Clinical Specialist - Regulatory

If you think your skills, experience and aspirations make you a good match for this position, we encourage you to apply. This position may be filled anywhere in the United States

 

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Clinical Specialist - Regulatory provides healthcare regulatory expertise directly to the client and the Yellow Brick project team. This role provides relevant experience and expertise with regulations and standards to help ensure facilities comply with local, state, and federal regulations. Working closely with the client and assigned Yellow Brick team members, the Regulatory Specialist oversees regulatory requirements and supports the team. The Regulatory Specialist encourages growth among team members and provides opportunities for professional development.

 ABOUT WORKING HERE

 HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Clinical Specialist - Regulatory provides healthcare regulatory expertise directly to the client and the Yellow Brick project team. This role provides relevant experience and expertise with regulations and standards to help ensure facilities comply with local, state, and federal regulations. Working closely with the client and assigned Yellow Brick team members, the Regulatory Specialist oversees regulatory requirements and supports the team. The Regulatory Specialist encourages growth among team members and provides opportunities for professional development.

Regulatory Expertise and Compliance

• Ensure adherence to local, state, and federal regulations, including safety codes and healthcare-specific standards, and provides relevant knowledge, experience, and expertise to Yellow Brick core team and clients.
• Serve as an advisor and provide expert guidance on healthcare regulations, standards, and best practices to improve compliance, patient safety, quality of care, and efficiency.
• Lead complex, high-profile and/or high-risk healthcare facility regulatory projects successfully.
• Research regulatory requirements on topics and concerns raised by the Yellow Brick team and project teams and provide regulatory requirements and recommendations for compliance.
• Develop and implement compliance plans, licensing plans, regulatory strategies, and training programs for healthcare staff.
• Coordinate, lead, and participate in Mock Surveys, Human Resources file audits, Medical Staff file audits, document reviews of Policies & Procedures, Scopes of Services and other key documents, and formal review/comment of project design plans for regulatory and compliance issues identification.
• Independently lead the planning and execution of multiple healthcare facility transitions and activation regulatory projects, including new facility openings, expansions, relocations, and renovations.
• Manage project budgets and forecast each month’s project hours and expenses, proactively managing peak resource use and distributing across multiple months as appropriate.
• Develop and manage comprehensive project plans, timelines, and schedules related to the project, existing work, and resources at Yellow Brick and coordinate updates based on competing priorities.
• Track and submit project deliverables, ensuring deliverables adhere to quality standards and contractual timeframes.
• Support events and project activities such as Tabletop exercises, workflow planning, Dress Rehearsals, and patient moves.
• Identify licensing and regulatory activities/actions required for each project, including initial licensing requests for new buildings/spaces/services, bed additions/deletions or suspensions, changes of use/services/spaces, relocations, closures, expansions/additions to services, reports of changes, change of ownership, and change of administrators.
• Assemble and review pertinent Regulatory Resource Materials for projects, including Title 22, Title 24 CA Uniform Building Code, TJC Accreditation standards, CDPH All Facilities Letters, AAAHC, CAP, AAMI, ASHRAE, ANSI, and CMS Conditions of Participation.