Quality and Patient Safety Advisor - Behavioral Health (Local/Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Serves as a quality improvement advisor, providing project management facilitation, education, and data analysis to improve systems and processes under occasional guidance. Facilitates the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes. The role supports quality and safety across behavioral health areas and contributes to initiatives within Vanderbilt Health’s Department of Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention.

Requirements

• Nursing experience as an RN or LPN.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Capabilities in regulatory compliance, judgment and decision-making, facilitation, healthcare organizational dynamics, prioritization, data transformation and analysis, relationship building, improvement methodology, identification and evaluation of harm risks, strategic planning, project management, time management, communication, and change management.

Nice To Haves

• Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital inpatient nursing experience.
• Behavioral Health experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct timely chart and case reviews, validate and maintain quality data, and ensure timely follow-through on reported safety events.
• Lead routine quality and safety rounds, support organizational awareness campaigns, and maintain frontline visibility across behavioral health areas.
• Deliver quality and safety education and support QIA nurse development, new-hire training, and ongoing departmental learning initiatives.
• Prepare and present recurring reports, such as unit-level quality updates.
• Collaborate with quality and safety colleagues to plan meeting agendas, take minutes, conduct quarterly pressure-injury surveys, and provide Behavioral Health representation and support for key initiatives.
• Facilitate improvement projects and analyze data to help improve systems, processes, clinical quality, patient safety, care, and financial outcomes.

Benefits

• The posting describes a comprehensive benefits package that may include health, disability, retirement, and/or wellness offerings.
• Professional growth.
• A sense of community and purpose.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level