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The Home Health -Quality, Safety & Education Coordinator will lead the quality and safety initiatives for Memorial Home Health through collaboration with Memorial Health System Quality and Safety Department.  Coordinates and facilitates the quarterly MHSvc performance improvement, infection control and safety initiatives through data collection, analysis and reporting.  Monitors effectiveness of audit results in relation to CMS and Joint Commission regulations.  Develop and maintain operation dashboards for Home Health.  Responsible for research, knowledge of individual area work flows, department and system policies and environmental changes.  Serves as a resource person to Clinical Managers/Director. 

Education:

• Graduate from accredited school of nursing
• BSN preferred

Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• Registered nurse license in IL required.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt strongly preferred.
• Must have a valid IL driver's license and must be deemed as an acceptable driver in accordance with the MHS Fleet Safety Policy (five year MVR will be required)

Experience:

• Minimum two years clinical experience required. Previous experience in quality, safety, and/or education/training preferred. 

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Accountability: Ability to hold people accountable to standards of performance or ensure compliance using the power of one's position or force of personality appropriately and effectively, with the long-term good of the organization in mind.
• Achievement Orientation: A concern for surpassing standards of excellence. Standards may involve past performance (striving for improvement); objective measures (results orientationchallenging goals, or redefining the nature of the standards themselves (innovation).
• Analytical Thinking: Developing a deeper understanding of a situation, issue or problem by breaking it down or tracing its implications step-by-step. It includes organizing the parts of a situation, issue or problem systematically; making systematic comparisons of different feature or aspects; setting priorities on a rational basis; and identifying time sequences, casual relationships, or if-then relationships.
• Communication: Ability to use written and spoken communication in formal and informal situations to convey meaning, build shared understanding, and productively move agendas forward.
• Community Collaboration: Ability to align one's own and the organization's priorities with the needs and values of the community, including its cultural and ethnocentric values, and to move health forward in line with population-based wellness needs and national health agenda.
• Intellectual Curiosity: Underlying curiosity and desire to know more about things, people, and issues, including the desire for knowledge and staying current with health, organizational, industry, and professional trends and developments. It includes pressing for more precise information; resolving discrepancies by asking a series of questions; and scanning for potential opportunities or information that may be of future use, as well as staying current and seeking best practices for adoption.
• Initiative: Ability to identify a problem, obstacle or opportunity and then take action in light of identification to address current or future problems or opportunities. Initiative emphasizes proactively doing things and no simply thinking about future actions.
• Innovation: Ability to approach one's work and the organization in new and breakthrough ways, including applying complex concepts, developing creative new solutions, or adapting previous solutions in promising ways.
• Performance Measurement: Ability to understand and use statistical and financial methods and metrics to set goals and measure clinical as well as organizational performance; commitment to and employment of evidence based techniques.
• Process and Quality Management: Ability to analyze and design or improve an organizational process, including incorporating the principles of high reliability, continuous quality improvement, and user-centered design.
• Professional and Social Responsibility: Demonstration of ethics, sound professional practices, social accountability, and community stewardship. Acting in ways that are consistent with one's values and what one says is important.
• Self-Awareness: Ability to have an accurate view of one's own strengths and development needs, including the impact that one has on others; willingness to address development needs through reflective, self-directed learning, and by trying new approaches.
• Self-Confidence: Possesses a belief in one's own capability to accomplish their work. This includes confidence in one's ability as expressed in increasingly challenging circumstances, and confidence in one's decisions or opinions.