Health Care Compliance Officer - Registered Nurse (Home Health, and Hospice)

Job Summary

Make a broader impact on healthcare standards! We are looking for Registered Nurses to help our Department drive regulatory compliance. If you have an eye for detail and want a stake in protecting public health interests within the state of Arizona, we invite you to join our team.

Job Duties

• Assisting with or determining the issuing of licenses to licensed facilities and providers, and maintaining current licenses by ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Conducting initial and annual recertification inspections of health care institutions regulated by the Department to determine compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Reviewing quality systems by tracking documents, corrective actions, and other quality data.
• Conducting investigations of the operation of a licensed facility or provider upon receiving a complaint or of an unlicensed facility.
• Performing services that need regulation.
• Corresponding with the regulated community or regulatory bodies.
• Responding to technical questions from licensees.
• Developing standards and participating in rulemaking.
• Performing, assisting, or reviewing detailed investigative or inspection reports.
• Formulating statements of deficiencies and correspondence regarding changes in the status of a licensee’s License or other types of legal orders.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs)

• Knowledge Of: Arizona Administrative Code and Arizona Revised Statutes related to licensed facilities and providers.
• Good understanding of facility management and operational concepts.
• Specialized procedures.
• Performance Management (PM), and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Lean methodologies.
• Skill In Review and reading/interpretation of professional literature and regulations.
• Requires high level of oral and written communication, analytical review, interpersonal relationships, active listening, organizational, evaluation, repetition, education/training.
• Ability To Change priorities as issues arise, problem solving (root cause).
• Work independently.
• Perform reviews.
• Analyze analytical data, reporting, and evaluation of analyst qualifications providing compliance data.

Pre-Employment Requirements

• Must have a driver's license and ability to travel statewide.
• Must possess a valid level one fingerprint clearance card issued pursuant to A.R.S. 41-1758.07 or must apply for a level one fingerprint clearance card within 7 working days after beginning employment.
• Associate’s degree, with experience working in a licensed or regulated setting, or experience working for a regulatory agency.

Benefits

• Affordable medical and dental insurance plans.
• Paid vacation and sick time.
• Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
• 10 paid holidays per year.
• Wellness program and plans.
• Life insurance.
• Short/long-term disability insurance.
• Defined retirement plan.
• Award winning Infant at Work program.
• Credit union membership.
• Transit subsidy.
• ADHS Student Assistance Pilot Program

Contact Us

• The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer.
• Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by emailing virginia.hassard@azdhs.gov.
• Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.
• DHS is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.