Behavioral Health Consultant
Company: Kaiser
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: May 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Coordinates quality, accreditation, regulatory and licensing
(AR&L), patient safety and risk management activities for the
medical center. Provides clinical, educational, consulting, and
coordinating support to assigned areas. Uses nurses licensure as a
substantial amount of scientific knowledge or technical skill for
indirect patient care services that ensure the safety, comfort,
personal hygiene, and protection of patients; and the performance
of disease prevention and restorative measures.
Essential Responsibilities:
Acts as a consultant for quality, AR&L, risk, patient safety,
and infection prevention activities and programs.
Assists with quality management studies through data collection,
data input and report development.
Analyzes, interprets and provides recommendation based on quality
principles.
Organize and coordinate project planning, group process
facilitation, training, and appropriate application of information
technology.
Reports all occurrences which may lead to medical center liability
and follows up as necessary.
Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration for implementation of
evidence based guidelines, criteria and other clinical tools to
reduce variation in clinical practice and to optimize clinical
outcomes.
Educates physicians and staff regarding regional projects or
regulatory reviews, i.e. the interpretation of regulatory
requirements and the methods of compliance when preparing for a
review or the interpretation of project goals.
Analyzes risk management/patient safety principles and provides
recommendations for the incorporation of risk management principles
in each medical center.
Provides support services to appropriate medical center staff in
implementing risk management principles into credentialing
processes.
Participates in special projects as assigned, such as statistical
reports for state, federal, and local agencies.
Applies the appropriate performance improvement methodology to
address improvement opportunity (eg. MFI, Lean DMAIC).
May support infection prevention and control activities.
Supports maintenance of IC records and policy/procedure manual
reviews and revisions.
Supports the medical centers continuous survey readiness program to
maintain compliance with regulatory standards.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience Minimum three (3) years of combined experience in
quality, risk management, patient safety, infection prevention,
accreditation/regulation, licensing or operational clinical
leadership in a healthcare setting.
Education Bachelors degree in nursing, business administration,
economics, health care administration, operation research, public
health administration, or other related field.
License, Certification, Registration Registered Nurse License
(California) required at hire
Additional Requirements: CIC certificate required within three (3)
years, if primary job focus is Infection Control.
Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership
environment.
Preferred Qualifications: Minimum of three (3) years experience
working in quality operations in an acute care setting.
Masters degree preferred.
Quality/ Risk/Patient Safety/Just Culture/Project
Management/Lean/IP certification.
PrimaryLocation : California,Fremont,Fremont Hospital
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 04:30 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-NCAL-09-NUE-Non Union
Employee
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Nursing Licensed & Nurse Practitioners
Department : Fremont Hospital - Hosp Adm-Quality Improvement -
0201
Travel : Yes, 25 % of the Time
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a
diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation,
national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry,
disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information,
other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or
any other protected status.
Keywords: Kaiser, Beaverton , Behavioral Health Consultant, Professions , Beaverton, Oregon
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