Senior Clinical Performance Improvement Consultant

Jobtailor; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Sacramento, CA seeks a senior Clinical Performance Improvement leader to drive organization-wide quality and patient safety improvements. You will provide clinical leadership, consult on performance strategies, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver measurable gains in outcomes and efficiency.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, stakeholder engagement, and teaching improvement concepts to physicians, nurses and quality leaders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business or related field, or equivalent education/experience.
• 8 years recent relevant experience.
• Thorough knowledge of health care delivery and quality improvement.
• Knowledge of lean performance improvement methodology and management systems.
• Experience leading, facilitating and developing effective teams.
• Skills in consulting, group process facilitation, whole system design, negotiation, change management and conflict resolution.
• Ability to influence and develop effective working relationships with healthcare executives, physicians and clinical leaders.
• Excellent verbal, written and listening communication skills.
• Comfortable speaking in public to various audiences.
• Skilled in teaching improvement concepts and principles to diverse audiences.
• Ability to teach and consult with physicians, nurses and quality leaders about outcome data.
• Track record working with and motivating diverse work teams, including physicians and nurses.
• Skills and experience solving complex problems and developing actionable solutions/recommendations.
• Ability to facilitate planning sessions with senior executives, directors, management and physicians.
• Ability to gather and analyze clinical data and prepare relevant reports.
• Ability to read and interpret data and translate it into meaningful information.
• Analytical, critical thinking, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to interpret the strength of research findings/evidence.
• Detail-oriented, self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills; experience addressing large audiences.
• Desire and ability to rapidly learn and apply new learnings.
• Proficiency in all standard Microsoft Office applications

Responsibilities

• Drive clinical performance improvement across the organization.
• Provide clinical leadership, direction, consultation, guidance and support for performance improvement strategies.
• Lead and facilitate clinical quality improvement projects and patient safety improvement initiatives.
• Support organization improvements to achieve top-decile clinical outcomes and clinical quality and safety goals.
• Provide clinical expertise, performance improvement consultation, analysis and gap assessment to assigned teams.
• Facilitate performance improvement team and group development.
• Guide dissemination of practices that improve clinical outcomes.
• Deliver measurable improvements in quality, safety, service and efficiency.
• Consult and coach process owners, value stream owners, paired leaders, sponsors and improvement team members.
• Contribute to development of clinical metrics, dashboards and scorecards.
• Contribute to change management plans, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training and implementation/adoption

Skills

Clinical Performance Improvement

Lean Performance Improvement

Team Leadership

Data Analysis

Change Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication Skills

Public Speaking

Teaching Improvement Concepts

Problem-Solving

Influencing & Persuasion

Project Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Applications

Job description

Jobtailor in Sacramento, CA seeks a senior Clinical Performance Improvement leader to drive organization-wide quality and patient safety improvements. You will provide clinical leadership, consult on performance strategies, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver measurable gains in outcomes and efficiency.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, stakeholder engagement, and teaching improvement concepts to physicians, nurses and quality leaders.