Principal, Safety and Risk Management

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal, Safety and Risk Management based in United States.

This is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for shaping and owning safety and clinical risk management across a nationwide behavioral health provider network. You will build and operate the end-to-end system for identifying, investigating, analyzing, and addressing clinical safety events. The role has significant impact on how risks are detected, escalated, and translated into improvements in care delivery. You will serve as a key point of response for high-risk clinical situations while providing compassionate, evidence-informed support to providers and internal teams. Working across Clinical Operations, Legal, Compliance, Data, and Product, you will establish standards, policies, measurement frameworks, and governance processes. You will also translate safety insights into upstream improvements and help shape a growing national patient safety function. This is an opportunity for an experienced behavioral health patient safety or clinical risk leader to build a critical function while it is still evolving.