Continuous Improvement Advisor

1 week ago


Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States Cleveland Clinic Full time

Join Cleveland Clinic Tradition Hospital's team of caregivers that provide top-quality patient care to the communities in and around Port St. Lucie. Opening its doors in 2013 and expanding in 2017, this state-of-the-art acute care facility has 177 patient rooms and offers services in a wide variety of specialties to meet community needs. You'll be supported as you follow your dreams and find where you belong, here at Tradition Hospital.

As a Continuous Improvement Advisor you will help manage large and complex improvement activities or projects, leveraging project management and continuous improvement tools to deliver results. This role partners with key Institute or Enterprise leaders to holistically manage CI activity and projects. You will also instruct and coach continuous improvement and project management at all levels of the organization. You will apply to the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model (CCIM) building and advancing capabilities of caregivers.

The Future Caregiver is someone who:

Has High-level management and leadership skills.

Has complex problem solving skills.

Is experience with conflict resolution and problem-solving.

Has written and verbal communication skills.

Has teamwork and motivational skills.

Has organizational and multitasking skills.

This is a rewarding opportunity that offers growth-oriented projects, mentorship, support, and resources. You will experience great exposure to both the institute and department leadership and have numerous opportunities for career growth. This role is mostly remote, with some meetings across different sites depending on the assigned project.

At Cleveland Clinic, we know what matters most. That's why we treat our caregivers as if they are our own family, and we are always creating ways to be there for you. Here, you'll find that we offer: resources to learn and grow, a fulfilling career for everyone, and comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, your physical and mental well-being and your future. When you join Cleveland Clinic, you'll be part of a supportive caregiver family that will be united in shared values and purpose to fulfill our promise of being the best place to receive care and the best place to work in healthcare.

**Responsibilities:**

+ Independently lead operational teams' knowledge of the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model (CCIM) including but not limited to Organizational alignment, Visual management, Problem-solving, and Standardization.

+ Creating and maintaining CCIM program efforts across the assigned area, independently

+ Leads large or complex projects leveraging advanced continuous improvement and project management tools within assigned area.

+ Teach, coach, and mentor leadership down to frontline caregivers, and any CI members as requested (CI I & IIs) on continuous improvement best practices.

+ Build capability in customers and CI team members in the form of analyzing and measuring the effectiveness of existing processes to develop sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable process improvements in moderate to large sized areas independently.

+ Ability to manage a portfolio of large improvement activities capturing quantifiable results

+ Research best practices within and outside the organization and apply learnings to assigned area

+ Can lead, train, and advise on the collection and analyzation of process data to initiate, develop and recommend practices and procedures that focus on enhanced safety, increased productivity and reduced cost.

+ Independently establishes effective working relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, and external to the organization, to achieve mutually beneficial results.

+ Ability to track and maintain success metrics alongside CI Program Director.

+ Can demonstrate flexibility and adaptability within a team.

+ Identifies the relevant need for the organization, develops and executes a plan to address this need while applying the Continuous Improvement model.

+ Assists CI I and CI II in navigating organizational politics/climate.

+ Utilizes customer orientation and ability to clearly match support tools and services to the needs of stakeholders.

+ Partnering with operational leaders to drive decision making for the success of the business.

+ Other duties as assigned.

**Education:**

+ Bachelor's Degree required

+ Master's Degree required

+ In lieu of Master's Degree, 6 years of process improvement experience or a Lean Certification may suffice

**Certifications:**

+ Project Management Professional (PMP) or Lean Certification preferred

**Complexity of Work:**

+ Demonstrate knowledge of quality tools, lean foundation elements and change management.

+ Lead data analysis sessions and speak about the drive/watch metric dashboard without assistance. Can build graphs and charts from raw data and interpret them meaningfully.

+ Display a solid understanding of core industry concepts, the state of the industry and how it applies to our work, CCHS organization and design, systems, culture, politics, key players, and core processes.

+ Can independently communicate (written/verbal/presentation) with individuals inside and outside our organization and at all levels (exec through front line) with clarity of message and effective listening capability to achieve several goals: influence, inform, understand, resolve and reduce ambiguity, etc.

+ Understands the core concepts of Lean and can utilize them to achieve dramatic results (using tools like process mapping, visual management, standard work, demand analysis, basic statistics, observation methods, VSM, Material pull, project management, control plans, FMEA, productivity management, kaizen, flow diagrams, spaghetti diagrams, fishbone diagram, cause & effect, brainstorming, 5 Whys, root cause corrective action, pareto principle, histograms)

**Work Experience:**

+ Minimum six years business or healthcare experience

+ Four-year process improvement or project management

+ Experience in transformation or change agent role within an organization engaged in a Lean transformation preferred

+ Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with all organizational levels, including senior management down to the frontline caregivers

+ Health care experience preferred

+ Demonstrated ability to teach/coach/influence/ advise leadership at all levels regarding continuous improvement principles and practices and role of leader in a continuous improvement organization

+ Has coached and trained leadership and frontline caregivers on execution of kaizen process.

**Physical Requirements:**

+ Walking, standing

**Personal Protective Equipment:**

+ Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities



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