with regulations and improve patient safety, reporting accuracy, and health outcomes and provides insight to the regulation climate; developing educational programs to raise awareness for current and changes in regulation requirement, internal concerns, and system/database usage; and anticipating issues, weighing practical and technical considerations in addressing issues, and coordinating with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions.
- Develops the quality of care complaints and the review process by: coordinating grievance meetings, cases, reviews, referrals, or other mechanisms by collaborating with the ombudsman and external regulatory services; responding to and directing the preparations of all documentation, records, and information requested for specific patient case reviews; ensuring consistent follow through on quality of care concerns and analyzing and managing the process flow of investigations and claims for potential errors, red flags, and areas of improvement; and monitoring critical quality improvement metrics, cases, quality care incidents, and near misses according to established protocols on an ongoing basis.
- Develops risk management efforts by: researching corrective action plan for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, patient satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys; serving as a subject matter expert for internal and external policies, regulations, scientific research, and legislation related to quality improvement; conducting complex root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, and other assessments in response to significant events, near misses, and good catches in order to identify areas of improvement and evaluate newly internalized processes and programs; and exercising independent judgment to escalate high-risk issues and trends to appropriate entity for resolutions.
- Provides consultation for the development of new clinical quality improvement programs by: consulting with teams and departments to develop guidelines, metrics, and operational definitions of quality improvement through qualitative and quantitative program evaluation, analyzing program performance, and peer/department review groups by challenging groups to provide creative solutions; leveraging a variety of health concepts, regulatory requirements, and change management principles to develop programs which optimize clinical quality, safety, or health outcomes; and researching and investigating innovative opportunities to develop KPs capacity as a learning organization, increasing capacity in areas such as video ethnography, patient-reported outcomes, and harvesting of best practices.
- Develops and implements systems, procedures, and forms to improve data management programs and utilizes data to monitor and improve performance of all worker and patient safety programs by: ensuring the quality improvement monitoring agenda for assigned departments includes all aspects of data management and analysis of trends and patterns of practice; conducting descriptive inferential, reliability, and confidence intervals statistical analysis for routine and special projects related to quality improvement evaluations; developing the procedures for gathering and entering data from databases, vital statistics, hospital patient discharge data, claims, and other relevant health sources; and analyzing and presenting reports (e.g., infection control research, utilization reviews, population health needs analysis, patient satisfaction) into specified formats for internal stakeholders and working with departments to develop action plans.
- Develops the process for regulatory audits and survey efforts by: serving as a liaison between external evaluators, vendors, and departments for onsite visits and evaluations; delivering ad hoc and complex requested audit documentation, information, reports, and tools throughout the auditing process; assessing the workflow of completing auditing surveys to identify gaps in completion and reporting; and conducting routine mock audits and surveys within departments to ensure auditing and survey preparedness.
- Seeks and addresses feedback from the evaluation of the cost effectiveness, practicality, and appropriateness of medical care given to patients by: creating the reports to be used in complex case reviews with senior leaders and practitioners; analyzing current standard operating procedures for treatment for specific medical codes to ensure equal and timely access to care and escalates concerns or improvements to senior leaders; analyzing current patient treatment plans to ensure patient needs are met in a timely manner and escalates issues to senior leaders; leading discussions with practitioners, staff, and patients to identify population health needs, such as community health concerns, access to transportation, knowledge of rights, reducing no shows, and others, and providing recommendations to senior leaders; and analyzing previous patient cases to identify areas of improvement for length of stay, type of treatment, and time of treatment, and reporting recommendations to the Manager.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience delivering training programs.
- Minimum four (4) years of experience in clinical setting, health care administration, or a directly related field.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or related field AND Minimum five (5) years of health care experience or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years of experience in health care or a directly related field.
Registered Nurse License (Washington) OR Compact License: Registered Nurse
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Process Improvement; Risk Management; Compliance Management; Health Care Data Analytics; Learning Measurement; Consulting; Managing Diverse Relationships; Delegation; Development Planning; Project Management; Health Care Quality Standards; Quality Improvement; Quality Assurance and Effectiveness; Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).
- Certified Joint Commission Professional (CJCP) or credential(s) from the Healthcare Accreditation Certification Program(s) (HACP).
- Three (3) years of experience in health care auditing and survey.
- Three (3) years of experience in project management.
