Quality Improvement Team Leader

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Suburban Hospital is a 228-bed, Level II Trauma Center, and a community-based hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Suburban Hospital is a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine and has served Montgomery County and the surrounding area for more than 65 years. The designated trauma center for Montgomery County, Suburban Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and has earned ANCC Magnet Recognition for nursing excellence.

Schedule: Full-time, Day shifts, No weekends

What You Will Do:

Quality Improvement Team Leaders (QITLs) are national leaders in high-reliability, quality improvement methodology, and interdisciplinary activities to end preventable harm, to continuously improve patient outcomes and experience, and to eliminate waste in health care. The QTLs at Suburban Hospital anticipate risk, foster, and support performance improvement change from several different focus areas. These focus domains may include patient safety, quality of care, hospital ranking/reputation, performance-based reimbursement, regulatory, accreditation and licensure, and medical staff quality. Each incumbent may have a role and responsibilities among these domains.

Responsibility and activities would engage hospital leadership, frontline, quality improvement staff, clinical leaders, physicians, essential services, workforce teams. The incumbent works to achieve success in strategic priority areas and other areas of opportunity as identified or assigned. The QITL leads teams committed to high reliability.

What Awaits You:

Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to help you balance work with life so you can focus on what matters most-your well-being and that of your loved ones. Some of our benefits include:

• Dependent Child Tuition Assistance
• Educational Assistance Program
• Two retirement plans: Retirement Income Plan and 403(b) Savings Plan
• Affordable Healthcare options
• 7 paid holidays each year
• Paid Days Leave (PDL)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• ...and more

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What You Will Bring:

• Master's Degree required in the fields of Nursing, Public Health, Health Policy, Business Administration, Health Administration, Physical Sciences, Technology related to quality engineering or business process improvement.
• Five (5) years of experience applying the skills described above is required. At least three (3) years of this experience (preferably in healthcare originations) must involve the application of scientific quality improvement methods in the workplace.
• Current Maryland licensure or certification in the area of clinical practice. Clinical employees are required to have a current license in the State of Maryland in the areas of clinical expertise they hold (e.g., a Registered Nurse (RN), Pharmacist, or a Physician Assistant (PA), Nurse Practitioner (NP).
• Required Healthcare certification must complete a related accreditation within one year of hire and then maintain the certificate, as needed. May include any of the following: Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), Certified Professional In-Patient Safety (CPPS), or Certified Joint Commission Professional (CJCP).

Salary Range: Minimum 47.50/hour - Maximum 76.00/hour. Compensation will be commensurate with equity and experience for roles of similar scope and responsibility.

In cases where the range is displayed as a $0 amount, salary discussions will occur during candidate screening calls, before any subsequent compensation discussion is held between the candidate and any hiring authority.

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Diversity and Inclusion are Johns Hopkins Medicine Core Values. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, where we embrace and celebrate our differences, where all employees feel valued, contribute to our mission of serving the community, and engage in equitable healthcare delivery and workforce practices.

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