Clinical Quality Consultant-Intermediate

Responsibilities

• Assures continual performance improvement at program level while furthering the vision, values and strategies of PHS.
• Facilitates integrated quality management through collaboration with program leaders, physicians, and clinical staff.
• Serves as lead facilitator on related quality and service committees.
• Analysis and management of clinical quality data including identifying critical performance issues, trending, and benchmarking of performance at a program level.
• Engage physician leadership and individual physicians in process improvement related to quality data results.
• Collaborates with physician quality and program level medical, clinical, and operations leadership to facilitate discussions on feedback related to quality data and opportunities for improvement with program physician groups and within program itself.
• Facilitates event review and analysis, including root cause analysis.
• Supports leadership in the implementation of action plans and selection of measures of success.
• Develops and implements processes that support standardization based on established best practices, data collection, aggregation, analysis, and action planning.
• Affirms data is managed appropriately and disseminated to appropriate leadership.
• Develops and implements processes that support quality improvement initiatives by utilizing and optimizing data sources, such as registries, American Heart Association, Medicare/Medicaid, Midas, and NSQIP.
• Measure, analyzes, generates, and presents reports on healthcare processes and patient outcomes to identify and prioritize areas for improvement.
• Educate staff and physicians regarding performance improvement processes/initiatives and patient safety.
• Serves as resource regarding quality theory and practice, and recommends process modifications and practice changes to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and reliability of clinical processes and systems.
• Maintains ongoing communication with program leaders regarding status of performance measures, clinical initiatives, projects, and improvement opportunities to ensure quality outcomes and customer satisfaction.
• Leads and/or supports clinical improvement projects utilizing appropriate quality, process improvement, and project management tools.
• Quality improvement Subject Matter Expert at a program level driving clinical quality priorities through evidence based care and best practices.
• Demonstrates ability to prioritize multiple projects, meet project deadlines, and manage multiple customer relationships using work plans, timelines, and project measures for all projects.
• Serves as a resource for PHS system-wide strategies and compliance with PHS policies and standards, adopted accreditation standards and federal / state regulator requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or health or science-related field.
• 1 year quality improvement experience in a healthcare environment.
• 3 years experience in nursing or health or science-related field.
• Must complete Presbyterian quality training or Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or equivalent process improvement certification/experience within three years of employment.
• Project management, data analysis, team leading and facilitation skills required.
• Microsoft Office skills are essential.
• Additional computer skills in database, statistical process control applications, decision support systems, comparative and benchmarking skills, process mapping (Visio), and project management (Microsoft Project Manager) preferred.

Benefits

• Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
• Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
• Malpractice liability insurance
• Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
• EPIC electronic charting system

Pay

Pay Range Minimum Offer: $75,732.80
Pay Range Maximum Offer: $115,648.00

Schedule

Work Shift: Weekday Schedule
Monday-Friday (United States of America)