Advanced Practice Nurse (APC) Clinical Quality & Risk Manager

Anticipated closing date: 2/28/2025

• Responsible to: Director of Clinical Quality & Risk Management
• Schedule: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. Full-Time
• Hybrid: 30% onsite 70% remote

Compensation Starting at:

• Position Salary Range $ 109,315.67 - $ 138,477.81 Per Year
• Starting Pay Although our full pay range is included above, the budgeted hiring range for this position is  $ 109,315.67 - $ 123,896.74 Per Year.
• This position is salaried, exempt.
• A Generous Benefits Package valued at over $16,000
• A predictable schedule

The Objective: Working in close collaboration with the Regional Advanced Practice Manager, the Regional Operations Manager and other key teams, you will ensure that care provided to patients at your assigned health centers is of the highest quality, and clinical evidence and practice guidelines, delivered in a cost-effective manner. You will implement and manage an integrated risk evaluation and mitigation program for your health centers and ensure compliance with the requirements of regulatory, accrediting, and funding bodies

Success:  You will know you are successful when you are working collaboratively with other departments to ensure the affiliate provides market-leading, evidence-based, cost effective sexual and reproductive health care with a low risk profile and high patient and staff satisfaction. Success is measured against benchmarks for quality indicators, key performance indicators, performance objectives and key results.

Snapshot:  The role is mostly remote and partially based in our health centers, requiring local travel a few times a month and less frequent travel regionally with occasional overnight stays. Most of the work involves obtaining and analyzing data from direct observations of health center operations and clinical practice, audits, chart reviews, incident reports and other sources to monitor the quality of care, identify exposures to risk, and to apply these data to develop and implement quality improvement and risk mitigation programs at your health centers and throughout the affiliate. Approximately one-third of your time will be spent interacting with patients, clinicians, support staff, and other leaders in our health centers throughout Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada and virtually. You may provide direct patient care for up to 20% of your full-time equivalent. The remainder of your time will be devoted to adding and expanding clinical services, launching new initiatives, supporting change management, and other special projects. The CQR Manager will be assigned to a specific regional group of health centers but will also be called upon to support health centers outside of their region and the affiliate at large.

Qualifications:   

• Advanced practice nurse (NP, CNM, or CNS) or physician (MD/DO) with an active license to practice in Colorado, New Mexico or Nevada, and eligible for licensure in all three states as well as Wyoming.
• Basic Life Support certification
• Master’s Degree or Doctoral degree in nursing, medicine, or a relevant health care field.
• 2-5 years of clinical practice as an advanced practice professional or physician in a relevant field
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Prior experience in nursing professional development or health care education is preferred
• Experience or working knowledge of Just Culture in healthcare.
• Prior leadership experience or experience as an educator, or risk manager
• Ability to represent management and drive agency priorities forward
• Experience with database management, project management, data collection and analysis or research
• Ability to travel across our region to assigned health centers several times per month.

Key Approaches to the Work:  

• Relationship-builder
• Effective Communicator
• Effective Project Manager
• Analytical with outstanding judgement
• Equity and Inclusion Champion 

Primary Areas of Responsibility/Essential Functions:  

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation: You are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of systems to recognize, prioritizing and manage the risks and uncertainties of clinical care at your assigned health centers that can affect the organi