Senior Clinical Performance Improvement Consultant Job in Clackamas, Oregon US
Senior Clinical Performance Improvement Consultant
The Senior Clinical Consultant Level III role provides consulting leadership to medium and small projects and initiatives, thereby supporting Kaiser Permanente Northwest in achieving its performance targets. Manages the clinical consulting and analytical support for these projects and is accountable for the quality of the advice and analysis. Provides support to the completion of major business processes -- operational budgeting, business planning, and capital planning. As a Registered Nurse, the consultant is expected to be knowledgeable about inpatient nursing practices and able to apply that clinical expertise to the project. This includes, but is not limited to, providing input and guidance when creating work flows, facilitating and providing guidance regarding the reasonableness of change requests, tracking and communicating decisions/activities from clinical department work groups to other stake holders. The ideal candidate would be well grounded in clinical practices and project management. This position is located in Portland, Oregon. Essential Functions: - Develop overall engagement work plan, and ensure that assigned tasks and responsibilities are accomplished in a timely manner. - Plan, organize and control multiple responsibilities and resources to achieve project objectives. - Recognize and anticipate scope issues and communicate to client and team changes to the work plan. - Manages projects with limited oversight, using standard project management methodologies. Establishes processes and creates effective project mgmt tools to help guide project efforts and to achieve desired project outcomes. Scopes and develops appropriate project approach. - Leads project teams through complex projects. Identifies issues and works to facilitate resolution. - Anticipate project issues, assess alternatives, and take appropriate measures to resolve in a professional, tactful manner. - Communicate engagement status, progress and impact to client management. - Develop modifications or innovations to address limitations of existing approaches to a problem and / or situation. - Base all recommendations and decisions on fact-based analysis. - Translate client expectations into practical, implementable project objectives, which aim to provide integrated total solutions. - Ensure deliverables meet business objectives, design specifications and quality standards. - Accept and manage ambiguity/complexity in projects, and effectively guide teams in dealing with change barriers and project constraints. - Prepare budget and achieve desired outcome with allocated resources. - Communicate complex information to team members and client, accurately and effectively. - Influence client decisions through written and verbal communications. - Build consensus between departments and business units. - Successfully build, direct and maintain motivated, empowered and diverse teams. - Create a team environment and manages potential conflict. Proactively identifies potentially difficult situations and manages them before they become issues. - Enable team members to develop realistic goals and define methods to support their achievement. - Conduct effective staff review sessions and perform constructive evaluations within an appropriate time frame. - Maximize Team Performance - Team Knowledge Sharing: - Maximize Team Performance - Educate Train: - Stay current on relevant topics/trends, technologies and capabilities. Qualifications: Basic Qualifications: - Manage complex projects or multiple projects of moderate complexity. - Ability to supervise up to 25 team members on projects. - Manage PMO budget, and/or manage moderately large projects. - Use some judgment to review recommendations to organizational problems and determine course of action. - Advanced verbal and written communications methods to convey concepts to team members and clients. - Master's degree or equivalent experience in health care, business administration, or related field required. - Minimum of 5 years of project management, business consulting, or process improvement experience. - Current RN license in Oregon Preferred Qualifications: - Strong proficiency in current software, including spreadsheets, process mapping tools, project workplan tools, charts, graphs, and basic Microsoft applications - Project management certification, preferred (not required) - Six Sigma, Lean Master preferred (not required) - Minimum of 1 year of experience leading or managing people on projects preferred. - Demonstrated process excellence skills (Six Sigma, Lean thinking, etc).