Quality Improvement Specialist Nursing

Hours: 16 hours weekly

Location: 20 Research Place and some Remote options

Job Profile Summary 

​This role focuses on developing and implementing programs to establish, maintain, and improve patient quality care standards.  In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Performance Improvement/Quality duties: Identifies and executes performance improvement and quality opportunities across the enterprise, enabling successful transformations and driving cost savings, process and product quality, and achievement of business goals. Responsibilities also include partnering with business leaders to provide expert insight on existing processes and procedures, applies process improvement methodologies to achieve PI/Quality objectives, and builds process improvement capabilities.  A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs.  The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education.   A senior level role that requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.  Typically responsible for: managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision, coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals, resolving difficult and sometimes complex problems. 

Job Overview 

This position is responsible for gathering, integrating, analyzing, visualizing, and interpreting data from disparate data sources to support a range of organizational quality initiatives, quality performance monitoring, and performance improvement efforts. Effectively designs and manages reports, scorecards, dashboards, and benchmarking applications that assess quality performance and guide performance improvement efforts. Effectively communicates results and findings with people at all levels of the organization. 

Job Description 

Minimum Qualifications: 

1. Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Public Health, or related field. 

2. Current licenses and certifications based on clinical expertise. 

3. One (1) year of clinical experience with exposure to performance/quality improvement. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

1. Master’s degree in Nursing, Public Health, or related field. 

2. Three (3) years of clinical experience with exposure to performance/quality improvement. 

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list.  Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned. 

1. Develops, designs, and maintains quality and patient safety dashboards for clinical leaders and other key stakeholders.  

2. Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets, using data to locate and define new improve