PrimaryLocation : Washington,Renton,Renton Administration - Rainier
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-WA-04|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Quality & Safety
Department : Renton Admin Rainier - Qlty Rsrc-Crdtlg-Regquant Rsk - 1130
Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for partnering with the Board of Directors in providing oversight of systems designed to monitor and ensure the quality care and services are provided at a comparable level to all members and patients across the continuum of care; serving as a point of escalation for complex issues in quality improvement systems; proactively identifying and communicating issues related to the organization meeting the standards established by regulatory agencies and accreditation organizations and meeting public expectations; ensuring the integrity of systems related to the selection, credentialing and competence of physicians and other health care practitioners; monitoring systems for granting or terminating clinical privileges, professional staff or medical staff or clinical staff membership, proctoring and continuing education; reviewing and approving medical staff or provider staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations and amendments; and managing the oversight of systems of all contracted entities including but not limited to the Permanente Medical Groups. This role is also responsible for leading the peer review process, committees, and forums through evaluating and integrating direct information on hospital or health system performance; developing comprehensive feedback; and refining and communicating a strategic development plan to address needs and solve problems.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
- Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for clinical quality improvement processes and regulations practitioners, Quality Specialists, department managers, and peers, projects/committees, and internal stakeholders by: providing consultation on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation; serving as a technical advisor on committees, projects to drive discussions on drawing guidelines on the enforcement, development of policies or procedures of regulations and auditing processes; maintaining collaborative, results oriented partnerships with practitioners and/or staff across clinical and administrative roles to ensure compliance with regulations and improve patient safety, reporting accuracy, and health outcomes and provides insight to the regulation climate; developing educational programs to raise awareness for current and changes in regulation requirement, internal concerns, and system/database usage; and anticipating issues, weighing practical and technical considerations in addressing issues, and coordinating with the appropriate stakeholders to develop resolutions.
- Develops the quality of care complaints and the review process by: coordinating grievance meetings, cases, reviews, referrals, or other mechanisms by collaborating with the ombudsman and external regulatory services; responding to and directing the preparations of all documentation, records, and information requested for specific patient case reviews; ensuring consistent follow through on quality of care concerns and analyzing and managing the process flow of investigations and claims for potential errors, red flags, and areas of improvement; and monitoring critical quality improvement metrics, cases, quality care incidents, and near misses according to established protocols on an ongoing basis.
- Develops risk management efforts by: researching corrective action plan for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, patient satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys; serving as a subject matter expert for internal and external policies, regulations, scientific research, and legislation related to quality improvement; conducting complex root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, and other assessments in response to significant events, near misses, and good catches in order to identify areas of improvement and evaluate newly internalized processes and programs; and exercising independent judgment to escalate high-risk issues and trends to appropriate entity for resolutions.
- Provides consultation for the development of new clinical quality improvement programs by: consulting with teams and departments to develop guidelines, metrics, and operational definitions of quality improvement through qualitative and quantitative program evaluation, analyzing program performance, and peer/department review groups by challenging groups to provide creative solutions; leveraging a variety of health concepts, regulatory requirements, and change management principles to develop programs which optimize clinical quality, safety, or health outcomes; and researching and investigating innovative opportunities to develop KPs capacity as a learning organization, increasing capacity in areas such as video ethnography, patient-reported outcomes, and harvesting of best practices.
- Develops and implements systems, procedures, and forms to improve data management programs and utilizes data to monitor and improve performance of all worker and patient safety programs by: ensuring the quality improvement monitoring agenda for assigned departments includes all aspects of data management and analysis of trends and patterns of practice; conducting descriptive inferential, reliability, and confidence intervals statistical analysis for routine and special projects related to quality improvement evaluations; developing the procedures for gathering and entering data from databases, vital statistics, hospital patient discharge data, claims, and other relevant health sources; and analyzing and presenting reports (e.g., infection control research, utilization reviews, population health needs analysis, patient satisfaction) into specified formats for internal stakeholders and working with departments to develop action plans.
- Develops the process for regulatory audits and survey efforts by: serving as a liaison between external evaluators, vendors, and departments for onsite visits and evaluations; delivering ad hoc and complex requested audit documentation, information, reports, and tools throughout the auditing process; assessing the workflow of completing auditing surveys to identify gaps in completion and reporting; and conducting routine mock audits and surveys within departments to ensure auditing and survey preparedness.
