SQPE Specialist I

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Job Title

SQPE Specialist I

Location

Euclid

Facility

Euclid Hospital

Department

Enterprise SQPE-Clinical and Operational Improvement

Job Code

T97901

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:00am-5:00am

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Euclid Hospital offers a complete continuum of care, including emergency services, rehabilitation and outpatient care. Here, you will work alongside a team of dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Cleveland Clinic strives to be an international leader in patient safety. As a Safety Quality and Patient Experience (SQPE) Specialist, you will direct our safety, quality and patient experience work. In this role, you will gain ample resources to learn and grow and comprehensive benefits that invest in your health, your physical and mental well-being and your future.  

A caregiver in this position works 8:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday, with no weekend requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Direct safety, quality, and patient experience work within assigned scope of responsibility. 

• Coordinate and implement improvement initiatives using the Cleveland Clinic Improvement Model. 

• Coordinate with cross functional stakeholders to ensure compliance with all standards and favorable performance on safety, quality, utilization, and experience metrics.  

• Participate in engraining the safety, quality, and experience requirements as outlined by regulatory and accreditation bodies. 

• Manage performance improvement regarding SQPE with all departments providing patient care.  

• Understand and implement elements of performance as outlined by regulations, bylaws, and rules and regulations established by the medical staff.  

• Act as the primary resource for staff to facilitate overall operations of programs.  

• Develop meaningful quality assurance and improvement activities with clinical and operations leadership to establish when a deviation in standard practice has occurred.  

• Act as a consultant in educating and evaluating clinical and support department staff regarding quality management regulations and standards of care.  

• Support medical staff quality assurance activities such as peer review, ongoing professional practice evaluation, and focused professional practice evaluation.  

• Incorporate regulatory and accreditation standards into improvement activities around SQPE.  

• Collaborate on development of required plans such as the performance improvement plan, safety plan, infection control plan, and others as required by governance.  

• Incorporate enterprise priorities and regulatory requirements and benchmarks ensuring alignment to one standard of care across locations.  

• Drive continuous improvement activity around quality, safety and patient experience priorities and coordinate improvement projects.  

• Facilitate dashboard reviews, data analysis and decision-making from data.  

• Manage stakeholder relationships, project risks and project changes.  

• Lead projects and facilitate multidisciplinary teams leveraging advanced continuous improvement and project management tools.  

• Coach smaller improvement teams to success with their quality improvement projects at the local level.  

• Report on medical errors/near misses and corrective actions taken.  

• Oversee the management and use of medical error information.  

• Apply the Cleveland Clinic cause analysis process to identify key factors that lead to failures in SQPE.  

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Business, Engineering or a related field  OR five years of related experience with SQPE and performance improvement programs or related healthcare experience 
• Minimum one (1) year of related experience with Safety, Quality, Patient Experience, Accreditation, Risk, Clinical, or Continuous Improvement

• In-depth knowledge of patient safety best practices, Joint Commission standards and conditions of participation 

• Familiarity with basic statistical analysis, continuous improvement tools and change management technique 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Master’s Degree 

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) 

• Certified Patient Safety Professional (CPPS) OR Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ)  

• Healthcare Accreditation Certification Program (HCAP), Certified Joint Commission Professional (CJCP), Process Improvement Certification, Certification in Infection Control (CIC) or Certified Patient Experience Professional (CPXP) 

• Clinical experience  
• Experience in working with Joint Commission, HFAP, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid: Government agency that provides reimbursement for accredited trainees) surveys process preferably in a leadership/coordination role

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.

• Ability to perform work in a stationary position for extended periods.

• Ability to work with physical records or operate a computer or other office equipment.

• In some locations, ability to travel throughout the hospital system.

• In some locations the ability to move up to 25 lbs.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follow standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

                       

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

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