Department of Veterans Affairs
Functions as an advanced clinician and executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. They demonstrate sound decision-making and judgment and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
- Major Duties: Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes Demonstrates performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level Incumbent collects data, monitors staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards, provides reports detailing trends, and provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering, a comprehensive quality management program area Participates in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups Performs duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system Duties require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management in directing or supporting a health care delivery system Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility Program is defined as a substantial coordinated group of activities impacting patients and/or employees Responsible for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations Executes the position responsibilities that demonstrate effective leadership, detailed planning, professional communication, creative and innovative approaches to the improvement of safety/healthcare program development and possess an ability to organize priorities The QM Consultant works in concert with leaders and others to sustain a culture of safety, modeling High Reliability Organization (HRO) practices Performs duties directly contributing to high quality and safe patient care within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) The QM Consultant directly supports facility leadership in areas of planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of the quality program within the facility VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Adhoc Eligible Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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