High-level Disinfection Quality Sr. Project Manager (Local)

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention

Job Summary:

The HLD Project Manager will oversee and manage sites and projects specific to the chemistries that they oversee as Subject Matter Experts. The Sr. Project Manager will support sites across all the VUMC enterprise including Adult, Peds, Regional, and Ambulatory sites.

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Documentation updating and creation:

• Revises and updates on-line course work, competencies, etc. based on departmental changes that are in line with new regulations.

• Help facilitate the creation of new policies, protocols, or procedures as demanded by new rules, guidelines, standards, or make recommendations for needs.

• Assist with development and implementation of scenario-based learning programs for high level disinfection and instrument reprocessing.

• Revises and updates on-line course work, competencies, etc. based on departmental changes that are in line with new regulations.

Compliance Validation:

• Creation or addition practice changes to standard operating procedures or development of guidelines to support work.

• Assist with HLD reprocessing documentation compliance.  

• Perform site visits with detailed practice audits to ensure adherence to policy.

• Develop detailed action plan for sites that fail to meet compliance.

• Partner with site leaders to facilitate improvement initiatives, to address non-compliant elements.

• Education, training, and competency to be completed to audit compliance.

• Auditing of practice changes post implementation to remove sites from action plan.

HLD Oversight and Support:

• Conducts and incorporates an annual needs assessment for competency of staff. Assesses the competency and evaluates the proficiency of the of staff performing high-level disinfection practices.

• Facilitate meeting with stakeholders to evaluate impact to operations when implementing practice changes.

•  Develop goals, risk assessments, & SBARs for special request initiatives.

• Outline the task associated with the project and oversees and manages status of project items to project completion.

Preferred skills, education, certifications in addition to VUMC’s minimum requirements?

• Preferred but not required, HLD experience specifically with Medivator, OER, Steris. General project management skills. Experience in strategic planning and implementation based on regulations and standards. Certifications: PMP, SGNA, CPHQ.  

This position is eligible for hybrid work from home option. This position does require some travel to sites (perform onsite assessments, training, risk assessments. etc.) There will be occasions where they can work from home.

About the Department:

The Department of Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention (QSRP) equips and empowers Vanderbilt Health faculty and staff at our Main Campus, Regional Hospitals and Ambulatory Divisions to offer care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient and patient-centered. We are focused on providing high-quality care through doing the right thing for our patients to reach desired health outcomes, while also preventing errors or adverse events and reducing risks 

The various teams within QSRP foster knowledge sharing to extend best practice use, reduce variability and facilitate improvements in outcomes throughout our health system and strengthening Vanderbilt Health’s mission of personalizing the patient experience through our caring spirit and distinctive capabilities through our QSRP Strategic Plan.

Position Shift: Days

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