Senior Accreditation & Compliance Strategist

Houstonmethodistcareers; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Houston Methodist seeks a Senior Accreditation Specialist to lead collaboration with medical staff and leadership, ensuring compliance with accreditation, regulatory, and disease-specific certification requirements across the hospital.

The role serves as expert resource, mentor, and educator for regulatory programs; conducts internal surveys, guides on-site or written responses to surveys or investigations, and fosters evidence-based improvements in survey readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related healthcare field is required.
• Five years of hospital experience, preferably in patient care or quality.
• Three years of experience in healthcare quality, accreditation or regulatory activities.
• Two years of experience performing accreditation or regulatory activities in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and communicates with a wide variety of disciplines within the hospital to evaluate, improve, and sustain regulatory and accreditation readiness.
• In partnership with hospital leadership, establishes a process to conduct a proactive review of regulatory, accreditation and certification to assess vulnerabilities to compliance with standards.
• Leads process in collaboration with hospital leadership to assign teams to develop corrective action in response to survey findings and facilitate development and implementation of the corrective action processes.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Quality improvement

Project management

Communication skills

Data analysis

Documentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in nursing or related healthcare field

Master’s degree in healthcare or business preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Houston Methodist seeks a Senior Accreditation Specialist to lead collaboration with medical staff and leadership, ensuring compliance with accreditation, regulatory, and disease-specific certification requirements across the hospital.

The role serves as expert resource, mentor, and educator for regulatory programs; conducts internal surveys, guides on-site or written responses to surveys or investigations, and fosters evidence-based improvements in survey readiness.