Performance Improvement Advisor

Position Highlights: 

• Location: Winston Salem, North Carolina
• Full Time

What We Offer:

• Day 1 Health Coverage: Choose from either copay or HSA-eligible health insurance options with coverage starting on your first day of work. 
• Generous PTO: Accrual starts at up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters. 
• Parental Benefits: Six weeks paid birthing-mother maternity leave & four weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.
• Retirement: Up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions
• Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor’s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree. 

Job Summary:

Responsible for leading and consulting on transformational Performance Improvement initiatives and projects that accelerate the achievement of results. Provides analysis, consultation, gap assessment, team facilitation and idea generation. Accelerates dissemination of successful practices and provides recommendations for organizational continuous improvement. Delivers results in practical, significant, and measurable methods/improvements. Leads complex and large-scale Lean Six Sigma Projects.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelors degree required. Masters preferred.
• Four year's healthcare experience as demonstrated in at least one of the following: Registered Nurse, Licensed Practical Nurse, Radiology Technician, Laboratory Technician. 
• Other experience in a related healthcare business setting Four years healthcare revenue cycle performance improvement as demonstrated in at least one of the following: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Four years? healthcare technical experience as demonstrated in at least one of the following: EPIC Electronic Health Record, EPIC Prelude, EPIC Resolute, EPIC Clarity, EPIC Cogito or EPIC Cadence
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt Certified. 
• Maintains certification as required by certifying agency, such as American Society for Quality (ASQ). 
• Tableau Desktop Certification or obtain within one year of hire. 
• Maintains licensure or certification as applicable to the experience section of this job description.

What You'll Do: 

• Leads high-priority Performance Improvement projects 
• Facilitates team meetings effectively to achieve results by delineating project goals, roles, overviews, procedures, and expectations. 
• Assists other revenue cycle departments in analysis of internal data and external benchmarking data. 
• Mentors individuals both internal and external in process improvement tools, data analysis, and quality/safety initiatives. 
• Represents project teams in the Medical Center and external forums, through presentations, written reports, or other appropriate forums. 
• Promotes teamwork and overall Performance Improvement reputation and perform other duties as indicated by leadership.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

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