Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness. Position Summary The Compliance Specialist shall report directly to the Risk and Compliance Director. The role functions as an objective resource to review and evaluate compliance issues/concerns within the medical centers. Endorses compliance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations as well as company policies and procedures. Promotes awareness and understanding of positive ethical and moral principles consistent with the mission, vision, and values of the organization. Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compliance

Promotes understanding, communication and coordination of the organizations Compliance Program. Maintains up-to-date working knowledge of applicable standards and guidelines. Encourages understanding, communication and coordination of the clinical quality, compliance initiatives and compliance standards. Supports incident reporting by conducting interviews, asking questions, and completing a report Reports findings (at various levels of detail) to the Risk and Compliance Director, including proposed recommendations and corrective action plans. Actively participates in compliance meetings. Provides support for internal and external regulatory and quality audits. Works with functional areas to assure compliance related-issues have the appropriate support to proactively measure/assess compliance.

HIPAA

Works with Upper Management to ensure the clinic obtains and maintains appropriate privacy and confidentiality consent and authorization forms. Will have to conduct in-service training from time-to-time Reports findings (at various levels of detail) to the Risk and Compliance Director, including proposed recommendations and corrective action plans.

OSHA

Performs quarterly assessments of the workplace to ensure it is free from serious recognized hazards and is in compliance with standards, rules and regulations issued under the Act Maintains operating procedures and communicates them to ensure employees comply with safety and health requirements

 

Regulatory

Communicates changes and updates to staff and management, as applicable Provides support in preparing and submitting applications and reports.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position manages all employees of the department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee is subject to environmental conditions; protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.