Quality and Safety Program Director – Surgery and Support Services

Job Summary

The Quality/Safety Director for Surgery and Support Services reports to the System QAPI Director and works collaboratively with the Leadership of Surgical-focused ICCE and Support Service areas across MUSC. Under limited supervision, the Quality/Safety Director provides full support to the QAPI/safety program system wide, including collecting relevant quality data, analyzing and assessing data, working with relevant stakeholders on disseminating data and information, benchmarking performance and leading multidisciplinary teams to improve performance based on goals.

The director also collects and presents performance data to oversight and governance groups, leads and oversees all QAPI and regulatory/accreditation activities, monitors and collates patient safety events with operational and clinical leaders, and works with the Risk Management department to facilitate event reviews and appropriate after review actions.

This position leads and oversees all QAPI and regulatory/accreditation activities, monitors patient safety events, leads multidisciplinary teams, and manages a team of Quality and Safety Officers, managers, coordinators, data analysts, and registry staff.

Surgical-focused ICCE and Support Services include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Periop/Anesthesia
• Surgical Subspecialty and Spine (S3)
• Musculoskeletal (MSK)
• Support Services
• Telehealth
• Pharmacy
• Health & Wellness

Graduation from an accredited graduate program with a healthcare related master’s degree required with at least 5 years’ experience in working in a healthcare organization quality/safety program. Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality or Patient Safety preferred. Computer/internet skills and familiarity with MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.) essential. Experience with LEAN/Six Sigma, certification preferred. Experience with Just Culture required, certification preferred.

Experience with Epic EMR preferred. Experience with in the Surgical Specialty Care field is strongly preferred.

Graduation from an accredited clinical program (RN, MD, Pharm

D) with a healthcare related master’s degree required. Seven to ten years of experience in quality-related healthcare field. Leadership/management experience required. Certification as Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality or Patient Safety and Just Culture preferred.

Entity:
Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type:
Employee

Worker Sub-Type:
Regular

Cost Center: CC002352 SYS - QAPI

Pay Rate Type:
Salary

Pay Grade:
Health-33

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40

Work Shift:

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