Quality Improvement Specialist Sr/UKHC

Department: Performance Services | Location: Lexington, KY | Full-time staff position

About the role

UK Healthcare is seeking a Quality Improvement Specialist Senior to apply industrial and systems engineering principles to improve health care delivery and transform UKHC into a High Reliability Organization (HRO) and learning health system that optimizes quality, value, and safety.

Responsibilities

• Utilize lean principles or other change management methods (e.g., Six Sigma, ISO 9000) to provide direction and vision for identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Manage healthcare projects through the entire project life cycle.
• Collaborate with clinician champions and key project stakeholders to facilitate and lead project teams through complex and ambiguous situations.
• Perform performance and quality improvement, project facilitation, and project management.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of related experience.
• Healthcare or equivalent leadership experience with a proven track record of success in organizational performance improvement efforts.
• Occasionally lift, push, and/or pull objects weighing up to or over 50 lbs.
• Stand or walk with objects weighing up to 10 lbs.
• Regularly sit at a computer workstation for extended periods and perform tasks with repetitive motions (e.g., typing).
• Occasional job-related travel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in industrial or systems engineering or a related field.
• Extensive background in performance and quality improvement, specifically within a large health system or corporation.

Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

The ideal candidate will exceed the minimum requirements and have supervisory responsibilities.

Pay

$62,400–111,634/year

Schedule

Primarily Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM; as an exempt-level position, some evenings, nights, weekends, and/or holidays may be required to meet departmental business needs.