Quality Advisor

Job Summary

Collaborates with leadership to organize, evaluate, assist, and coordinate planning and implementation of systematic, organization-wide approaches to improving outcomes, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies, and/or achieving infection prevention program goals.

Responsibilities

• Supports corporate and local strategic plans that achieve high impact and significant improvements in organizational performance by providing oversight to performance improvement, regulatory compliance components and activities, and/or infection prevention and control.
• Demonstrates the ability in problem solving, critical thinking, conflict management, and team building skills in order to ensure a productive work environment and achievement of goals.
• Utilizes and teaches process improvements as it relates to quality performance, regulatory compliance, or infection prevention.
• Serves as communication link and resource for performance improvement, infection prevention surveillance and reporting, healthcare regulations, and patient safety for departments and management throughout the organization.
• Manages data and projects, analyzes complex information, identifies patterns and essential issues, measures and evaluates the attainment of results.
• Ensures conformance to regulatory requirements, evidence-based practices, contractual obligations, and the organization's policies.
• Communicates quality and safety priorities as they relate to high reliability and value-based care.
• Analyzes data to identify areas of opportunity for improvement efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required. In lieu of education, leadership may consider an Associate’s degree and 5 years of applicable experience.
• If degree is in nursing, graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).
• Minimum of two years of experience in clinical, nursing, healthcare safety, process improvement, infection prevention, accreditation or healthcare management setting required.
• Certification in regulatory accreditation, patient safety, quality specialty (Lean Six Sigma or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality) or Infection Prevention and Control (CIC®)equivalent preferred.
• If a licensed registered nurse (RN), currently hold an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit here.

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Contact Information

To apply, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to talent@sanfordhealth.org.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet.

Drug-Free Workplace

Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.