Quality Improvement Team Leader

Requisition #: 481565
Location: Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD 20814
Category: Nursing
Work Shift: Day Shift
Work Week: Full Time
Weekend Work Required: No
Date Posted: Feb. 9, 2022

Do you consider yourself a leader in high-reliability, quality improvement methodology? Are you passionate about initiating interdisciplinary activities to end preventable harm, continuously improve patient outcomes and experience, and to eliminate waste in health care? If so, then our Quality Improvement Team Leader opportunity was made for you!

As a Quality Improvement Team Leader, you will lead or actively participate in in quality improvement projects/activities using quality tools to analyze problems (e.g. fish-bone diagrams, root cause analysis, fault tree analysis, failure mode, and effect analysis, flow-charting, pareto analyses), and applying Six Sigma, Lean, Toyota Production System, or PDSA/PDCA for the overall project. You will work with front-line staff (people who touch the processes) to analyze problems, test changes, efficiently measure results and implement change.

As a Quality Improvement Team Leader, you will work with senior organizational leaders to commission quality improvement projects, report on results, solve problems, implement organization-wide, and sustain changes.

The domains of focus for this role may include patient safety, quality of care, hospital ranking/reputation, and performance-based reimbursement, regulatory, accreditation and licensure, and/or medical staff quality.

In order to be considered for this role, we'll need you to have the following:

• At least 3 years' experience (preferably in healthcare organization) applying scientific quality improvement methods in the workplace
• Master's Degree required in the fields of Nursing, Public Health, Health Policy, Business Administration, Health Administration, Physical Sciences, Technology, or a field related to quality engineering or business process improvement
• If you are a clinical candidate (RN, Pharmacist, PA, or NP), we'll need you to have a current Maryland license in your area of clinical practice
• Certification (or complete certification within your first year) in at least one of the following: Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), or Certified Joint Commission Professional (CJCP)

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Johns Hopkins Health System and its affiliates are drug-free workplace employers.