Quality Partner

Intermountain Health; Murray (UT); On-site; USD 79,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health seeks a Quality Partner to lead performance improvement across the enterprise, focusing on quality, safety, experience and equity. You will collaborate with stakeholders to advance regulatory readiness and clinical excellence.

The role requires expertise in data analysis, project management, and change leadership to drive KPIs and standardization across Intermountain Health locations in Murray, UT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Informatics, Organizational Development, or similar field.
• Trained in improvement science (Six Sigma, Lean, or Workout and Project Management, ATP).
• Experience with change management and implementation of new processes and/or technology that enhance Quality.
• Ability to travel unplanned to Intermountain Health locations with reliable transportation.
• Strong decision-making, autonomous work, and effective communication in a healthcare enterprise setting.

Responsibilities

• Partner and consult with leaders across the enterprise to improve quality and regulatory readiness.
• Lead by influence, participate in committees, build relationships with frontline leaders, and sustain initiatives at multiple care sites.
• Provide quality subject matter expertise to drive organizational performance.
• Promote standardization to enterprise policies, processes and improvement activities.
• Retrieve and synthesize data as a tool for performance improvement and coach leaders across the organization.
• Educate and develop leaders through consultation and education design and delivery.

Skills

Quality reporting

Regulatory readiness

Data Analysis

Project Management

Process improvement

Clinical chart review

Presentation preparation

Consultation and education

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Informatics, Organizational Development, or similar field

Job description

Job Description

The Quality Partner at Intermountain Health proactively plans, implements, coordinates and collaborates with key stakeholders across the organization. This position plays a key role in improving quality, safety, experience and equity and reducing operational risk exposure by recommending, formulating, and/or effectuating enhancements to policies, procedures, and operations. Through performance improvement processes and regulatory readiness activities, the Quality Partner will advance implementation of Intermountain Health's Clinical Excellence function.

Job Description

The Quality Partner at Intermountain Health proactively plans, implements, coordinates and collaborates with key stakeholders across the organization. This position plays a key role in improving quality, safety, experience and equity and reducing operational risk exposure by recommending, formulating, and/or effectuating enhancements to policies, procedures, and operations. Through performance improvement processes and regulatory readiness activities, the Quality Partner will advance implementation of Intermountain Health's Clinical Excellence function.

This position promotes a culture of high reliability and the measurement of clinical quality, using independent judgment and subject matter expertise to identify opportunities and execute strategies for clinical performance improvement to drive enterprise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This position partners with local and enterprise leaders to operationalize and strengthen the continuous regulatory readiness program.

Essential Functions

• Partner and consult with leaders across the enterprise to improve quality and regulatory readiness
• Lead by influence, participating in key committees, building relationships with frontline leaders, and sustaining initiatives and projects at multiple care sites.
• Quality subject matter expertise as a resource to the system, driving organizational performance that is built on relationships and a shared vision of excellence in an environment of achievement and local accountability.
• Promote the proactive, comprehensive and strategic agenda of Intermountain Health that inspires caregiver engagement, inter-professional collaboration, and evidence-based practice.
• Advocate and promote standardization to enterprise developed policies, processes and improvement activities
• Retrieve and synthesize data as a tool for performance improvement activities, coach and support leaders across the organization in improving quality through consultation, education and leader development services.

Skills

• Quality reporting
• Regulatory readiness
• Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Process improvement
• Clinical chart review
• Presentation preparation and delivery
• Consultation and education design and delivery

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Informatics, Organizational Development, or similar business/health-related field. Education must be obtained through an accredited institution.
• Trained in improvement science (i.e., Six Sigma, Lean, or Workout and Project Management, ATP)
• Experience with change management with the ability to provide leadership in the adaptation and implementation of new processes and/or technology that enhance Quality.
• Demonstrated experience in a role requiring effective decision-making skills and the ability to work autonomously, communicate effectively, and manage frequent variations in workload in a healthcare enterprise/system setting.
• Ability to travel unplanned and last-minute with reliable transportation and arrive at Intermountain Health locations within a reasonable amount of time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical Degree
• Experience working in a complex health system.
• Experience with external entities that drive and support Quality approaches and standards, including government agencies, academic institutions, universities and related organizations of higher education, and other public institutions is preferred.
• Three years of experience leading successful Quality Improvement projects in clinical setting(s)

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Remain sitting, walking or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.

Location:

Intermountain Health Intermountain Medical Center

Work City

Murray

Work State

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$37.87 - $59.63

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn More About Our Comprehensive Benefits Package Here.

By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. If applying for a remote or hybrid role, this includes remote work expectations related to confidentiality, information security, work schedules, conflicts of interest, and use of company equipment. I further acknowledge that outside employment or activities may not interfere with job responsibilities or create a conflict of interest with Intermountain. Actual or reasonably perceived conflicts may be grounds for disqualification from consideration or, if hired, corrective action up to and including termination of employment.

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