Manager, Children's Quality and Safety

Manager, Childrens Quality and SafetyReq #:0000169064

Category:Professional / Management

Status:Full-Time

Shift:Day

Facility:RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Services

Department:Pediatric Services

Location:

System Business Office, 2 Crescent Place, Oceanport, NJ 07757

Job Overview:

The Manager, Childrens Quality and Safety provides leadership to performance improvement activities across the health systems pediatric inpatient and outpatient programs.

The manager works to develop and reinforce a culture of quality and safety and establishes processes to set quality goals and monitor and evaluate progress in attaining them.

Qualifications:

Required:

3 years experience in healthcare quality improvement activity.

Experience with quality improvement databases/tools such as Vizient.

A proven ability to build consensus and motivate teams of diverse, multidisciplinary, and multi-departmental stakeholders.

Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively at all levels of a complex organization.

Ability to communicate information in a clear and concise manner that is comprehensible to a wide range of stakeholders.

Ability to utilize metrics and technology in a way that drives excellence, supports operations and facilitates integration across a historically disparate organization.

Preferred:

Registered Nurse.

Certified Professional Healthcare Quality.

Training and experience in Lean Six Sigma, High Reliability Organizations and similar improvement approach.

Scheduling Requirements:

Full-time

Day

Essential Functions:

Manage performance improvement activities across the systems pediatric hospitals and ambulatory settings.

Provide leadership to pediatric quality improvement team.

Work through collaboration with quality improvement staff at hospital/ambulatory centers to review or establish facility-specific pediatric quality and patient safety metrics and goals.

Manage, monitor, and evaluate pediatric outcomes.

Develop dashboards to track status.

Establish and oversee processes for data collection, submission and analysis.

In collaboration with hospital leadership and front line staff, they develop and implement interventions to improve outcomes with the aim of achieving highly reliable care and systems.

Ensure that every pediatric inpatient unit, primary care practice and subspecialty division is engaged in quality improvement initiatives that improve the different dimensions of care delivery including patient safety, care effectiveness, patient experience and value.

Drive cross-functional engagement, implementation and evaluation of clinical quality and safety initiatives that support patient care, and provide leadership in maintaining an institutional culture of safety.

Effectively partner with nursing and medical leadership to determine improvement priorities that are in alignment with organizational goals.

Provide leadership to the systems Childrens Health Quality and Safety Council.

Work to reduce pediatric sentinel events and serious safety events, by utilizing HRO tools and methods to review facility incident reports and establish a standard approach to safety event classification for patient safety and emotional safety events.

Identify actionable trends in aggregate data and drive corrective action plans.

Facilitate system participation in national pediatric quality initiatives for both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

E.g., AAP EQIPP, AAP VIP, VON, SPS, NSQIP-Pediatric, Improve Care Now, etc.

Coordinate compliance efforts with quality and safety measures through data collection, dashboard monitoring and analysis of metrics required for accreditations and external organizations.

E.g., US News and World Report, AHRQ, Leapfrog, etc.

Develop strong working teams.

Inspire team members to engage in improvements that achieve high outcomes and work to ensure there are zero events of preventable harm.

Mentor and coach pediatric team members.

Be a recognized resource for consultation with the pediatric leadership teams by establishing, enhancing, and maintaining a quality standard of care based on national bench-marking and comparison with other institutions.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Benefits and Perks:

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Retirement Plans

Short- & Long-Term Disability

Life & Accidental Death Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Wellness Programs

Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)

Discounts through our partners, such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

Choosing RWJBarnabas Health!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer