Clinical Quality & Data Excellence Specialist

UNC Health; Siler City (NC); Hybrid; USD 49,414 - 71,042; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Chatham is seeking a Clinical Quality Assurance Specialist to lead data validity, accuracy, patient safety, and regulatory compliance initiatives. The role blends nursing, quality, and informatics to manage data and systems, aiming to improve clinical care, documentation, and reporting for pay-for-performance programs.

The position is based at UNC Health Chatham with a hybrid schedule (onsite two days per week) and does not cover other UNC Health entities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (BSN) from a state-accredited school of professional nursing
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.

Responsibilities

• Stays current with pay-for-performance programs, government regulations, and health care system initiatives regarding medical record documentation and plan of care.
• Performs medical record abstraction for quality improvement or reporting; validates accuracy and quality documentation to ensure compliance.
• Presents results from data analysis to healthcare providers, chairs, boards, and quality initiative teams; presents on regulations and standards for documentation in medical records.
• Promotes improvement of patient care and clinical excellence in clinical information systems through collaboration with providers, analysts, and leaders.
• Provides education to healthcare providers on best practices and documentation of the medical record; collaborates on documentation for patient populations.
• Supports teams to improve care delivery and documentation and to develop processes that support clinical analytics.

Skills

Nursing

Data analysis

Quality improvement

Medical records abstraction

Regulatory compliance

Clinical documentation

Education

BSN in Nursing

Tools

Clinical information systems

Job description

UNC Health Chatham is seeking a Clinical Quality Assurance Specialist to lead data validity, accuracy, patient safety, and regulatory compliance initiatives. The role blends nursing, quality, and informatics to manage data and systems, aiming to improve clinical care, documentation, and reporting for pay-for-performance programs.

The position is based at UNC Health Chatham with a hybrid schedule (onsite two days per week) and does not cover other UNC Health entities.