- Seeks and addresses feedback from the evaluation of the cost effectiveness, practicality, and appropriateness of medical care given to patients by: creating the reports to be used in complex case reviews with senior leaders and practitioners; analyzing current standard operating procedures for treatment for specific medical codes to ensure equal and timely access to care and escalates concerns or improvements to senior leaders; analyzing current patient treatment plans to ensure patient needs are met in a timely manner and escalates issues to senior leaders; leading discussions with practitioners, staff, and patients to identify population health needs, such as community health concerns, access to transportation, knowledge of rights, reducing no shows, and others, and providing recommendations to senior leaders; and analyzing previous patient cases to identify areas of improvement for length of stay, type of treatment, and time of treatment, and reporting recommendations to the Manager.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience delivering training programs.
- Minimum four (4) years of experience in clinical setting, health care administration, or a directly related field.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or related field AND Minimum five (5) years of health care experience or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years of experience in health care or a directly related field.
Registered Nurse License (Washington) OR Compact License: Registered Nurse
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Process Improvement; Risk Management; Compliance Management; Health Care Data Analytics; Learning Measurement; Consulting; Managing Diverse Relationships; Delegation; Development Planning; Project Management; Health Care Quality Standards; Quality Improvement; Quality Assurance and Effectiveness; Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
- Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).
- Certified Joint Commission Professional (CJCP) or credential(s) from the Healthcare Accreditation Certification Program(s) (HACP).
- Three (3) years of experience in health care auditing and survey.
- Three (3) years of experience in project management.
PrimaryLocation : Washington,Renton,Renton Administration - Rainier
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-WA-04|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Quality & Safety
Department : Renton Admin Rainier - Qlty Rsrc-Crdtlg-Regquant Rsk - 1130
Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in safety advisor jobs.
- OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification and working knowledge of OSHA standards
- Experience conducting workplace hazard assessments, audits, and incident investigations
- Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or Associate Safety Professional (ASP) preferred or required
- Proficiency with safety management systems, reporting software, and audit documentation tools
- Bachelor's degree in occupational health, safety management, environmental science, or a related field
- Ability to develop and deliver safety training programs for frontline and supervisory staff
Tips for Your Safety Advisor Job Search
Lead your resume with certifications
Hiring managers for safety advisor roles scan for credentials before reading anything else. Put your CSP, OSHA 30, or CHST near the top of your resume so reviewers confirm your qualifications without scrolling.
Quantify your incident reduction results
Generic safety experience blends in. Bullet points that name a specific metric, such as a reduced recordable injury rate or fewer near-miss incidents after a program you ran, give reviewers a concrete reason to call you.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists safety advisor openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor applications to the industry hazard profile
A construction safety advisor role and a healthcare safety advisor role share a title but require different expertise. Mirror the hazard language in each posting, whether that's fall protection, chemical exposure, or ergonomics, so your application reads as a direct fit.
Prepare a scenario answer about a real incident
Interviewers almost always ask how you handled an actual safety failure or near-miss. Prepare a concise story that covers what happened, your investigation steps, the corrective action you led, and the measurable outcome that followed.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Safety advisors often have more leverage over their reporting structure and equipment budget than their base pay. When an offer comes in, ask about your authority to issue stop-work orders and what your annual safety budget will be before accepting.
Safety Advisor Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most safety advisors?
The most active employers for safety advisors right now are Cardinal Health, ExxonMobil, and The Dutra, and the most openings are in Texas, Ohio, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Industries with the heaviest hiring tend to be construction, energy, and large-scale manufacturing.
How do you become a safety advisor?
Start by completing an OSHA 30-hour training course in construction or general industry, depending on the sector you want to enter. Pair that with a bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental health, or a related field. Gain hands-on experience through internships, entry-level EHS technician roles, or site safety coordinator positions. Pursue your ASP and then CSP credentials as your hours accumulate to move into advisory-level work.
Can you get a safety advisor job without experience?
Some employers hire candidates with limited direct experience if they hold relevant certifications like OSHA 30 or a safety-focused degree and can demonstrate analytical and communication skills. Entry points include safety coordinator, EHS technician, or assistant safety officer roles that build the field hours and incident documentation experience most safety advisor postings require before promoting or hiring at the advisor level.
What does the safety advisor interview process look like?
Most safety advisor interviews run across two to three rounds. The first is typically a screening call with HR covering your background and certifications. The second is a technical interview with a safety manager or EHS director where you walk through how you have handled real incidents, audits, and regulatory inspections. A final round may involve a site walk or a presentation on a hypothetical safety improvement program.
Where can I find and apply to safety advisor jobs?
You can find and apply to safety advisor jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and target industry, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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