Sr Accreditation Specialist

Houston Methodist; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Houston Methodist seeks a Senior Accreditation Specialist to lead collaboration with medical staff and leadership on accreditation and certification efforts. The role serves as an expert resource, mentor, and educator across the hospital to promote compliance and standardize survey processes.

Responsibilities include internal surveys, on-site or written responses to surveys or investigations, and guiding action plans with hospital leadership to ensure ongoing readiness and quality improvement.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or other field relevant to healthcare
• Master’s degree in healthcare or business preferred
• Five years hospital setting experience, preferably in patient care or quality
• Three years in healthcare quality, accreditation or regulatory activities
• Two years in accreditation or regulatory activities in a hospital setting

Aufgaben

• Collaborates with hospital leadership to evaluate and sustain accreditation readiness.
• Leads proactive reviews of regulatory, accreditation and certification to assess vulnerabilities.
• Guides development and implementation of corrective actions in response to survey findings or complaints.
• Provides education and guidance on regulatory and accreditation requirements

Kenntnisse

Regulatory compliance

Quality improvement

Survey coordination

Documentation

Communication

Project management

Data analysis

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Microsoft Office

Jobbeschreibung

At Houston Methodist, the Senior Accreditation Specialist is responsible for leading the collaboration with medical staff and leadership to provide a global and unified perspective and understanding of accreditation, regulatory and disease-specific certification requirements and activities. The position serves the hospital as an expert resource, mentor, and educator for regulatory, accreditation and certification programs; and works across the hospital to assess, measure, and report ongoing compliance with standards, promote evidence-based best practices, and standardize common survey processes. Additional responsibilities include functioning as a consultant/surveyor, conducting internal surveys, and providing guidance and direction with on-site or written response and resolution to a regulatory or accreditation survey or complaint investigation.

FLSA STATUS

Exempt

QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or other field relevant to the healthcare industry
• Master’s degree in healthcare or business related field preferred

EXPERIENCE

• Five years of experience in a hospital setting, preferably in patient care or quality
• Three years of experience in one or more of the following: healthcare quality, accreditation or regulatory activities in a healthcare setting; performance improvement; patient safety; infection prevention and control; and/or health information management
• Two years of experience performing accreditation or regulatory activities in a hospital setting

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• RN state license or Healthcare Accreditation Certification Program (HACP)

Preferred

• CPHQ - Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) or
• CQA - Certified Quality Auditor (ASQ) or
• CSHA - Certification Specialist in Healthcare Accreditation (HACP)

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations
• Sufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security
• Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles
• Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory and accreditation requirements (such as Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services/CMS, The Joint Commission, DNVGL NIAHO/ISO 9001 and/or State requirements)
• Demonstrated expertise in quality/performance improvement tools and techniques; process mapping and flow chart diagrams
• Computer proficiency with intermediate level skills for document, spreadsheet and graphic software (Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Ability to collect qualitative and quantitative data and information; analyze and solve problems
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with multidisciplinary groups and teams
• Strong writing and presentation skills; ability to articulate information in a manner that is easily understood
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility in work and assignments; adapt to change
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision; initiative to identify and utilize available internal and external resources
• Proven time management skills and ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure; strong organizational skills with ability to work with multiple projects and tasks
• Ability to discreetly handle sensitive issues in a professional and confidential manner

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Collaborates and effectively communicates with a wide variety of disciplines within the hospital to evaluate, improve, and sustain regulatory and accreditation readiness. Fosters cooperation among departments and disciplines to achieve and sustain ongoing accreditation and regulatory compliance.
• 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. Provides guidance and direction to hospital with on-site or written response and resolution to a regulatory or accreditation survey or complaint investigation as needed.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Supports and participates in hospital pre-survey, on-site survey, and post-survey activities for accreditation, regulatory and disease-specific certification programs. Functions as a consultant/surveyor and conducts internal surveys using ISO 9001 process audit tools and techniques to assess and evaluate ongoing survey readiness.
• Communicates survey findings to Quality & Patient Safety leadership and other hospital quality/patient safety (accreditation/regulatory) departments.
• Communicates updates to regulatory/accreditation/certification standards. Provides support, guidance, assessment and evaluation of hospital implementation of processes and practices to comply with new or revised requirements. Provides education and training related to regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Serves as a primary source of contact with accreditation and regulatory agencies; manages hospital profile information independently.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Facilitates implementation and resolution of survey corrective action processes; provides ongoing review and evaluation of the implementation, effectiveness and sustainability of corrective action plan processes. Tracks, trends and analyzes survey nonconformities; identifies opportunities for improvement and best practices.
• Develops and evaluates processes for an ongoing regulatory and accreditation readiness program that promotes continual improvement in compliance with standards, including ISO 9001 Quality Management and performing gap analyses.
• Facilitates resolution of survey nonconformities through development of collaborative and proactive action plans.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Participates in annual budget preparation, expense projections and justifications.
• Utilizes efficient and cost-effective work practices with department resources and supplies; provides recommendations to reduce expenses.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Remains current with regulatory, accreditation and certification changes through available resources such as conferences or internet-based learning, reviewing and researching specific program materials, and/or reviewing professional journals.
• Communicates innovative and best practices to hospital quality and patient safety departments and leadership. Identifies opportunities to align policy and procedure with regulatory/ accreditation requirements.
• Enhances continual improvement activities by acquiring, utilizing and teaching performance improvement concepts and techniques, such as ISO 9001 and LEAN.

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ATTIRE

• Uniform: No
• Scrubs: No
• Business professional: Yes
• Other (department approved): No

ON-CALL*

*Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.

• On Call* No

TRAVEL**

**Travel specifications may vary by department**

• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes