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Job Summary

Facilitates multidisciplinary improvement teams, gathers data, performs research, completes analytics and compiles best practice information while providing project management for operational and clinical staff to achieve transformational strategic and tactical project results. Focused efforts within a single system platform, to achieve improved patient experience, safety, staff satisfaction, quality, timeliness and efficiency improvement while achieving a favorable value.

Job Duties

• Consistently achieves project outcomes at target goals and reaches stretch goals frequently through consistent follow-through, creative problem solving, removing barriers and tenacious focus on results.

• Hardwires process improvements and embeds process and outcome metrics in improvement initiatives that: draw data electronically from clinical and administrative records, are presented in easy to understand graphic format, and have sufficient detail to identify specific sources of actionable opportunity.

• Analyzes and identifies opportunities in clinical, operational and financial processes.

• Streamlines clinical, operational and financial processes and workflows to drive efficiency.

• Assesses the stakeholder environment and works with project sponsors and leaders to build the support and will to address improvement opportunities among staff, providers and leaders, e.g. RACI tool.

• Develops relationships to achieve important change with staff, providers and leaders.

• Facilitates multidisciplinary project teams and is able to support accountable leaders in managing project teams.

• Uses analytic, experiential and subjective assessment skills to identify substantial performance improvement opportunities within assigned projects.

• Identifies and applies relevant best practice improvement tools and solutions from prior training and experience, internal best practices, literature and external research and applies them to current projects; innovates on selective components of best practice approaches.

• Collaborates with others to utilize expertise from multiple sources, including external to the project team.

• Documents work products and methodologies to enable analysis and knowledge transfer.

• Continuously seeks to improve personal performance through managing biannually updated development plan.

Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

This posting reflects an opening for Improvement Optimization Advisor Associate and we are seeking candidates for that position. Geisinger reserves the right to consider applicants for higher level based on their skills, qualifications, and experience. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.

Education

Bachelor's Degree-Healthcare Related Degree (Required)

Experience

Minimum of 2 years-Related work experience (Required)

Certification(s) and License(s)

Six Sigma Certified - American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Skills

Working Independently; Leads Others; Critical Thinking; Builds Relationships; Waterfall Model

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.

EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.

LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.

INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.