Quality Coordinator/Auditor

Hospital for Special Care•New Britain, CT

14d•Onsite

About The Position

We are dedicated to creating an environment of care and engagement that makes us one of the most desirable places to work, providing exceptional care to each patient each and every day! (6428) QUALITY COORDINATOR/AUDITOR QUALIFICATIONS Required: Graduate of an accredited RN School of Nursing; Bachelor's degree in nursing or allied health preferred. Required: Minimum At least three years of related experience with performance improvement, case management, and/or care management including at least three years of management/supervisory experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and experience. Required Minimum of three years leadership experience in a hospital setting,. Required: Skilled in interpersonal communications, both written and oral, to deal effectively with all levels of health care providers and administration. Required: Computer skills including word processing and spreadsheet programs. Preferred: Previous experience managing /coordinating staff or leading a successful project Implementation. JOB SUMMARY Has primary responsibility for assessing that clinical documentation required for regulatory and performance improvement activities are established and documented during the patient’s course of care. Provides guidance for optimizing team resources and patient specific outcomes within best practice, ethical, legal, and regulatory parameters. Serves as a central resource for the Clinical Teams concerning strategies to assure effective, timely and patient-centered care documentation that supports continuity and comprehensive care planning. Identifies risks as it pertains to regulatory/accrediting environment through various auditing and review procedures. This may include examination and documentation of clinical activities in medical records, review and survey of patient and the care environment as well as other programmatic activities of the clinical system, utilizing both manual and computer-assisted techniques. This role serves to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to patient care. Collaborates with other departments and activities within the hospital working in coordination with the necessary clinical department heads of the hospital. This position is responsible to assure that the systems and analysis required by regulatory and accreditation standards are in place. Collaborative working relationships will be maintained with medical records and fiscal departments, and other departments as needed. The Quality Coordinator/Auditor is expected to facilitate the implementation of corrective action plans. Takes the lead in identifying improvement opportunities. PHYSICAL DEMANDS Job requires standing and/or walking for long periods, up to one hundred fifty minutes at a time with infrequent sitting. Overhead reaching, climbing, squatting, and kneeling are occasionally required. Bending and forward reaching frequently required to access equipment from high and low areas. Lifting of weights greater than fifteen pounds is occasionally required. Pushing of objects greater than fifty pounds is occasionally required. COGNITIVE DEMANDS Job requires problem identification and thoughtful decision-making is required. A high degree of attention to detail, discernment, perception and/or concentration is necessary. Job requires legibility, speaking accuracy and logical sentence and paragraph organization. A working knowledge and familiarity with professional (medical) terms and definitions is required. Job requires a high level of communication skill, active listening and an ability to dialogue with multiple parties. Job requires an ability to comprehend abstractions and to make inferences. A working knowledge and familiarity with professional (i.e medical) terms and definitions required. Job requires familiarity with data display methodology. WORK DEMANDS Job requires working primarily indoors. Job requires working continuously around others while working alone and with others on a frequent basis. Flexibility in scheduling of hours may be required. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Works closely with medical staff, patient care team members to serve as a resource to facilitate effective care planning, care provision documentation. Serves as mentor, promoting clinical staff to foster best practices for clinical documentation and professionalism. Primary responsible party for the hospital’s compliance with the mandated CMS Quality Reporting Program data collection. Maintains working knowledge of all required indicators for submission. Works to understand and interpret new indicators proposed and implemented. In conjunction with Infection Control and Laboratory services, analyzes Hospital Acquired Infection reporting requirements. Provides validation support to assure data reported to CDC is performed in accordance with defined standards. Conducts analysis of quality indicators reported to committees and the governing body to ensure that events are accurately measured and categorized and provides input on corrective actions to improve quality indicators. Provides consultation on new products to represent and prioritize patient safety practices to assure a balance with cost containment and value based initiatives. Promotes decision-making in area of responsibility, utilizing processes and interactions promoting information analysis of all involved factors relative to corporate strategy and position. Establishes planning processes in response to departmental strategy, goals, and objectives; monitors on a regular basis progress and accomplishments; promotes, implements and evaluates program development through appropriate planning, analysis, and developmental phases. Provides guidance, support and feedback to the care team to promote effective utilization, monitoring and documentation of the patient care course with the goal of ensuring that documentation meets required standards for external reporting, accreditation and compliance. Assists to assure comprehensive safety/quality/performance improvement program inclusive of the analysis and trending of data related to initiatives. At HFSC, we are a family. Each person who is a part of our team of 1,300 employees and volunteers offers unique talents and perspectives. We all believe in keeping the same shared value of making our patients the center of what we do. By combining all of our unique skills and shared values we are able to make a positive difference in the lives of our patients. We are dedicated to creating an environment of care and engagement that makes us one of the most desirable places to work. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and offer a competitive benefits package. Not finding the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by clicking Get Started below or create an account by clicking 'Sign In' at the top of the page to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited RN School of Nursing
Minimum At least three years of related experience with performance improvement, case management, and/or care management including at least three years of management/supervisory experience; or an equivalent combination of related education and experience.
Minimum of three years leadership experience in a hospital setting
Skilled in interpersonal communications, both written and oral, to deal effectively with all levels of health care providers and administration.
Computer skills including word processing and spreadsheet programs.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in nursing or allied health preferred.
Previous experience managing /coordinating staff or leading a successful project Implementation.

Responsibilities

Works closely with medical staff, patient care team members to serve as a resource to facilitate effective care planning, care provision documentation.
Serves as mentor, promoting clinical staff to foster best practices for clinical documentation and professionalism.
Primary responsible party for the hospital’s compliance with the mandated CMS Quality Reporting Program data collection.
Maintains working knowledge of all required indicators for submission.
Works to understand and interpret new indicators proposed and implemented.
In conjunction with Infection Control and Laboratory services, analyzes Hospital Acquired Infection reporting requirements.
Provides validation support to assure data reported to CDC is performed in accordance with defined standards.
Conducts analysis of quality indicators reported to committees and the governing body to ensure that events are accurately measured and categorized and provides input on corrective actions to improve quality indicators.
Provides consultation on new products to represent and prioritize patient safety practices to assure a balance with cost containment and value based initiatives.
Promotes decision-making in area of responsibility, utilizing processes and interactions promoting information analysis of all involved factors relative to corporate strategy and position.
Establishes planning processes in response to departmental strategy, goals, and objectives; monitors on a regular basis progress and accomplishments; promotes, implements and evaluates program development through appropriate planning, analysis, and developmental phases.
Provides guidance, support and feedback to the care team to promote effective utilization, monitoring and documentation of the patient care course with the goal of ensuring that documentation meets required standards for external reporting, accreditation and compliance.
Assists to assure comprehensive safety/quality/performance improvement program inclusive of the analysis and trending of data related to initiatives.