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Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Description:

Quality and Compliance Specialist

Shift: Monday – Friday 8 am to 4:30 pm,

Status: Full time

Incentives: 1st Day Benefits

The primary purpose of the role of Quality and Compliance Specialist is to oversee quality assurance, performance improvement, and compliance activities. Working closely with the Quality and Compliance Director, you'll ensure adherence to regulatory standards and foster a culture of continuous improvement across medical services, home care, and contracted services.

This position will be housed primarily at Mercy LIFE Norristown.

Position will also require travel to other locations for meetings and coverage for other facilities as needed. Home base location assignment may change as to support ongoing quality coverage needs.

What we offer:

+ Warm and supportive environment with a truly patient-centered focus

+ Competitive salary and benefit package, including 1st Day Benefit coverage and Daily Pay

+ Career paths and professional development

+ Learn the industry's best, easy-to-use, advanced technology

+ Ability to earn incentives through our Employee Referral program

What you will do:

+ Manage multiple safety, quality, and process improvement projects as they relate to quality and safety initiatives.

+ Coordinate data collection, analysis, and action plan to improve process and outcome.

+ Lead performance improvement initiatives and develop corrective action.

+ Support the interdisciplinary team providing guidance on CMS regulations and survey readiness.

+ Maintain a constant state of survey readiness and ensure reporting requirements are met.

+ Supports organizational safety event review and analysis, including intensive case analysis, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practices.

+ Analyzes patient safety data and recommends/implements proactive solutions.

+ Facilitates the selection and provides leadership in conducting proactive risk assessments, including the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

+ Facilitate the grievance and appeals process.

+ Develop and implement audit tools for clinical processes and utilization.

+ Monitor infection control data and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

+ Prepare and submit monthly quality metrics.

What you will need:

+ Must possess a comprehensive knowledge of quality management principles, data analysis, and report preparation, as normally obtained through a Bachelor's degree and two (2) years quality/compliance or performance improvement experience preferred. A combination of education and experience may be acceptable. Experience working in a healthcare environment preferred.

+ Minimum of one (1) year of documented experience working with a frail or elderly population preferred.

+ Demonstrates strong analytical skills, problem solving capabilities, and mathematical skills, having the ability to decipher best practice and statistical data, audits, and surveys.

+ Project management experience, preferred

+ Knowledge in Performance Improvement and / or Lean continuous quality improvement

+ Must be action-oriented, have business acumen, manage conflict well, be customer focused, have high decision quality, flexibility to adapt to ongoing change and have organizational agility.

+ Ability to work with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment.

+ Possess interpersonal skills to drive collaboration, commitment and productivity when working with cross functional teams, customers, and end users. Must be comfortable functioning in a virtual, collaborative shared leadership environment.

We have an energizing new vision and strategy. Join us and shape the future of healthcare!

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran