Quality & Patient Safety Advisor (Local / Hybrid)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Quality & Patient Safety Advisor serves as a quality improvement advisor, providing project management facilitation, education, and data analysis to improve systems and processes under occasional guidance. The role facilitates the development, implementation, and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes. The advisor works with departments, interdisciplinary teams, and external entities as needed to develop and implement improvement strategies, identify and address barriers, and escalate issues when appropriate. The role supports quality improvement teams and department managers, coordinates patient safety event analysis and process redesign, leads project teams, and incorporates evaluation measures into project requests and reviews. It also summarizes findings to help prioritize improvement initiatives, communicates quality initiatives through appropriate forums, and provides instruction and consultation to advance education and internal processes. This 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 delivering safe, timely, effective, efficient, and patient-centered care. The role is a day-shift position. The posting lists a bachelor’s degree and three years of experience. Clinical experience, a nursing background, healthcare quality improvement experience, and experience in an operating room, surgery center, or procedural clinical space are preferred.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
Three years of relevant work experience.
Clinical experience is preferred.
Nursing background is preferred.
Healthcare quality improvement experience is preferred.
Experience working in an operating room, surgery center, or clinical space where procedures are performed is preferred.
Knowledge and skills in regulatory compliance, judgment and decision-making, facilitation, healthcare organizational dynamics, prioritization, data transformation and analysis, relationship building, improvement methodology, patient harm risk identification and evaluation, strategic planning, project management, time management, communication, and change management.

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 as needed to develop and implement strategies to improve care and processes.
Navigate the organization to address barriers and escalate them 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 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.
Perform additional duties as assigned.