Program Manager Patient Experience - Patient Relations

Direct Jobs; Texarkana (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CHRISTUS Health in Texarkana is seeking a Program Manager of Patient Experience to lead initiatives that improve patient satisfaction and care delivery. You will analyze patient engagement surveys and partner with directors, managers and frontline staff to drive behavior change, process improvements and environment changes across the hospital.

The role does not have direct reports but requires strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills to deliver measurable improvements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience required.
• 3 years of education, customer service, or process improvement experience required.
• Experience in leading and managing multi-functional teams to improve processes is desirable.
• Experience in healthcare setting required.

Responsibilities

• Meets expectations of the OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Manages the overall hospital program to achieve excellent patient experience; analyzes surveys and works with leadership to achieve outcomes.
• Collaborates with departments to implement initiatives to improve patient experience via behavior change, process improvements, or environmental factors.
• Accountable for measurable improvements in patient experience satisfaction and attainment of CHRISTUS targets.
• Provides education to staff on service recovery and customer service.
• Leads and participates in multi-disciplinary teams managing patient experience initiatives.
• Demonstrates organizational agility to keep initiatives moving forward.
• Facilitates patient experience with hospital and unit-level action plans.
• Presents to audiences from frontline education to hospital leadership.

Skills

Customer service

Process improvement

Healthcare experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

CPXP certification preferred

Job description

Description

Summary:

In a High Reliability Organization, the Program Manager of Patient Experience is responsible for the implementation of initiatives to drive behavior change, process improvement, and environment changes based on patient experience data, to optimize care delivery, and achieve best-in-class patient satisfaction. The Program Manager will utilize data from patient engagement surveys, to implement process improvement in the hospital to meet national metric benchmarks for patient experience in the hospital. This role does not have direct reports.

Responsibilities:

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
• Manages the overall hospital program to achieve excellent patient experience in all areas; utilizes improvement programs based on identified patient experience needs; analyzes and interprets surveys? works with directors, managers, and front line Associates to achieve desired outcomes; reports regularly at departmental meetings, hospital and medical staff committees and service lines.
• Works in collaboration with departments in developing and implementing initiatives designed to improve the patient experience either through behavior change, process improvement or environmental factors.
• Accountable for making measurable improvements in patient experience satisfaction measures and achievement of CHRISTUS targets and goals with respect to patient opinion and services.
• Provides education to staff on service recovery and customer service.
• Leads and participates in multi-disciplinary teams to manage initiatives related to patient experience.
• Demonstrates organizational agility to keep patient experience initiatives moving forward.
• Facilitates patient experience with hospital and unit based action plans.
• Presents to various audiences ranging from patient experience modules for Associates to presentations for hospital leadership.
• Works with evidence based and HRO performance improvement techniques to proactively implement systems (people, processes, and technology) to enhance the customer?s experience.
• Must have excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and listening).
• Must have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

Education/Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience required

Experience

• 3 years of education, customer service, or process improvement experience required
• Experience in leading and managing multi-functional teams to improve processes
• Experience in using both qualitative and quantitative consumer information to drive customer satisfaction
• Experience in healthcare setting required

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications

• Certified Professional in Patient Experience (CPXP) preferred

Work Schedule:

8AM - 5PM Monday-Friday

Work Type:

Full Time