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Code: 13931
Job
Description
Location:
3010 Grand Avenue, Waukegan
Weekly
Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm
Summary:
Implements organization-wide efforts to ensure that quality
improvement (QI) efforts are developed and managed using a data driven focus
that sets priorities for improvements aligned with strategic priorities. The
Continuous Quality Improvement Analyst works with the Continuous Quality
Improvement Coordinator to plan, organize, and direct personnel and work
processes of the quality improvement program and assures staff orientation,
training and use of QI principles and techniques. Maintains responsibility for
the quality management system (QMS), planning and executing quality improvement
efforts, and measuring intervention metrics. Researches and develops QI
training programs that focus on enabling the workforce to achieve improvements
with priority health concerns. Maintains a detailed understanding of and can
skillfully use the techniques of system design, process improvement, project
management, quality improvement, outcomes measurement, and statistical
analysis.
Essential Functions:
· Assists
programs with the development, tracking, implementation, and evaluation of the
Health Department’s Quality Management System (QMS), to include the continuous
assessment and reporting of program elements and recommendations for
improvement.
· Measures
and assesses business unit and program Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in
conjunction with coordinators and staff.
· Maintains
an expertise in utilizing various quality improvement techniques and tools, as
appropriate.
· Communicates
known QI activities to the Continuous Quality Improvement Coordinator and
assures documentation of all QI activities.
· Identifies
best practices and evidence-based strategies to improve services.
· Develops,
organizes, and analyzes data from all programs to identify improvement actions
as part of the quality improvement process.
· Actively
improves the culture of continuous quality improvement throughout the
organization to ensure that agency goals are effectively and efficiently met.
· Assists
with systematizing the development and implementation of policies and
procedures, which reflect continuous quality improvement.
· Promotes
culture of quality improvement with staff, clients, and administration.
· Systematically
applies and teaches the science and theory of project management to achieve
results on time and within budget.
· Participates,
as warranted, in committees, work groups, and task forces to assess, implement,
and improve services.
· Displays
a positive and respectful attitude, behavior, and demeanor toward Health
Department Leadership and co-workers in the accomplishment of job duties.
· Performs
other duties as assigned.
Required Skills
Qualifications/Education:
· Master's
degree in Public Health, Healthcare Quality, Safety or Administration,
Psychology, or related field. Directly related experience may be substituted
for the required degree, on a year-for-year basis.
· At
least 2 years' experience within a public health or healthcare setting.
Job Location: Waukegan, Illinois, United
States
Position
Type: Full-Time/Regular
Salary:
63,800.00 - USD
Applications
will be accepted
This
position is subject to close at anytime
