Quality & Operational Improvement Engineer - Quality Improvement Program

The University of Iowa; Iowa City (IA); Presencial; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

The University of Iowa is seeking a Quality & Operational Improvement Engineer for the Quality Improvement Program at UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown campus. The role focuses on applying continuous improvement methodologies to plan, implement, and evaluate patient safety and quality operations across the organization.

Responsibilities include leading committees, reviewing safety events, driving cross-functional collaboration, and coordinating accreditation activities.

Formación

• Minimum 3 years quality hospital experience.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and report metrics.
• Professional experience fostering a welcoming and respectful work environment.

Responsabilidades

• Establish agenda topics for the Quality Improvement Committee (QICHMS).
• Review safety events and ensure proper categorization and follow-up documentation.
• Lead through change and collaborate with hospital leadership across levels.
• Coordinate activities with the Environment of Care rounding and accreditation teams.
• Serve as campus lead for DIAL surveys and coordinate survey logistics.

Descripción del empleo

Quality & Operational Improvement Engineer - Quality Improvement Program

This position is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and/or evaluating patient safety principles and practices throughout UI Health Care Medical Center Downtown (MCD) campus. This position ensures health services are delivered effectively and efficiently. This position is involved in planning, organizing, and evaluation of quality operations as well as providing a planned, systematic approach to identifying, designing, measuring and monitoring patient safety .

This position drives transformational change by applying continuous improvement methodologies, leveraging data-driven decision-making, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to address quality needs while ensuring alignment withorganizationalpriorities and strategic objectives. Through effective leadershipandinfluence, this rolecultivates an organizationalculture that embracescontinuous improvement,accountability, innovation, and measurable results.

Skills, Duties and Responsibilities

• In collaboration with council chair, establishes agenda topics for the monthly Quality Improvement Committee of the Hospital Medical Staff (QICHMS)
• Maintains the highest standards of confidentiality, professionalism, ethical conduct, and discretion in the management of sensitive organizational information.
• Reviews all safety events that attribute to clinical areas of responsibility and other areas as needed/appropriate. Ensures events are categorized correctly and have the correct level of harm assigned. Ensures reviewers provide appropriate incident report follow up documentation in the system prior to closing out an event.
• Leads effectively through change, demonstrating flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to anticipate and respond to evolving organizational, regulatory, and healthcare environments.
• Engages in MCD committee and workgroup activities and cultivates strong working relationships with MCD’s local leaders to help support quality and safety efforts in a matrixed organization.
• Considers both the importance of systemization and intentional variation when considering the community hospital into larger system-wide planning and policies.

Manages high harm event reviews that attribute to clinical areas of responsibility and other clinical areas as needed/appropriate.

Leads Patient Care and Safety committee as well as the accreditation committee.Presents pertinent data and education to leaders, providers and staff.

Participates in all Environment of care rounding bi-monthly and as needed.

Serve as the campus lead for DIAL surveys, coordinating MCD survey logistics, facilitating document requests, and partnering with the system Accreditation Services team on onsite survey activities, survey response, and plans of correction.

Monitors organization quality and safety performance data, collaborating with appropriate leadership to define and execute action plans to address performance gaps

Leads through influence and collaboration, effectively communicating with and engaging stakeholders across all levels of the organization to achieve shared goals and sustainable results

WECARE Core Values:

Welcoming: We have an environment where everyone has a voice that is heard; that promotes the dignity of our patients, trainees, and employees; and allows all to thrive in their health, work, research, and education.

Excellence: We achieve and deliver our personal and collective best in the pursuit of quality and accessible health care, education, and research.

Collaboration: We collaborate with health care systems, providers, and communities across Iowa and the region as well as within our UI community. We believe teamwork—guided by compassion is the best way to work.

Accountability: We behave ethically, act with fairness and integrity, take responsibility for our own actions, and respond when errors in behavior or judgment occur.

Respect: We create an environment where every individual feels safe, valued, and respected, supporting the well-being and success of all members of our community.

Empowerment: We commit to fair access to research, health care, and education for our community and opportunities for personal and professional growth for our staff and learners.

Supervision Received:

General supervision is received from the Director and the Chief Quality Officer in the Quality Improvement Program.

Minimum 3 years quality hospital experience

Demonstrated experience collaborating with department and organization leadership including interpersonal skills necessary to build effective relationships within all levels of the organization.

Demonstrates strong executive presence, written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.

Professional job-related experience fostering or promoting a welcoming and respectful work environment where people of all backgrounds and perspectives feel welcomed and appreciated.

Possess ability to analyze complex data and report metrics.

Desirable Qualifications:

Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare outcomes and Performance Improvement methodology experience

Advanced analytical skills necessary for the evaluation of complex data sets.

Experience working in an academic healthcare environment is strongly desired.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days.This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check.

Professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

This position is not eligible for University of Iowa sponsorship for employment authorization.

For additional questions, please contact Jessica Lanham at [e-mail].

Additional Information

• Classification Title: Qual & Op Improv Engineer
• Appointment Type: Professional and Scientific
• Schedule: Full-time
• Work Modality Options: On Campus

Equal opportunity employer

The University of Iowa is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment free from discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth and related conditions), disability, genetic information, status as a U.S. veteran, service in the U.S. military, sexual orientation, or associational preferences.

Persons with disabilities who need assistance or accommodations with the application or interview process may contact University Human Resources/Faculty and Staff Disability Services, [phone] or [e-mail] . For jobs in UI Health care, please contact UI Health care Leave & Disability Administration at 319-356-7543 .