Quality Improvement Specialist

4 weeks ago


Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Commonwealth of Virginia Full time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Quality Improvement Coordinator to join our team at the Commonwealth of Virginia. This role will be responsible for identifying gaps in best practice implementation and outcomes for various demographic subgroups of our patient populations and leading quality improvement initiatives to close these gaps.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provides effective project management and leadership to ensure completion of UVA Health Children's Health Equity/Quality projects and programs to meet goals and strategic objectives.
  • Facilitates training and education of quality and patient safety initiatives for Children's Hospital staff and affiliated team members.
  • Supports data collection, chart abstraction, and support for various registries, projects, and benchmarking organizations.
  • Serves as a subject matter expert and liaison between UVA Children's clinical and administrative teams and external registries, benchmarking organizations, and peers at other children's hospitals.
  • Clinical expertise: demonstrates clinical expertise in specific patient population(s) related to projects managed.
  • Technical execution: demonstrates technical execution in collection, verification, and analysis of data. Knowledgeable in basic quality improvement and project management methodologies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, etc.
  • Leadership & Training/Development: provides leadership and training/development to project team members.
  • Communication & Interpersonal Skills: communicates effectively with all levels of internal and external personnel. Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to translate clinical and analytic information to varied audiences for actionable response.
  • Professionalism: well-organized, able to prioritize and manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously. Forward-thinking, personally motivated, and strong attention to detail.

Requirements:

  • Graduate of an accredited program of clinical specialty; i.e. RN Radiography Pharmacy Social Work or Therapy Services. RN preferred.
  • 3 years of clinical quality or regulatory experience required; clinical quality or regulatory experience in transplant services preferred.
  • Must hold current License of Specialty area. RN license preferred.

Physical Demands:

  • Job requires sitting for prolonged periods; repetitive motion: (computer work). Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; attention to detail and ability to write legibly.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The Commonwealth of Virginia, including the UVA Health System, is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.



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