Director of Quality and Patient Safety (Lakewood/Los Alamitos) - FT Days

About the role

This leader provides leadership for patient safety and quality at UCI Health-Lakewood and UCI Health-Los Alamitos campuses. They serve as a key regional operator supporting UCI Health sites in advancing a high-reliability approach to quality, safety, and performance improvement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a critical link between strategy and execution, advancing systemwide priorities through rigorous performance management, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain system standards to minimize patient harm through the implementation of systems that create a culture of safety, proactively identify risk, encourage adverse event reporting, and analyze safety events and near misses.

Requirements

• Track record of effective, team-oriented working relationships with physicians, nurses, and other health professionals.
• Outstanding negotiation, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Outstanding listening, interpersonal relationship building, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in healthcare quality improvement and patient safety.
• Exceptional level of professionalism, discretion, and the ability to work on highly sensitive and confidential projects.
• Bachelor's Degree in related field.
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously with demonstrated ability to complete projects successfully on time and within budget.
• 7+ years of experience in healthcare quality and patient safety with demonstrated ability in design, implementation, and sustainment of performance improvement activities in a health care setting including skillful application of continuous quality improvement and patient safety sciences.
• 5+ years of progressive administrative leadership experience in quality improvement, performance improvement, operational excellence or patient safety in an academic medical center or large, integrated, tertiary health care setting providing expert level understanding of the art and the science of quality improvement and patient safety.

Qualifications

• MSN or Masters in related field preferred.
• Experience in Lean Six Sigma as an improvement methodology preferred.
• Current Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, CPHQ or within 6 months of hire preferred.

Skills

Preferred qualifications include presentations at regional and/or national meetings focused on quality and patient safety, and experience in Lean Six Sigma as an improvement methodology.

Benefits

Total Rewards: We offer a wealth of benefits to make working at UCI even more rewarding. These benefits may include medical insurance, sick and vacation time, retirement savings plans, and access to a number of discounts and perks.

Pay

Details of pay can be found on the following page: [https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/total-rewards.php]

Schedule

Details of the schedule can be found on the following page: [https://hr.uci.edu/new-hire/schedules.php]