Quality and Patient Safety Advisor (Tullahoma, TN – Local/Hybrid)

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Organization:

Quality Assurance

Job Summary:

Serves as a quality improvement advisor to provide project management facilitation, education, and data analysis for improvement of systems and processes, under occasional guidance. Facilitates the development, implementation and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes.

(Note: this role will be locally based in Tullahoma, TN with an option of 1-2 days a week hybrid)

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Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with departments, interdisciplinary teams, and external entities, when necessary, to develop and implement strategies to improve care and processes. Navigates the organization to address and work through barriers and escalating when appropriate.

• Maintains a consistent on‑unit presence to actively partner with frontline staff and leaders, fostering real‑time collaboration, coaching, and support for quality and patient safety initiatives.

• Assists department managers or other quality improvement teams in identifying, developing and monitoring outcomes.

• Coordinates and facilitates patient safety event analysis of varying impact levels. Develops and plans for process redesign.

• Organizes, develops, and leads project teams.

• Coordinates the incorporation of quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation measures into project requests and evaluations.

• Summarizes findings to promote the prioritization of improvement initiatives. Coordinates communication of quality management initiatives to appropriate forums.

• Focuses on continuous performance improvement to support institutional quality goals.

• Provides instruction and consultation to teams within department to advance education and improve internal processes.

• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Quality experience is strongly preferred

• Clinical experience is strongly preferred

• Experience with quality and/or performance improvement data analysis is preferred

• Quality certifications such as CPPS or CPHQ are a plus

Technical Capabilities:

• Regulatory Compliance (Novice): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.

• Judgement and Decision-Making (Novice): Able to make decisions effectively and accurately in an environment which may be fast-paced or changing. Considers a wide range of alternatives, including those which may fall outside of the scope of the task at hand, before making a decision.

• Front of Room Facilitation (Intermediate): Helping people manage The information they already possess or can access to achieve a necessary result in a timely and collaborative manner. Guide The process and structures activities using a particular facilitation methodology without content knowledge or subject matter expertise.

• Healthcare Organizational Dynamics (Intermediate): Demonstrate knowledge and impact of quality, value, and patient-centered care in the current and future healthcare landscape and continuum of care

• Prioritization/ Targeted Focus (Intermediate): Distill down needed work to focus teams with limited resources on critical path, while keeping the larger picture in mind. Effectively message and focus teams on critical path in light of larger efforts.

• Data Transformation into Information (Intermediate): Create and Interpret data findings through appropriate methods of data visua