Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Specialist
1 week ago
This is a hybrid role that combines quality and safety expertise with process improvement skills to drive clinical excellence at VCU Health. The Patient Safety and Quality Assistant will support data-driven initiatives to achieve system, service line, and care site level goals.
Key Responsibilities- Support the integration of safety and quality into the organization's fabric to achieve care targets.
- Collaborate with teams to advance the organization through learning, communication, and collaboration.
- Assist in implementing processes for engagement and teamwork.
- Support the creation of learning opportunities to advance the organization.
- Communicate effectively in multiple venues via multiple routes.
- Support collection and presentation of data to drive change and improvement.
- Utilize performance and process improvement tools.
- Implement change management methodology.
- Employ project management tactics.
- Cultivate a safe healthcare environment by promoting safe practices, nurturing a just culture, and improving processes that detect, mitigate, or prevent harm.
- Support cause analyses of any format.
- Apply high-reliability principles to improvement initiatives.
- Ensure focus remains on process-driven solutions rather than people-driven ones.
- Promote psychological safety through transparency of data and information.
- Support the evaluation and improvement of healthcare processes and care transitions to advance the safe, equitable, efficient, effective, and timely care of our diverse patient population.
- Support the integration of population health management strategies into initiatives.
- Apply a holistic approach to improvement.
- Collaborate to improve care processes and transitions.
- Support the integration of social determinants of health into initiatives to ensure health equity.
- Associate degree in Business, Management, or related field from an accredited program.
- Minimum of two (2) years of work experience in the healthcare environment with specific experience in clinical processes, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, and developing and making presentations.
- Previous experience working in a quality department, process mapping using mapping/flowcharting software, and basic knowledge of patient safety, quality improvement, or project management processes/tools.
- Previous experience as a research assistant or project coordinator.
- Previous experience coordinating or assisting with project planning and implementation.
- Basic knowledge of patient safety, quality improvement, or project management processes/tools.
Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
☒ Combination of education and experience in lieu of a degree.
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