Senior Quality Specialist
Job Location:
Job Location:
Houston, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
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Posted on:
3 days ago
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Job Title: Sr. Quality Specialist
Job Type: Full Time/Permanent
Job Duration: Permanent
Location: Houston TX 77024
Must-Haves
- Licenses/Certifications: Project Management Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Robust Process Improvement certification required.
- Seven (7) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience five (5) years with a Masters degree within a large acute care hospital or health care system in one or more of the following areas: Data-driven performance improvement Quality assurance/quality improvement
- Bachelors Degree in a work-related field/discipline (i.e. public health business economics computer science nursing pharmacy) from an accredited college or university required.
- MUST HAVE HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE.
Job Description
The Senior Quality Specialist is responsible for reviewing monitoring and analyzing data to drive quality improvement that improves the delivery of safe patient care as measured by external reporting programs such as CMS Vizient Leapfrog and collaboration with senior leadership the Senior Quality Specialist leads multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams in medium- to large-scale initiatives to improve healthcare delivery patient safety accountable care and health equity.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Leads and champions the function of clinical quality effectiveness improvement patient safety utilization and health equity goals working collaboratively with physicians and staff across the system.
- Provides leadership to assigned areas including facilitation of committees or workgroups and communication of shared learnings to ensure sustainability of quality initiatives.
- Actively coaches cross-functional teams and leaders how to continuously raise the standards of excellence in quality outcomes.
- Develops and implements effective analysis research and evaluation of quality management cost and patient experience metrics key drivers processes and workflows based on best practices and evidence-based literature review synthesis.
- Works with clinical teams and Network Performance team to develop targeted interventions including care redesign where appropriate and to develop implementation plans with metrics and timelines.
- Develops standard work including evidence-based clinical pathways for complex care in collaboration with physician leaders of the clinical programs.
- Helps translate clinical pathways into Epic order sets and decision support tools in collaboration with nursing pharmacy and ISD teams.
- Conducts scholarly work in clinical effectiveness and high value care and presents and publishes the findings.
- Collaborates closely with the Technology Digital Services and Analytics team to support the definition and inclusion of key metrics into meaningful dashboards reports and data visualizations. Leverages the data and insights necessary to inform tactical planning evaluation and the improvement of projects programs and clinical operations while ensuring the validity and accuracy of the data.
- Communicates shared learnings and ensures sustainability of quality initiatives.
- Provides leadership for creating a culture of patient safety and works with various constituencies to ensure compliance to the National Patient Safety Goals.
- Provides content knowledge in the interpretation implementation and maintenance of internal and external reporting and standards requirements (e.g. USNWR MACRA Joint Commission Title 22 Leapfrog Vizient).
- Advises on the appropriate use of quality improvement tools and methodologies such as PDCA Lean Six Sigma and Statistical Process Control Analysis.
- Cultivates cross-departmental relationships to better coordinate project opportunities.
- Provides mentorship to the Quality Specialists and other MHHS leaders and staff.
- Leads multi-disciplinary and multi-department strategic quality initiatives.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Bachelors Degree in a work-related field/discipline (i.e. public health business economics computer science nursing pharmacy) from an accredited college or university required.
- Masters Degree in a work-related field/discipline (i.e. public health business economics computer science nursing pharmacy) from an accredited college or university preferred.
- Licenses/Certifications:
- Project Management Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Robust Process Improvement certification required.
Experience / Knowledge / Skills:
Seven (7) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience five (5) years with a Masters degree within a large acute care hospital or health care system in one or more of the following areas:
Data-driven performance improvement
Quality assurance/quality improvement
Value-based care
Clinical experience such as nursing or pharmacy preferred
- Epic experience preferred
- Demonstrated experience defining data requirements analyzing data and translating trends and findings into dashboards and actionable clinical performance improvement recommendations
- Proven ability to excel in high level strategy to hands-on implementation and project management as needed. Passionate about creating a more efficient effective and equitable U.S. healthcare system
- Ability to influence attention to detail project management written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency or above in Excel Tableau Minitab (intermediate level preferred)
