Senior Clinical Performance Improvement Specialist

SUNY Downstate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University seeks a full-time Senior Staff Associate / Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist to lead performance improvement initiatives and clinical rounding. The role aligns nursing PI with quality, safety, efficiency, and patient satisfaction, using clinical expertise to set standards and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities include investigations, data analysis, presenting findings, leading PI workgroups, coordinating PI meetings, and monitoring

Qualifications

• Must hold an active NYS RN license.
• Experience in performance improvement and patient safety.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and PI projects.

Responsibilities

• Conduct event investigations and focused medical record reviews with data gathering.
• Present findings in narrative, statistical, and graphic formats.
• Lead work groups on performance improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate departmental PI meetings and agendas.
• Provide clinical expertise for PI projects across hospital departments.
• Review quality measures, sepsis, patient complaints, and regulatory investigations.
• Develop corrective actions and improvement strategies; monitor outcomes.
• Assist departments with PI meetings and maintain statistics and follow-up.
• Analyze sentinel events, perform root cause analysis, and implement risk-reduction actions.

Skills

Clinical rounding

Liaison to nursing & PI

Event investigations

Data collection & analysis

Narrative and graphical presentation

Leading PI initiatives

Root cause analysis

Risk reduction strategies

Education

New York State RN license

Job description

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University seeks a full-time Senior Staff Associate / Performance Improvement Clinical Specialist to lead performance improvement initiatives and clinical rounding. The role aligns nursing PI with quality, safety, efficiency, and patient satisfaction, using clinical expertise to set standards and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities include investigations, data analysis, presenting findings, leading PI workgroups, coordinating PI meetings, and monitoring