NORTHERN REGION QUALITY COORDINATOR
About The Position
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a Northern Region Quality Coordinator. The Northern Region Quality Coordinator will perform Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Development, project coordination and supervision of staff assigned to quality monitoring for assigned State Operated Psychiatric Hospitals (SOPH's). The Northern Region Quality Coordinator will collaborate with hospital quality managers to verify that services to persons with mental health needs meet professional/accreditation/regulatory standards. As the State Mental Health Authority, the Division is responsible for ensuring that Illinois children, adolescents and adults living with serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, or an impaired level of functioning, have access to publicly funded mental health services.
Requirements
- Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years college.
- Requires prior experience equivalent to three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative experience in a Quality Improvement field for a health or human services organization.
Nice To Haves
- Four (4) years of professional administrative experience performing quality control assessments and monitoring activities for a public or private business organization.
- Four (4) years of professional experience generating corresponding statistical and/or written reports and recommending and implementing policy changes because of those activities.
- Four (4) years of professional experience performing data and statistical analysis, assessments, and monitoring for a public or private business organization.
- Four (4) years of professional experience in the review of the mental health code and various accreditation and certification requirements for a health and human service organization.
- Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience assigning work, providing guidance to subordinates, recommending counseling and/or discipline following collective bargaining agreements, training staff, approving time off, and preparing and signing performance evaluations.
- Three (3) years of professional experience reviewing and evaluating project reports, verifying timely and accurate information for a public or private organization.
Responsibilities
- Serves as Northern Region Quality Coordinator.
- Collaborates with hospital quality managers to verify that services to persons with mental health needs meet professional/accreditation/regulatory standards.
- Serves as full-line supervisor.
- Assigns staff to present project reports to bureau, division, and hospital administrative staff.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Benefits
- A Pension Program
- Competitive Group Insurance Benefits including Health, Life, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 3 Paid Personal Business Days annually
- 12 Paid Sick days annually (Sick days carry over from year to year)
- 10-25 days of Paid Vacation time annually - (10 days in year one of employment)
- 13 Paid Holidays annually, 14 on even numbered years
- Flexible Work Schedules (when available dependent upon position)
- 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
- Deferred Compensation Program - A supplemental retirement plan
- Optional Pre-Tax Programs such as Medical Care Assistance Plan (MCAP), Dependent Care Assistance Plan (DCAP)
- Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program eligibility
- GI Bill® Training/Apprenticeship Benefits eligibility for qualifying Veterans
- 5% Salary Differential for Bilingual Positions
- Commuter Savings Program (Chicago only)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
