Lead Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Healthcare Executive

About the role

We’re on a journey to advance how health happens with technologies that support clinicians, inspire innovation, empower patients, and save lives. Our mission is to create a human-centric healthcare experience powered by unified global data. It’s a big challenge, but big challenges are what we do best. We’re already transforming some of the world’s largest health systems—helping them turn data into lifesaving decisions and better patient care. We want people just as dedicated as we are making history with the advancement of Federal Healthcare systems. If you’re excited about making healthcare more human, you’ve come to the right place.

Responsibilities

• Support the VISN and local strategic and operational quality and safety programs for our Federal client.
• Accountable for highly complex, multi-site client clinical quality and patient safety programs, and work with the client for mitigation and resolution strategies for risks proactively.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration to assist the client in managing adverse events with analysis, intervention, identification of systemic issues, and widespread communications of key learnings.
• Develop longitudinal relationships with key client executives and drive discussions concerning strategy, structure, management, and operations to support enterprise-wide leadership, and safety/quality teams to ensure that organizational wide safety and quality goals and objectives and risk reduction strategies are implemented effectively wherever appropriate while engaging stakeholders in the process.
• In collaboration with local Quality leadership, identify and prioritize local quality and performance needs to ensure they are in alignment with national standards for programs and integration into the Federal EHR workflows and processes.
• Make recommendations on EHRM data, workflows, and reports to support and operationalize local Quality Management plans.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience (Clinical licensure preferred)
• At least 7 years total combined higher education and related work experience, including:
• At least 2 years licensed health care practice, clinical consulting and/or other clinical healthcare information technology (HCIT) work experience
• At least 8 years higher education and/or additional work experience directly related to the duties of the job
• Master’s degree in Nursing, Pharmacy, or relevant degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of Project management or health care information technology (HCIT) consulting work experience
• Receipt of the appropriate government security clearance card applicable for your position

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) and/or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality
• Expertise in facilitation and management of group processes focused on systems thinking and objectively assessing and modifying workflow processes to improve safety and quality
• Expertise in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement principles and practices
• Demonstrated critical thinking, decision-making, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills
• Experience working for the Federal government in any capacity