Senior Quality & Safety Consultant — Critical Care

Boston Children’s Hospital; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a Senior Safety and Quality Consultant to lead and evaluate complex quality-improvement and patient-safety initiatives across MICU and PIMCU. The role requires strong cross-functional leadership and expertise in QI methodologies.

The position emphasizes on-site work with frontline engagement, rapid-cycle testing, and sustained improvements, partnering with clinical and operational leaders to drive measurable outcomes and reduce harm.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of quality improvement, patient safety, and healthcare quality measurement.
• Ability to independently lead multiple cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Strong analytical and data-visualization skills.
• Experience with regulatory and accreditation standards.

Responsibilities

• Designs, leads, and evaluates complex QI and patient-safety initiatives across MICU and PIMCU.
• Defines project scope, charters, work plans, milestones, deliverables, risks, and sustainability strategies.
• Leads multidisciplinary clinical and operational teams to identify problems, design interventions, test changes, implement improvements, and spread successful practices.
• Develops and oversees quality measurement plans with baselines, targets, and ongoing monitoring plans.
• Oversees quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform improvement work and decision-making.
• Coaches MCC QI data analyst on analytic planning, data definitions, extraction logic, validation, and interpretation of findings.
• Partners with leaders to design and refine workflows, standard work, care pathways, and reliability practices to reduce harm.
• Creates reports, dashboards, run charts, control charts, and visualizations for frontline teams and committees.
• Serves as MCC liaison for quality and safety, building stakeholder relationships across care settings.
• Educates and mentors frontline staff in quality improvement, patient safety, and data interpretation; supports dissemination through forums and abstracts.

Skills

Quality improvement

Patient safety

Data visualization

Project management

Stakeholder management

Lean Six Sigma

Reliability science

Education

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration or related field

Job description

Boston Children’s Hospital is seeking a Senior Safety and Quality Consultant to lead and evaluate complex quality-improvement and patient-safety initiatives across MICU and PIMCU. The role requires strong cross-functional leadership and expertise in QI methodologies.

The position emphasizes on-site work with frontline engagement, rapid-cycle testing, and sustained improvements, partnering with clinical and operational leaders to drive measurable outcomes and reduce harm.