Managing Consultant – Quality – Surgery Improvement – Healthcare

About the role

The Clinical Quality Managing Consultant at Berkeley Research Group (BRG) specializes in improving care for patients by implementing evidence-based best practices to enhance clinical quality, operational efficiency, and care delivery. This role focuses on serving as a subject matter expert and coach for acute care hospital teams, helping hospitals drive quality and performance improvements across various clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert on hospital quality, patient safety, and evidence-based clinical practices engagements.
• Analyze and interpret clinical quality data from sources such as CMS Care Compare, NHSN, QNet, and internal hospital systems to identify performance gaps.
• Design and implement client workplans that address issues such as infection prevention, sepsis care, surgical quality, complications, mortality, and readmissions.
• Support regulatory readiness by helping hospitals understand and meet requirements related to State health departments, CMS, and other oversight bodies.
• Optimize performance on national quality scorecards, including CMS Care Compare and other public reporting programs.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for hospital leaders and frontline teams.
• Monitor progress and evaluate outcomes of improvement initiatives using quantitative and qualitative measures.
• Partner with multidisciplinary hospital leaders, including nursing, physicians, quality teams, operations, and executives, to align improvement strategies with organizational goals.
• Facilitate cross-departmental collaboration to ensure consistent adoption of evidence-based practices.
• Lead or support quality committees, workgroups, and performance-improvement teams within client hospital.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in acute care quality, hospital regulatory reporting, infection prevention, and/or hospital performance improvement.
• Bachelor’s degree required in Nursing, Public Health, Healthcare Administration, Health Information Management, or a closely related field.
• Advanced degree (MPH, MHA, MSN, MBA, or similar) preferred but not required.
• Professional certification such as CPHQ, CIC, or Lean/Six Sigma strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of CMS public reporting programs, NHSN surveillance, and QNet/QualityNet data submission preferred.
• Experienced hospital quality leader with expertise in preoperative clinic workflows, surgery operations, OR supply chain, and OR culture development.
• Adept at engaging effectively with all levels of the organization, from frontline surgery staff, surgeons, anesthesia, other medical staff, and senior executives.
• Strong understanding of public quality scorecards particularly for surgery-related metrics, surgery performance metrics, and regulatory expectations.
• Skilled in prioritization, operational alignment, and driving measurable improvements in patient readiness, surgery safety, and overall perioperative efficiency.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex quality and regulatory data.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and facilitation skills to support the hospital’s clinical and operational team.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $165,000

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead. At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe. Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world. At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen. BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.