Quality Management Consultant Nurse Coordinator

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 76,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid time off

Federal health insurance

Retirement plan

Licensure support

Job summary

The New Mexico VA Health Care System seeks a Quality Management Consultant Nurse Coordinator for its Quality and Patient Safety Service.

The RN demonstrates leadership in improving quality-of-care outcomes, collects data, monitors staff compliance with policies, and supports planning, designing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive quality management program across the Medical Center and off-site locations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates leadership to improve quality-of-care outcomes.
• Responsible for documented outcomes at the program or service level.
• Assigns responsibility for quality management program area activities.

Responsibilities

• Leads quality improvement initiatives and patient safety efforts.
• Collects data and monitors staff compliance with policies and standards.
• Supports planning, design, implementation and administration of a comprehensive quality management program across the Medical Center and off-site locations.

Job description

Quality Management Consultant Nurse Coordinator

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

The New Mexico VA Health Care System is looking for a Quality Management Consultant Nurse Coordinator for our Quality and Patient Safety Service!

Key Responsibilities

The Quality Management (QM) Consultant Registered Nurse (RN) demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The QM Consultant demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. The QM Consultant is responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level.

Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility. Program is defined as a substantial coordinated group of activities impacting patients and/or employees. The QM Consultant is assigned responsibility for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations.

The QM Consultant collects data, monitors staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards, provides reports detailing trends, and provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering, a comprehensive quality management program area. They participate in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups.

Executes the position responsibilities that demonstrate effective leadership, detailed planning, professional communication, creative and innovative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development and possess an ability to organize priorities.

The QM Consultant works in concert with leaders and others to sustain safety, modeling High Reliability Organization (HRO) practices, maintaining regulatory preparedness, and leading action plan responses to applicable findings at the service or program level. The QM Consultant performs duties directly contributing to high quality and safe patient care within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to include computer-based and in person auditing and routing.

Duties require the ability to apply specialized principles and practices to ensure a systems approach to healthcare delivery. The QM Consultant directly supports facility leadership in areas of planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of the quality program within the facility.

The QM supports accreditation readiness activities focused on standards compliance, education of staff on standards, VHA requirements, and customer satisfaction for internal and external stakeholders. Supports performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.

Assumes a supportive role in facilitating regulatory compliance for internal and external oversight bodies such as, Joint Commission (JC), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directives and Handbooks, etc), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and VHA performance measures, supporting performance improvement work, and supporting and guiding the work of committees.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm M-F Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $75834 – $136857/yr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-11-06.

How many openings are available?

There are 2 openings for this position.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.