Manager – Clinical Quality Improvement, Radiology – Full Time

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
Plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates the work of team members. Leads and coordinates efforts to ensure that process, performance, and continuous quality improvement programs, projects, and initiatives in assigned areas are developed and managed using a data-driven focus that sets priorities for improvements aligned to Quality and Safety strategy as well as focused aligned on improving ongoing operational and progam efficiencies and effectiveness and minimizing/eliminating waste/variation for sustained high-value healthcare delivery.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Manages the program, providing strategic direction, and collaborates with internal resources, consultants, auditors, electronic systems, and physician champions.
• Performs supervisory functions for the assigned program by interviewing and recommending or hiring new staff members; providing or arranging for training of subordinates; evaluating subordinates’ performance; and recommending or initiating personnel actions such as promotions, transfers, or disciplinary action to ensure adequate and competent staffing.
• Builds, directs, manages, and ensures implementation and effectiveness of assigned process, performance, continuous quality improvement programs, projects, and initiatives.
• Implements a performance management and improvement process that leads to a positive and measurable impact on the health care system. Coordinates with the Quality Safety and Healthy Equity Department’s performance and quality initiatives to ensure alignment and optimal use of resources.
• Researches and designs appropriate performance and quality training. Coordinates performance management and quality improvement capacity building for all levels of management and employees.
• Establishes a continuous performance and quality improvement effort and monitoring and reporting system. Regularly reports the status of performance and quality improvement efforts and impacts.
• Collaborates on the design of the information technology infrastructure required to support a health care system-wide performance and quality improvement system. Ensures needed data is collected on a timely basis, regular reports on progress are distributed, and makes recommendations for future improvements based on the data.
• Stays abreast of developments in the Performance Improvement and Quality Improvement field. Searches out best performance and quality improvement practices, making higher management aware of them and suggesting areas where they could be implemented.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a work-related field/discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a work-related field is preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• Five (5) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience within a large acute care hospital or health care system in one or more of the following areas: • Patient Safety • Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement • Value-Based Care • Regulatory, Accreditation and Licensing • Clinical experience, such as Radiology Technologist (RT) or Nursing

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of and ability to apply the principles and practices of management and supervision.
• Knowledge of accreditation, regulatory, licensing and other standards, requirements, and guidelines applicable to hospitals, specifically, Joint Commission, CMS Conditions of Participation, Title 22, California Business & Professions code, California Health and Safety Code, California Medical Association-Institute for Medical Quality, National Committee on Quality Assurance.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply multiple performance improvement methodologies and tools to projects (e.g. Lean, Six Sigma, FMEA, Poka-Yoke, 5S, SIPOC, value stream mapping, process mapping, cause and effect diagrams, prioritization and selection matrix).
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of high-value care, including familiarity with barriers to high-value care.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of value-based decision-making, health care payment/reimbursement, and delivery models.
• Knowledge of the trends, developments, and research in the medical field and with health care systems.