Quality Patient Safety Clinical Consultant

Phoenix Children's; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Quality Patient Safety Clinical Consultant to lead quality improvement initiatives within a specialized clinical program. This dynamic role involves collaborating with clinical teams to enhance patient safety and care standards. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in performance improvement and data analysis to drive impactful changes. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to providing exceptional healthcare for children and families, where your contributions will make a significant difference in patient outcomes. This position offers a flexible hybrid work schedule, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life effectively.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of healthcare experience required, with expertise in performance improvement.
• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and improve quality and patient safety practices.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.

Skills

Patient Safety

Performance Improvement

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Change Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare or Business Administration

Master's degree in Nursing or Healthcare field

Tools

Performance Improvement tools (PI, CQI, Lean)

Data Collection and Analysis Tools

Job description

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Department: PCH-MAIN | PostTransplant BMT

Location: Phoenix

Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 8am-5pm

Category: Legal/Risk/Reg Compliance

Posting #: 925206

Employee Type: Full-Time

Position Summary

Posting Note: The Quality Patient Safety Clinical Consultant – plays a vital role in the strategic oversight and continuous improvement of the Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) program, which is jointly accredited and closely aligned with Mayo Clinic. This dynamic, hands-on role is focused on quality planning, safety monitoring, and performance improvement initiatives to uphold and advance standards in this highly specialized clinical space.

The consultant collaborates daily with multidisciplinary teams including physicians, nurses, clinical leaders, and external partners. Responsibilities include monitoring RISE safety events, gathering and analyzing data, facilitating quality and safety meetings, and supporting the introduction of new clinical products and innovations. This position is not desk-bound and requires regular, proactive engagement with clinical teams and providers. RN experience is highly preferred as the clinical experience enhances the consultants ability to facilitate strong engagement and build professional relationships with the team.

Given the complexity of the BMT program, the ideal candidate must be confident in navigating discussions with highly specialized professionals from a collaborative, peer-to-peer standpoint. Strong interpersonal skills, public speaking abilities, and a solution-oriented mindset are essential. The department is rapidly advancing, offering the opportunity to be part of impactful, forward-thinking work that influences patient safety and quality care across the institution. Flex hybrid 3/2 scheduling is an option.

This position proactively identifies and improves quality and patient safety practices by affecting care and processes at the bedside/point of care utilizing project/program management and data driven strategies and interventions. Proficient at change management methodologies including team building and facilitation, will building, and communication strategies, assisting in the coordination and aggregation of information for use by unit leadership in its decision making to focus improvement efforts.

Position Duties

• Assesses and improves care at the bedside using high reliability processes
• Assesses patient care processes for safety/risk issues using expert understanding of clinical standards of care.
• Proficient at communication, able to connect with a variety of staff in a professional manner while influencing change and behavior.
• Sets goals for areas of responsiblity and works with multidisciplinary groups to attain and sustain improvement.
• Maintains connection with the big picture while implementing at the micro level. Uses knowledge of complex adaptive systems thinking taking into account the necessary structures, processes, and organizational landscapes/dynamics impacting successful implementation.

• Expertise in Patient Safety and Performance improvement tools
• Utilizes current data sources and seeks new sources to understand complex problems.
• Conducts root cause analysis, risk assessments, as well as failure mode analysis as needed.
• Creates trends from data collection that reflect current practice and quantifies improvement opportunities.
• Integrates large volumes of data and information into a succinct problem definition.
• Uses critical thinking, inductive, and deductive reasoning skills to reduce complex issues to realistic/feasible solutions and staging.
• Utilizes a variety of Performance Improvement tools: PI, CQI, Lean, rapid cycle improvement to assess, analyze and improve outcomes.
• Coaches others to use reliability principles when determining interventions. Designs PDSAs, facilitates PDSA cycles and documents results.
• Trains others to utilize QI/Lean tools including but not limited to flow diagrams, modified FMEA and pareto charts.
• Leadership expertise with idenitification of priority areas and goal setting
• Recommends strategic priority areas for the organization based on data and trends.
• Works autonomously to identify areas of improvement, create action plans and successfully implement interventions to sustain improvement organization wide using appropriate stakeholders.
• Ability to train and educate others on a variety of reliability and performance improvement tools.
• Develops processes and infrastructure that is in full compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Expertise on regulatory standards and requirements, able to apply knowledge to a variety of settings across the continuum.

• Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested.
  
  

Phoenix Children's Mission, Vision, & Values

Mission

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families

Vision

Phoenix Children's will be the leading pediatric health system in the Southwest, nationally recognized for exceptional care, innovative research and advanced medical education.

We realize this vision by:

• Offering the most comprehensive care across ages, communities and specialties
• Investing in innovative research, including emerging treatments, tools and technologies
• Advancing education and training to shape the next generation of clinical leaders
• Advocating for the health and well-being of children and families
  
  

Values

• We place children and families at the center of all we do
• We deliver exceptional care, every day and in every way
• We collaborate with colleagues, partners and communities to amplify our impact
• We set the standards of pediatric healthcare today, and innovate for the future
• We are accountable for making the highest quality care accessible and affordable
  
  

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Education Do you meet this requirement?

• Bachelors degree in Healthcare, Business Administration, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

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• Masters degree in Nursing or other Healthcare field.
  
  

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Experience Do you meet this requirement?

• Minimum of 3 years recent healthcare experience.
  
  

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• One or more years of Performance Improvement experience or similar experience in a clinical setting.
  
  

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• One or more years of recent experience and expertise with regulatory standards (i.e. CMS, Joint Commission, etc.).
  
  

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• One or more years Process Maps, Graph selection, creation, and interpretation (run chart, control chart, etc.), Project Management
  
  

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• Facilitation experience with clinical teams, including physician participants
  
  

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Certifications / Licenses / Registries Do you meet this requirement?

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) and/or Patient Safety Certification (CPPS).
  
  

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• Lean certification
  
  

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Special Skills Do you meet this requirement?

• Formal training in Performance Improvement, Patient Safety, Healthcare Engineering, or similar field.
  
  

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• Proficient at written and verbal presentations
  
  

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• Expertise with faciliating organizational change
  
  

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Physical Requirements & Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential

• Physical Requirement - Feeling (sensing textures and temperatures) - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Fine Motor Skills (pinching, gripping, etc) - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Hearing - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Reaching - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Sitting - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Standing - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Stooping/crouching/kneeling/crawling - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Talking - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Walking - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Near Vision - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Far Vision - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Use of keyboard, mouse and/or computer equipment - Frequently
• Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential - Inside office environment - Applicable
• Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential - Airborne communicable diseases - Applicable
• Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential - Bloodborne pathogens or bodily fluid - Applicable
• Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential - Radiation exposure - Applicable
• Occupational Exposure/Risk Potential - Toxic or caustic chemicals - Applicable
  
  

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• Employment type

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Job function

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  Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Wellness and Fitness Services, Hospitals and Health Care, and Medical Practices

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