Program Consultant, Clinical Implementation

Overview

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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Program Consultant, Clinical Implementation in our Clinical Research Services department.  

 

This position can be home-based.

 

This is a full time, benefits eligible, grant funded opportunity. Current funding will expire on June 30, 2028, with the possibility of extension.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

This individual will be a clinical implementation lead for a cohort of specific markets in the national Cardiovascular Kidney Metabolic Health (CKMH) initiative. Responsible for supporting systematic assessments and improvements of clinical practice habits related to CKM syndrome, operational processes, data flow, and other related quality improvement activities. This position will also work closely with several different departments within the national office to ensure success.

 

• Provides individualized and group consultation, resources, and specific troubleshooting to support clinical change management and quality improvement.
• Provides consultation, direction, and support through learning collaboratives/cohorts to identify strategies for improving outcomes related to evidence-based approaches for CKMH care.
• Works with health system participants to assess and establish health system interdisciplinary teams.
• Develops clinical decision support tools and collaborates with clinicians and other healthcare professionals to implement systematic efforts in improving care.
• Works with inpatient and outpatient clinical care teams to address barriers to guideline adoption and enhance clinical workflows for improved patient outcomes.
• Works closely with the designated market team to develop program implementation and quality improvement strategies that align with initiative objectives.
• Builds relationships with health system and site care teams and initiative volunteers. Collaboratively facilitates learning cohort meetings in coordination with volunteers and staff partners.
• Utilizes the Association’s registries for inpatient and outpatient care to monitor key metrics for trends, impact of interventions, and improvements in patient outcomes. Supports users in understanding key initiative clinical measures and their application within the registry tools.
• Responsible for monitoring progress, sharing solutions, and seeking additional expertise and resources as needed.
• Serves as point person for ongoing resources needed by hospitals and clinics to sustain knowledge (via online education, articles, etc.).
• Responsible for developing market-level and national collections of health system activations, process changes, and health outcomes to monitor and evaluate impact.
• Communicates regularly with Senior Program Consultant, Clinical Implementation, to assure tasks are completed according to the grant timeline.
• Works with cross-functional teams to build buy-in and ensure grant deliverables are met.

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Three (3) years of relevant experience.
• Skilled in translating clinical content for non-clinical audiences and speaking to a variety of audiences.
• Skilled in interpreting data to understand trends and iterate program delivery.
• Clinical knowledge/experience working with clinical practice guidelines and patient engagement and adherence strategies.
• Quality improvement knowledge/skills regarding various methodologies (e.g. Lean Six Sigma, PDSA) and comfort analyzing data for performance improvement opportunities.
• Experience in healthcare or in a public health-related organization: clinical, quality improvement, program development and systems improvement:
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