Quality Improvement Specialist
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Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Nemours is seeking a Quality Improvement Specialist to join our Nemours Childrens Health team in Wilmington Delaware.
This position will work specifically with surgical services on quality plans improvement and prioritization of strategic improvement related to growth care delivery and excellent outcomes. RN strongly preferred with surgical quality experience.
The Quality Improvement Specialist (Q.I.S.) acts in conjunction with the Quality Improvement leaders and key Delaware Valley stakeholders to provide support for multidisciplinary teams working on quality improvement initiatives. These teams are leading a variety of quality improvement initiatives with a targeted focus on achieving results that improve key care processes and clinical quality outcomes. The position serves to support the facilitation including planning implementation and coordination ofmultidisciplinary teams and their work related to clinical quality improvement as well as the sustainment of these order to achieve the targeted results this position will coordinate identify develop promote and supports implementation projects identified by the Quality Improvement Team. This position works with leaders of the quality improvement teams to ensure deadlines and deliverables are met.
The Quality Improvement Specialist will have familiarityusing Quality Improvement methodologies tools techniques that are applied to achieve targeted and sustainable outcome improvements.
This position works under general supervision and is required to effectively apply initiative and independent judgment as part of their approach.
- Serves as a key Quality Improvement resource to support both hospital and practice wide initiatives as well as departmental quality improvement teams programs projects and initiatives. This support includes but is not limited to the following:
- Partner with department leaders & quality improvement teams to develop and advance the following: Improvement teams charters; implementation plans; timelines; milestones to effectively track deliverables; performance dashboards; change proposals and other relevant materials needed to support the teams.
- Assist in coordination preparation and planning for the projects including: conducting the necessary workshops implementation of the recommendations follow up utilizing daily management and coaching leaders throughout the project.
- Provide subject matter expertise education and consultative support.
- Conduct current state analysis for priority workflows based on performance gaps. Develop respective gap closure quality improvement plans.
- Preparation of progress reports and outcomes to key stakeholders
- Partners with the Clinical Quality Improvement Committee and the chairto support the objectives and priorities of the committee. This support includes organization of committee logistics such as: preparation of the agenda participant involvement completion of items requiring follow-up etc.
- In collaboration with the quality improvement team support the development upgrade and deliveryof quality improvement training programs and problem solving methodologies/tools to Q.I. teams and other stakeholders as needed.
- Apply appropriate quality improvement analytical tools and methodologies to identify improvement opportunities and advance rapid cycle improvement (i.e. PDSA FMEA reliability science process flow mapping dashboards utilization key driver diagrams run charts and documentation from PDSA cycles implementation etc.).
- Develop trust and effective working relationships with key stakeholders (quality and safety team infection prevention hospital and ambulatory operations).
- Additional miscellaneous duties and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time by employees supervisor.
Job Requirements
- Bachelors Degree required. Masters Degree preferred or Masters Degree may be captured within three years of movement into the position preferred.
- Minimum of three (3) years of experience in healthcare quality improvement or equivalent combination of education training and experience required.
- RN strongly preferred with surgical quality experience.
- Prior process improvement / Lean / Six Sigma project management experience required.
- If CPHQ not held currently will be required within 18 months of hire.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- Data Collection
- Food Safety Experience
- ISO 9001
- Mobile Devices
- Root cause Analysis
- Quality Systems
- OSHA
- Food Processing
- Quality Management
- cGMP
About Company
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware an ... View more
