Quality & Patient Safety Advisor (Local / Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

13h•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 works across departments, interdisciplinary teams, and, when necessary, external entities to identify and implement improvements. It supports patient safety event analysis, process redesign, project team leadership, and the use of evaluation measures. The advisor also communicates quality initiatives, summarizes findings to help prioritize improvement work, and provides instruction and consultation to teams. The position is part of Vanderbilt Health’s Department of Quality, Safety, and Risk Prevention, which supports faculty and staff across the Main Campus, Regional Hospitals, and Ambulatory Divisions in providing safe, timely, effective, efficient, and patient-centered care. The role is a day-shift position and offers the opportunity to contribute to institutional quality goals and continuous performance improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Three years of relevant work experience.
Ability to analyze data accurately.
Project management skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources to achieve project goals.
Ability to lead teams in quality and performance improvement methodology, including opportunity analysis, key driver diagrams, performance measure requirements, and PDSA improvement cycles.
Ability to identify and evaluate patient safety risks, near misses, and adverse events, and to communicate findings and evidence-based mitigation strategies.
Communication, time management, change management, prioritization, relationship-building, and decision-making skills.
Knowledge of regulatory compliance and healthcare organizational dynamics.

Nice To Haves

Clinical experience.
Nursing background.
Healthcare 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, when necessary, to develop and implement strategies that 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 analysis for events of varying impact levels.
Develop and plan process redesign.
Organize, develop, and lead project teams.
Coordinate the incorporation of quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation measures into project requests and evaluations.
Summarize findings to promote 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.