Performance Improvement Specialist

3000 Montefiore Medical Center; United States; On-site; USD 92,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The Montefiore Center for Performance Improvement seeks a Performance Improvement Specialist to support standardized methods across the health system, leading teams through project design, execution, and sustainability. This role emphasizes teaching, facilitating and coaching quality initiatives across departments.

Collaborating with clinical and administrative leadership, you will apply performance methodologies with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver measurable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Certification in IHI's Model for Improvement, Lean Healthcare/TPS, and/or Six Sigma required.
• Three years’ healthcare experience a must.

Responsibilities

• Train, coach, and mentor Montefiore Health System teams to undertake process and performance improvement initiatives from project chartering & design, execution/implementation, and measurement.
• Facilitate the use of IHI, six sigma/process improvement methodologies for the design or redesign of care delivery processes.
• Effectively work and collaborate with system quality leadership, clinicians, and administrative colleagues alike as a representative of the Center for Performance Improvement.
• Demonstrate strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, along with managing timely deliverables.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

City/State: Yonkers, New York

Grant Funded: No

Department: NPG - Performance Improvement

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: MON-FRI

Scheduled Hours: 8:30 AM-5 PM

Scheduled Daily Hours: 8.5 HOURS

Pay Range: $92,000.00-$115,000.00

Position Summary

The Performance Improvement Specialist is responsible for supporting The Montefiore Center for Performance Improvement which serves as a centralized resource to facilitate adoption of a standardized approach to performance improvement and quality improvement across the Montefiore health system. This position supports the efforts and goals of the Center for Performance Improvement which are to educate, standardize and connect people working on shared quality initiatives. This includes teaching, facilitating and coaching quality/performance improvement initiatives. Leading healthcare teams through process improvement activities including project design, project execution/implementation, and sustainability strategies. The individual must be knowledgeable regarding performance methodologies and improvement in science. In addition, the individual must be able to interact, work, and collaborate with clinical /administrative leadership and associates across the organization. Strong logical, analytic, and deductive reasoning skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Train, coach, and mentor Montefiore Health System teams to undertake process and performance improvement initiatives from project chartering & design, execution/implementation, and measurement.
• Facilitate the use of IHI, six sigma/process improvement methodologies for the design or redesign of care delivery processes.
• Effectively work and collaborate with system quality leadership, clinicians, and administrative colleagues alike as a representative of the Center for Performance Improvement.
• Demonstrate strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, along with managing timely deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelors required, Masters preferred
• Certification in one or more of the following: IHI's (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) Model for Improvement, Lean Healthcare/TPS (Toyota Production Systems), and/or Six Sigma Required.
• Three years’ work experience Healthcare experience a must!
• Masters preferred, clinical background is helpful but not required.

Montefiore Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Notes

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Since its inception in 1884, Montefiore’s mission has been to heal, to teach, to discover and advance the health of the communities we serve. Montefiore's state-of-the-art facilities include the internationally-recognized Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and our Notable Centers of Excellence - Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation. Combined with a growing number of locations for primary and specialty care throughout the Bronx and Westchester County, Montefiore is the ideal organization to apply and hone your expertise.

• An assortment of insurance products and discount programs through Voluntary Benefits.
• Check out our comprehensive benefits available to you when you join our outstanding team!
• To heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve.
• To be a premier academic medical center that transforms health and enriches lives.

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