Quality & Safety Improvement Consultant V, ICU Clinical - Remote, Per Diem
Job Summary: In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for providing consultation and education reputed company to clinical quality and patient safety, accreditation, regulatory and licensing (AR&L), risk management, and infection prevention and control; evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing evidence-based guidelines, principles, and/or programs reputed company to area of work as well as to reduce variation in clinical practice and optimize patient outcomes; collecting, analyzing, reporting, and presenting clinical data for a variety of users including for state, federal, and local agencies; facilitating education regarding the interpretation of compliance methods reputed company preparing for regulatory reviews, the interpretation of regulatory requirements, and regional project goals; monitoring, reporting, and developing mitigation plans for reputed company occurrences which may reputed company to medical center liability adjusting to remove barriers and/or issues, as necessary; supporting the medical centers reputed company survey readiness program to maintain compliance with regulatory standards; and serving as a liaison with applicable government agencies, regulatory agencies, and other organizations. Essential Responsibilities:
- Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects reputed company; 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 reputed company assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration reputed company and across teams.
- Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to reputed company procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to reputed company effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves reputed company problems; escalates high-reputed company issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors reputed company 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.
- Develops and implements data collection and analyses to support quality improvement efforts by: conducting advanced statistical analysis for quality improvement evaluations, special projects, and other work for multidisciplinary review; investigating opportunities to improve the reporting and narrative summaries of improvements by integrating multiple utilization data reporting systems to reputed company and maintain a variety of statistical reports in a format which enables care providers to see variations in practice patterns; presenting quality improvement metric reports to demonstrate improvements and effectiveness of quality improvement programs to department and program managers; and serving as a technical expert to team members, supervisor, and key stakeholders by interpreting trends, potential errors, and other analyses, by assisting in problem resolution for data reputed company analysis, and by advising on the application of results.
- Supports in-depth and advanced quality improvement and improvement risk management efforts by: researching corrective action plan for areas of improvement identified through utilization review, clinical records audit, claim denials, member satisfaction surveys, and auditing surveys for their cost effectiveness and impact on department functioning; ensuring process improvements are compliant with established internal and external regulation requirements at the local and state level; conducting reputed company 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 proactively escalating high-risk issues and trends to appropriate entity for resolutions.
- Investigates opportunities to reputed company new and improve reputed company quality improvement performance metrics development, collection, and utilization by: researching and recommending best practices in the development of performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish improvement success; consulting with multiple stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives, to ensure development of cohesive and reachable metrics are practical, meet multidisciplinary standards, and are approved at the department level; and designing the delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives by integrating metric utilization into workflows with sound methodology.
- Facilitates the development of quality improvement initiatives by: leveraging and implementing advanced technology, methods, and tools to reputed company stakeholders capabilities for process improvements; monitoring the use of data-driven improvement principles, tools, and problem-solving methods, including Lean/Six-reputed company concepts and techniques using quality improvement metrics; and synthesizes key information and works to break down issues into logical part for the creation of milestones, detailed workplans, and documentation practices in order to create a clear, logical, and realistic plan.
- Serves as the subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations for internal and external stakeholders by: providing consultation independently on the interpretation and interaction of reputed company policies, and how they interact with the reputed company 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; fostering collaborative, results oriented partnerships to ensure compliance with regulations and improve patient safety, maintain the KP safety culture, reporting accuracy, and health outcomes and provides insight to the regulation climate; developing educational programs to reputed company awareness for changes in regulation requirement, internal concerns, and system/database usage; and anticipating issues and weighs practical and technical considerations in addressing issues and coordinates with the appropriate stakeholders to reputed company resolutions.
- Develops stakeholder development and quality performance review processes by: developing and improving the utilization and performance reviews processes by utilizing multidisciplinary criteria and guidelines, and takes a systematic approach to quality improvement; identifying performance areas of improvement for at the program, provides feedback and coaching as needed, and develops a corrective plan; presenting performance review reports at the program level to department managers; and developing the curriculum for training and educational programs reputed company to process improvement for quality improvement programs.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
- Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
- Attention to Detail
- Business Knowledge
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Group Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Dependability
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
- Drives Results
- Facilitation Skills
- Health Care Industry
- Influencing Others
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- Learning Agility
- Organizational Savvy
- Problem Solving
- Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
- Teamwork
- Topic-Specific Communication
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
- Clinical Quality Expertise
- Agile Methodologies
- Applied Data Analysis
- Business Process Improvement
- Compliance Management
- Consulting
- Development Planning
- Health Care Compliance
- Health Care Quality Standards
- Negotiation
- Project Management
- Quality Improvement
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
Minimum Qualifications:
- Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets or reputed company quality improvement (CQI) tools.
- Minimum four (4) years of experience in clinical setting, health care administration, or a directly reputed company field.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or reputed company field AND Minimum six (6) years of experience in quality, performance improvement, or a directly reputed company field OR Minimum nine (9) years of experience in quality, performance improvement, or a directly reputed company field.
- Registered Nurse License (California)
- Masters degree preferred
- ICU experience preferred
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or reputed company field.
- Health care clinical license from the practicing/applicable state (e.g., Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Pharmacist (RPh), Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, Social Worker).
PrimaryLocation : California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building E HoursPerWeek : 1 Shift : Day Workdays : Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 04:00 PM Job Schedule : Per Diem Job Type : Standard Employee Status : Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level : Individual Contributor Job Category : Quality & Safety Department : Oakland Reg - 1950 Franklin - Regional Quality Improvement - 0201 Travel : No reputed company 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 reputed company, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job