Director, High Reliability and Clinical Integration

Endeavor Health•Arlington Heights, IL

29d•$68 - $105

About The Position

The Director, High Reliability and Clinical Integration is responsible for operationalizing the High Reliability Operating System across the continuum of care, ensuring that reliable, safe, and high-quality outcomes are the default. This role focuses on the structures, processes, and governance that enable learning, escalation, accountability, and consistent follow-through across acute care hospitals, outpatient settings, institutes, and service lines. The Director provides functional quality and high-reliability leadership for assigned hospitals and settings while enabling horizontal alignment and integration of learning. Reporting to the Assistant Vice President Quality and Patient Safety, this role translates established enterprise priorities into day-to-day operations, embeds high-reliability behaviors into governance and key practices, and ensures peer review, risk, and performance data are consistently surfaced, learned from, and acted upon.

Requirements

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, Nursing, Public Health, or a related field.
Clinical degree in relevant field.
Clinical degree in a relevant field.
Expertise in quality improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, PDSA) and clinical process optimization.
Advanced practitioner in change management methodologies (e.g., Prosci ADKAR, Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model) an implementation science, with a proven ability to lead complex change initiatives.
A minimum of 7 years of progressive leadership experience in performance improvement, safety and quality management.
In-depth understanding of clinical quality, patient safety, risk management, and regulatory compliance across the healthcare continuum.
Expertise in data analytics and performance monitoring tools (e.g., Vizient, RL Solutions, Culture of Safety Surveys).
Experience partnering with disciplines in developing dashboards, scorecards, and data visualizations to monitor trends and guide decision-making.
Ability to track, trend, and interpret safety metrics and implement corrective actions using data-driven insights.
Proven ability to collaborate with executive leaders (CNOs, CMOs, Presidents) and workgroups to align system and Entitypriorities.
Ability to foster cross-disciplinary teamwork to achieve quality outcomes.
Experience leading teams to ensure clinical excellence and accountability.
Ability to engage frontline staff through safety huddles, leadership walk-arounds, and shared learning initiatives.

Nice To Haves

Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) or Certified Professional In-Patient Safety (CPPS) or equivalent (preferred).

Responsibilities

Leads operationalization of the High Reliability Operating System (HROS) across the care continuum, embedding safety, quality, and reliability principles into daily operations.
Sustains the High Reliability Operating Model, including structures, processes, and governance supporting reliable care delivery.
Establishes accountability structures and implements standardized operating practices that support consistent and reliable clinical and operational outcomes.
Ensures escalation, prioritization, and decision-making processes enable proactive risk identification and response to safety signals.
Serves as the functional quality and high-reliability partner to assigned hospitals, outpatient settings, service lines, and Institutes.
Partners with operational, clinical, and service line leaders to ensure consistent application of quality, safety, and reliability practices.
Supports achievement of quality and patient safety outcomes through monitoring, performance review, and improvement execution.
Integrates quality and safety priorities into operational planning to ensure alignment with system strategy and regulatory expectations.
Leads systemwide learning and practice integration across institutes, service lines, employed and affiliated medical groups, and across care settings.
Establishes system learning forums that accelerate the spread of insights and best practices across the organization.
Converts safety signals, peer review insights, and performance variation into standardized high reliability practices and improvement actions.
Integrates high-reliability behaviors into governance structures, including Daily Management Systems (DMS), MDI boards, and quality/safety committees.
Provides leadership and oversight for Peer Review and Professional Practice Evaluation (PPE), ensuring OPPE and FPPE processes are equitable, consistent, and aligned with Just Culture principles.
Partners with medical staff leadership and Risk Management to integrate peer review findings, safety events, complaints, and risk signals into a unified system learning and governance process.

Benefits

Eligibility for our Annual Incentive Plan, which offers the potential to earn a certain percentage amount of your base salary based on organizational performance.
Premium pay such as shift, on call, holiday and more based on an employee’s job
Incentive pay for select positions.
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
Various Medical, Dental, Pet and Vision options
Tuition Reimbursement
Free Parking
Wellness Program
Savings Plan
Health Savings Account Options
Retirement Options with Company Match
Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
Community Involvement Opportunities