Senior SQPE Specialist

ccf; Florida; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital is seeking a Senior SQPE Specialist to join a team dedicated to patient-centered care and continuous improvement. You will lead performance improvement initiatives across service lines and collaborate with executive and clinical leadership to ensure adherence to regulatory standards.

The role features a hybrid schedule (8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Monday–Friday) with on-site work 3 days per week and minimal travel to Coral Springs, FL.

Responsibilities

• Direct performance improvement regarding SQPE across an Enterprise service line, market, or submarket.
• Act as an accountable partner to executive and clinical leadership within their areas of responsibility.
• Understand and implement elements of performance as outlined by regulations, bylaws, and rules and regulations established by the medical staff.
• Develop meaningful quality assurance activities with executive and clinical leadership to establish when a deviation in standard practice occurs.
• Analyze performance data, develop and implement improvement strategies, and apply structured problem-solving approaches.
• Act as a consultant in educating and evaluating clinical and support department staff regarding quality management regulations and standards of care.
• Support medical staff quality assurance activities such as peer review, ongoing professional practice evaluation, and focused professional practice evaluation.
• Develop and ensure processes to monitor performance, identify where intervention is needed, and lead changes to drive and sustain improvement.
• Incorporate regulatory and accreditation standards into improvement activities around SQPE.
• Collaborate on development of required plans such as the performance improvement plan, safety plan, infection control plan, and others as required by governance.
• Incorporate enterprise priorities, regulatory requirements, and benchmarks, ensuring alignment to one standard of care across locations.
• Facilitate dashboard reviews, data analysis, and decision-making from data.
• Identify and address root causes to lead to sustainable improvement.
• Lead improvement projects to the desired key result, role modeling the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model.
• Manage stakeholder relationships, project risks, and project changes.
• Research and apply best practices within and outside the organization.
• Manage changes to ensure the adoption and sustainment of quality improvement.
• Build relationships with project teams, medical staff, other clinical and non-clinical stakeholders, executive leadership, and sponsors.
• Coach complex improvement teams to success with their quality improvement projects at the local, market, and Enterprise levels.
• Coach high reliability principles and error prevention strategies.
• Apply the Cleveland Clinic cause analysis process to identify key factors that lead to failures in SQPE. Apply common cause analysis identification to safety events.
• Participate in Quality, EOC, Survey Readiness, and Safety Rounds.
• Support medical staff assurance activities such as Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE).
• Analyze performance data for trends and collaborate with key stakeholders to facilitate improvement strategies. Facilitate meetings as necessary.

Job description

Job Title

Senior SQPE Specialist

Location

Weston

Facility

Florida Weston Hospital

Department

Clinical Quality-Clinical and Operational Improvement

Job Code

001539

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:00am-5:00pm

Job Summary

Join Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital's team of caregivers that remain on the leading edge of technology and education, all while consistently providing patient-centered healthcare. As part of Cleveland Clinic's Florida region, Weston Hospital is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale and Florida regions. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

A caregiver in this role works a hybrid schedule, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., with on-site work 3 days per week and less than 5% travel to Coral Springs, Florida.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Direct performance improvement regarding SQPE across an Enterprise service line, market, or submarket.
• Act as an accountable partner to executive and clinical leadership within their areas of responsibility.
• Understand and implement elements of performance as outlined by regulations, bylaws, and rules and regulations established by the medical staff. Act as the primary resource for staff to facilitate overall operations of programs.
• Develop meaningful quality assurance activities with executive and clinical leadership to establish when a deviation in standard practice occurs.
• Analyze performance data, develop and implement improvement strategies, and apply structured problem-solving approaches.
• Act as a consultant in educating and evaluating clinical and support department staff regarding quality management regulations and standards of care.
• Support medical staff quality assurance activities such as peer review, ongoing professional practice evaluation, and focused professional practice evaluation.
• Develop and ensure processes to monitor performance, identify where intervention is needed, and lead changes to drive and sustain improvement.
• Incorporate regulatory and accreditation standards into improvement activities around SQPE.
• Collaborate on development of required plans such as the performance improvement plan, safety plan, infection control plan, and others as required by governance.
• Incorporate enterprise priorities, regulatory requirements, and benchmarks, ensuring alignment to one standard of care across locations.
• Facilitate dashboard reviews, data analysis, and decision-making from data.
• Identify and address root causes to lead to sustainable improvement.
• Lead improvement projects to the desired key result, role modeling the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model.
• Manage stakeholder relationships, project risks, and project changes.
• Research and apply best practices within and outside the organization.
• Manage changes to ensure the adoption and sustainment of quality improvement.
• Build relationships with project teams, medical staff, other clinical and non-clinical stakeholders, executive leadership, and sponsors.
• Coach complex improvement teams to success with their quality improvement projects at the local, market, and Enterprise levels.
• Coach high reliability principles and error prevention strategies.
• Apply the Cleveland Clinic cause analysis process to identify key factors that lead to failures in SQPE. Apply common cause analysis identification to safety events.
• Participate in Quality, EOC, Survey Readiness, and Safety Rounds.
• Support medical staff assurance activities such as Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE).
• Analyze performance data for trends and collaborate with key stakeholders to facilitate improvement strategies. Facilitate meetings as necessary.
• Perform ongoing trending of publicl