Improvement Optimization Advisor Senior, Geisinger Health Plan

Geisinger • PA

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About The Position

The position involves facilitating multidisciplinary improvement teams, gathering data, performing research, completing analytics, and compiling best practice information while providing project and program management for clinical and operational leaders to achieve transformational strategic and tactical project results. The focus is on multi-project initiatives at the platform and multi-platform level, involving major segments of the organization to improve patient experience, safety, staff satisfaction, quality, timeliness, and efficiency improvements while achieving a favorable return on investment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in a Healthcare Related Degree (Required)
• Minimum of 5 years of related work experience (Required)
• Minimum of 5 years managing people, processes, or projects (Required)
• Six Sigma Certified - American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in a Healthcare Related Degree (Preferred)

Responsibilities

• Develops work plans for discrete projects and program and multi-project initiatives.
• Works with project accountable leaders to manage the work to meet project milestones through application of project management discipline.
• Hardwires process improvements and embeds process and outcome metrics in improvement initiatives.
• Works with service lines and departments to formulate improvement strategies and designs complex improvements in operations and patient care workflows.
• Assesses local stakeholder environments and builds support among line staff, providers, and leaders.
• Establishes and manages relationships to achieve transformational change.
• Facilitates and trains trainers for multidisciplinary and multi-site teams.
• Uses analytic, experiential, and subjective assessment skills to identify large performance improvement opportunities.
• Identifies and applies relevant best practice improvement tools and solutions.
• Collaborates with internal and external resources to utilize expertise from multiple sources.
• Documents work products and methodologies to enable knowledge transfer.
• Designs and develops general use education plans and content.
• Manages and conducts training for providers, leaders, and executives.

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits for full-time and part-time positions from day one, including vision and dental.
• Encouragement of collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality.
• Diversity in the workforce to strengthen the team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees