GENERAL SUMMARY:
With guidance and direction of their leadership, the Facilitator -Clinical Quality I
performs project work of a complex nature with interdisciplinary groups that include
administrators, nursing and medical leaders. Co-leads large system teams and lead
projects at a business unit level. Acts as a consultant or facilitator on regulatory, disease
certification, patient safety and quality issues. With guidance, designs and delivers
educational programs to assist employees, physicians and leadership, meet safety and
quality goals.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ability to direct, facilitate and coordinate the design and implementation of clinical
  quality and patient safety initiatives, programs and projects at the business unit level;
  provide project management support to clinical improvement initiatives.
• Assesses project needs based on evidenced based best practice(s) and/or
  regulatory standards; Guides the selection of appropriate team members to address
  project needs; Guides and/or develops a work plan including timelines; Ensures
  teams are organized through meeting agendas and a method to document goals,
  responsibility and progress; Demonstrates the ability to develop an effective
  communication plan (including education if appropriate);Seeks leadership guidance
  appropriately to assist with the identification of obstacles/barriers to success.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the science of process improvement
  and provides formal and informal consultation to all members of the health care
  team and support staff, external customers (including students), and administrative
  staff in process improvement methodologies, performance measurement, sustain
  and spread methodologies
• Applies various quality improvement processes/tools and ability to initiate, design,
  and develop process improvement projects and programs based on organizational
  needs; Researches "best practices" as initial step; Assists in choice of appropriate
  measures; Assists in design of the methodology for data collection; Assists in
  analysis and interpretation of data; Guides testing of changes, and specifically small
  tests of change