Manager Quality Performance Improvement COPC

About the role

Responsible for coordinating, organizing, and facilitating Performance Improvement activities for assigned areas throughout the Health System. Provides the enterprise with expertise and guidance related to quality and performance improvement methodology as well as a process improvement methodology. The primary driver of performance improvement projects at all levels in the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manages cross-functional teams to ensure alignment in quality improvement strategies and priority settings related to value-based initiatives.
• Applies appropriate performance improvement methodology to drive and support performance improvement activities at all levels across the health system.
• Works with assigned departmental PICs to establish projects, metrics, standards, and dashboards, and to collect, organize, monitor, and evaluate quality, operational, and service line performance data.
• Conducts data analysis to determine performance trends in order to proactively recommend improvements and/or corrective actions.
• Serves as a resource to assigned areas on the appropriate application of QI tools, PDSA, and other performance improvement methodology and is responsible for recommending performance measures and targets for each project.
• Works with other QPS departments as appropriate to collaborate in patient care and performance improvement activities (thereby providing alternative methods of addressing issues related to compliance with standards or regulatory requirements/policies).
• Participates in other quality programs as indicated or necessary to bring about resolution (e.g., Patient Safety, Medical Records, Medication Use, Utilization Review, and Quality Review Committees, etc.)
• Maintains knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines that impact the assigned area.
• Develops effective internal controls designed to promote adherence to applicable laws, accreditation agency requirements, and federal, state, and private health plans.
• Sets, implements, monitors, and revises annual goals and objectives for the department that support the missions and objectives of Parkland.
• Selects, trains, schedules, motivates, supervises, and evaluates employees making recommendations for disciplinary actions up to and including termination, to ensure maximum utilization of individual and group capabilities.
• Ensures that assigned employees receive opportunities to further their knowledge.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, or a clinically related field of study, or business from an accredited college or university.
• Experience: Two (2) plus years of quality improvement experience in a healthcare setting to include One (1) year of managerial experience - and One (1) plus years of project management experience.

Skills

• Leadership & Talent Management: Primarily manages professional-level employees; Responsible for work and results of direct reports; Over one (1) functional area.
• Organizational Impact: Plans and establishes goals and objectives for a team of professional staff and/or one or more large teams of operational or functional staff to accomplish outcomes that have a direct impact on department results; Contributes to tactical and operational, functional, and/or business plans with short-to mid-term impact on department results (e.g., 1 to 3 years); May have budget accountability for an area of responsibility or manage elements of the budget.