Quality & Safety Improvement Consultant V, Patient Safety (KFH/HP)

About the position Responsibilities • Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. • Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. • Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. • Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. • Models team collaboration within and across teams. • Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. • Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. • Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. • Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others. • Develops and implements data collection and analyses to support quality improvement efforts by conducting advanced statistical analysis for quality improvement evaluations, special projects, and other work for multidisciplinary review. • Investigates opportunities to improve the reporting and narrative summaries of improvements by integrating multiple utilization data reporting systems to develop and maintain a variety of statistical reports. • Presents quality improvement metric reports to demonstrate improvements and effectiveness of quality improvement programs to department and program managers. • Serves as a technical expert to team members, supervisor, and key stakeholders by interpreting trends, potential errors, and other analyses. • Supports in-depth and advanced quality improvement and improvement risk management efforts by researching corrective action plans for areas of improvement identified through various reviews. • Ensures process improvements are compliant with established internal and external regulation requirements. • Conducts complex root cause analysis, failure mode and effect analysis, and other assessments in response to significant events. • Investigates opportunities to develop new and improve current quality improvement performance metrics development, collection, and utilization. • Facilitates the development of quality improvement initiatives by leveraging and implementing advanced technology, methods, and tools. • Serves as the subject matter expert for quality improvement processes and regulations for internal and external stakeholders. • Develops stakeholder development and quality performance review processes. Requirements • Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports. • Minimum two (2) years of experience with databases and spreadsheets or continuous quality improvement (CQI) tools. • Minimum four (4) years of experience in clinical setting, health care administration, or a directly related field. • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or related field AND Minimum six (6) years of experience in quality, performance improvement, or a directly related field OR Minimum nine (9) years of experience in quality, performance improvement, or a directly related field. • Registered Nurse License (California) OR Pharmacist License (California) OR Speech-Language Pathologist License (California) OR Respiratory Care Practitioner License (California) OR Physical Therapist License (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Occupational Therapist License (California) OR Doctor of Medicine License (California) Nice-to-haves • Health care clinical license from the practicing/applicable state (e.g., Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Pharmacist (RPh), Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, Social Worker). • Master's degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or related field. • Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS). Benefits • Market competitive total rewards package. • Commitment to pay equity and transparency. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job