Legacy Health ? Privacy Officer ? Portland, OR

Job title: Privacy Officer

Company: Legacy Health

Job description: Privacy Officer

US-OR-Portland

Job ID: 22-25629

Type: Regular Full-Time

System Office 1919 Building

Overview

At Legacy, we strive every day to make life better for others. Our committment to compliance reflects our dedication to quality healthcare and patient privacy.

Together, we will follow the Legacy mission of making life better for others. Your strong leadership skills and knowledge of privacy practices, combined with your genuine concern for the confidentiality of protected health information, help to fulfill the Legacy mission of making life better for others.

This is a hybrid-remote position - incumbents, who reside in Oregon or Washington only, may work 2-3 days a week at an assigned Legacy Health location, and other days may work remotely at home, on the road or in a satellite location for the remainder of their workweek.

All new hires are required to come to a designated Legacy Health office location in Portland, Oregon prior to their start date for a new hire health assessment and to complete new hire paperwork.

Note that our employee health plan coverage is for providers based in the Legacy Health geographic region. To find providers in our network . Urgent and emergent coverage is available outside the geographic region and telehealth is available within Oregon and Washington.

This position may require initial training and orientation to be site-based, before transitioning to the hybrid schedule.

Responsibilities

The role of the Privacy Officer is essential to minimizing Legacy's exposure to compliance risk and reputational harm resulting from data breaches and other violations of the federal Privacy Rule and similar state privacy laws and regulations.

The Privacy Officer is responsible for the organization's Privacy Program (?Program?). The Privacy Officer will monitor compliance with federal and state privacy regulations, as well as general industry privacy standards related to protected health information and other restricted or sensitive information collected, used, and/or retained.

This includes accountability for researching and serving as a subject matter expert on highly complex privacy issues, and for translating relevant state, federal regulations, and industry privacy standards into policy, guidance, tools, best practices, and metrics, resulting in a system-wide privacy compliance program.

This position contributes to the fulfillment of the Legacy's mission, values, and philosophy by serving as the subject matter expert on laws, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to the protection of private and confidential information. The privacy officer will oversee the daily operations of the program, development, implementation, and maintenance of policies and procedures, investigation and tracking of incidents and breaches and insuring patients' rights in compliance with federal and state laws.

This position plans, coordinates, manages, and conducts risk assessments and independent compliance reviews to evaluate compliance within Legacy and all hospitals and other sites of care with all applicable state and/or federal regulations and Legacy policies (including the Standards of Business Conduct) that relate to privacy.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Experience:

Work requires a three to five years' experience in administering a privacy program within the healthcare industry. Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and manage risks and develop appropriate internal controls.

Proficient knowledge of laws, regulations, and standards related to health care compliance. Extensive familiarity with health care relevant legislation and standards for the protection of health information and patient privacy.

Skills:

Leadership ability to work throughout the system to accomplish the objectives of the organization.

Strong interdepartmental collaboration skills: willingness to engage across teams and demonstrates the ability to lead indirectly through influence. Leadership skills necessary to promote a compliance-oriented culture within the organization.

Organizational skills both to function independently and to work closely with other professionals using a team approach.

Judgment skills to make appropriate decisions.

Ability to handle multiple demands and to respond rapidly to changing priorities.

Demonstrated problem-solving, research, analytical, presentation, facilitation, organizational, consultation and training skills.

PC-based computer skills.

A high level of integrity and trust

Demonstrated skills in collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving to achieve goals

Demonstrated skills in verbal communication and listening

Demonstrated skills in providing excellent service to customers

Excellent writing skills

LEADING AT LEGACY

Demonstrates the ability to act consistently with Legacy's Values in Action, exemplifies our core organizational values, and exhibits the leadership competencies outlined in Leading at Legacy.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled

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Expected salary:

Location: Portland, OR

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