Clinical Quality and Safety Specialist I

Description

Location: UCHealth Leprino Building Anschutz Campus, US:CO:Aurora

Department: Clinical Quality

FTE: Full Time, 1.0, 80.00 hours per pay period (2 weeks)

Shift: Days 

Pay: $36.19 - $54.28 / hour. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience

This position's work is 100% onsite. No remote option

Quality Dept Role Highlights:

· Partners with Teams
· Partners with UCH Leadership, local units and CUSOM Departments/Divisions, to identify areas of key quality and patient safety opportunities
· Performs process analysis, identifies best practices and works with stakeholders to improve processes
· Facilitates Process Improvement and Project Management projects as needed
· Metric Focus
· Identifies trends and root causes to target interventions to drive outcomes towards the top 10th percentile
· Measures, analyzes and facilitates improvement in outcome and process metrics. Identifies areas of opportunity in partnership with clinical experts
· Collaborative Case Review (CCR)
· Partners with committee chairs in establishing trigger lists and meeting structure
· Reviews and triages cases for clinical review
· Promotes use of Just Culture
· Supports a multidisciplinary approach of clinical review
· Agile MD Pathways
· Assists in the curation of standard care pathways to reduce care variation
· Builds pathways into AgileMD Software
· Links orders within pathways in EHR

Summary:
Participates in activities related to patient safety and quality programming. Measures, analyzes, and facilitates improvement in clinical performance and outcomes. Investigates occurrence reports and analyzes safety and quality trends.

Responsibilities:
Understands key clinical quality and patient safety measures. Promotes the use of appropriate measures for clinical and operational services.
Facilitates components of patient safety programs, incorporating industry best practices, and ensuring regulatory requirements are met.
Helps identify priorities for implementation of performance improvement plans related to quality metrics and patient safety opportunities.
Provides support to clinical and operational teams.
Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment and take appropriate action.
Requirements: (Must hold clinical licensure in one of the following jobs)
· Registered Nurse
· Occupational Therapist - State Licensed
· Licensed Physical Therapist – State
· Licensed Speech Language Pathologist
· Pharmacist
· Physician Assistant
· Nurse Practitioner
· Respiratory Therapist-State

• • Bachelor’s degree relevant clinical field.
  • State licensure as Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Speech Language Pathologist, Respiratory Therapist, Pharmacist, Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner.
  • 2 years of relevant clinical experience.
  • Preferred: Quality improvement or patient safety experience.

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  • Wellness benefits
  • Full suite of voluntary benefits such as identity theft protection and pet insurance
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