The Prehospital Quality & Patient Safety Consultant, reporting to Manager, Quality and Business Systems, Southwest Centre for Prehospital Medicine is responsible for leading, supporting and championing quality and patient safety initiatives within the Southwest Centre for Prehospital Medicine, and in collaboration with program stakeholders and provincial peers.

The Prehospital Quality & Patient Safety Consultant is committed to ensuring a standardized, focused and relentless approach to prehospital safety and quality across the province, particularly in Southwestern Ontario.  

This will be accomplished through: 

• Partnering with staff, program stakeholders and other base hospitals to mitigate patient safety risks, and evaluate the quality of prehospital care in Ontario, particularly in the Southwestern region.
• Facilitating and leading investigations into potential patient care risk and prehospital care variances as identified through quality assurance, Ministry of Health investigations and stakeholder inquires; leading and supporting remediation efforts as appropriate. 
• Building a strong culture of continuous improvement and innovation across the program, its stakeholders and other base hospitals. 
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure compliance with prehospital Patient Care Standards.