Quality & Patient Safety Advisor (Local)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

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 works with departments, interdisciplinary teams, and external entities as needed to develop and implement improvement strategies, identify and address barriers, and support teams in monitoring outcomes. It coordinates patient safety event analyses and process redesign, organizes and leads project teams, and incorporates evaluation measures into project requests and reviews. The advisor summarizes findings to help prioritize improvement initiatives, communicates quality management work through appropriate forums, and supports continuous performance improvement toward institutional quality goals. The role also provides instruction and consultation to teams to advance education and improve internal processes. Additional duties may be assigned. The Department of Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention equips and empowers Vanderbilt Health faculty and staff across its main campus, regional hospitals, and ambulatory divisions to provide safe, timely, effective, efficient, and patient-centered care. Its teams share knowledge, extend best practices, reduce variability, and improve outcomes across the health system.

Requirements

Clinical experience is required.
Five years of relevant work experience.
Bachelor's degree.
Technical capabilities include regulatory compliance, judgment and decision-making, front-of-room facilitation, healthcare organizational dynamics, prioritization and targeted focus, data transformation into information, relationship building, improvement methodology, identification and evaluation of harm risks, strategic planning, data analysis, project management, time management, communication, and change management.

Nice To Haves

Nursing background.
Quality improvement experience.
Experience working in an operating room, surgery center, or clinical space where procedures are performed.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with departments, interdisciplinary teams, and external entities as needed to develop and implement strategies to improve care and processes.
Navigate the organization to address barriers and escalate issues when appropriate.
Assist department managers and quality improvement teams in identifying, developing, and monitoring outcomes.
Coordinate and facilitate patient safety event analyses of varying impact levels.
Develop and plan process redesign.
Organize, develop, and lead project teams.
Coordinate the inclusion of quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation measures in project requests and evaluations.
Summarize findings to support prioritization of improvement initiatives.
Coordinate communication of quality management initiatives to appropriate forums.
Focus on continuous performance improvement in support of institutional quality goals.
Provide instruction and consultation to departmental teams to advance education and improve internal processes.