Director Quality and Clinical Effectiveness

Overview

UnityPoint-St Luke's

Full-Time Days

Monday-Friday

The Director, Quality and Clinical Effectiveness is the Market leader with responsibility for overall quality and clinical effectiveness of their Market, with ultimate accountability residing with the Market CNO and Market CMO clinical dyad. The position reports to the Market Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) with a matrixed reporting to the System Vice President, Quality and Clinical Effectiveness. The Director, Quality and Clinical Effectiveness will assist the Market CMO and Market CNO to set the Market quality agenda, monitor performance across care settings, and prioritize improvement opportunities as the Market improves performance in partnership with the System CMO and CNO.

Leadership responsibilities include, but are not limited to quality, clinical effectiveness, high reliability care pathways, risk management, regulatory and accreditation, performance improvement, clinical informatics, and infection prevention. This leader will partner closely with the System leaders for all of these areas with the System setting strategy and the Market operationalizing in a Market-specific meaningful way.

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in. Here are just a few:

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.
• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.
• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

• Provide leadership to create an exceptional culture of clinical effectiveness that empowers caregivers and providers to deliver the highest quality care, demonstrated through reduced harm and errors and achievement of short and long-term Market and System goals.
• Oversight of process improvements to develop and deploy efficient, effective, and high-reliability care delivery pathways that result in marketable improved clinical outcomes to quality of care resulting in sustainable financial gains.
• Act as a leader in change management by exhibiting a strong, positive advocacy for cultural change and directing the activities of others in a manner consistent with, and in support of, a culture of psychological Partners with affiliates to ensure organization wide program initiatives are deployed effectively through standardization and implementation of best practices.
• Work closely with the Market CNO and Market CMO to align the System’s clinical performance goals around accountability and consistency of clinical excellence standards and practices. Work collaboratively with System-wide leaders, including but not limited to; safety and quality leaders, infection preventionists and risk management teams to deploy and engage in safety and quality oversight and improvement efforts. Serve as a contact person for colleagues and affiliates.
• Conducts regular reviews of the Market’s clinical performance, providing expectations, planning, feedback, training and development for operations.
• Collaborates with Risk Managers in root cause analysis activities, evaluating sentinel and other adverse events by reviewing, investigating and analyzing safety events and near misses to ensure appropriate system improvements are taken to prevent recurrences. Responsible for resource management including recruitment, retention, performance management,…