Quality Improvement Consultant - Brampton, Canada - William Osler Health System

William Osler Health System

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Brampton, Canada

3 weeks ago

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One of Canada's Best Diversity Employers and Greater Toronto's Top Employers for many consecutive years, William Osler Health System (Osler) provides a safe and supportive health care network to grow your career.

Osler is nationally recognized for its commitment to patient safety and is Accredited with Exemplary Standing, the highest rating a Canadian hospital can receive.

As a major Ontario hospital system, and home to some of the biggest specialty and emergency departments in the country, Osler serves the 1.3 million residents of Brampton, Etobicoke and surrounding communities.

We are proud to offer you incredible exposure to best-in-class health care delivery and challenging hands-on opportunities to stay at the top of your game.

A hospital system built for and by the community, we continue to expand our services to meet the needs of a growing population, creating opportunities for increased hands-on skills development, cross-department training and promotional opportunities.

Guided by our accomplished senior leadership team, together we are driving our vision of patient-inspired health care without boundaries.

At Osler, we invest in careers that go beyond where health care professionals like you can achieve their goals and find deep personal and professional fulfillment.

Join our team today

Reporting to the Director, Quality and Patient Safety, the Quality Improvement Consultant has a keen interest and demonstrated experience in leading quality improvement and patient safety activities.

This role will be responsible for supporting corporate quality improvement and patient safety initiatives and working with the organizational leadership and staff to create policies and procedures that ensure good quality care and minimizes patient harm.

You collaborate with key stakeholders to implement solutions for identified improvement opportunities, you map out new processes, test changes for improvement; analyze, interpret and disseminate data as it is related to clinical practice, patient safety and quality.

You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong relationship-building, facilitation, and negotiation skills and have an astute ability to prioritize and complete multiple projects simultaneously.

The Quality Improvement Consultant contributes to the leadership of the Quality and Patient Safety Program in supporting a corporate continuous performance improvement culture resulting in enhanced quality care, patient safety and a positive patient experience.

Accountabilities:

Support key corporate or local quality improvement and patient safety initiatives
Provide proactive identification and prioritization of improvement and efficiency opportunities
Support continuous improvement focused on such areas as clinical appropriateness of care, efficiency, effectiveness, workflow, access to care, continuity of care, safety and patient experience
Develop and identify performance and outcome indicators
Assist teams with collection, interpretation, analysis and presentation of performance data
Provide corporate and local education, training and support to staff and physicians to ensure quality knowledge and skill is developed, advanced and spread throughout Osler
Make presentations meeting
Participates in quality of care review of clinical issues, facilitates discussions and recommends changes
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of corporate patient safety standards and Accreditation Canada required organizational practices
Promote a culture of safety in consultation with others
Assist the organization towards an individual and systembased accountability environment for responding to incidents and near misses

Qualifications

Undergraduate degree required in a healthrelated discipline, engineering or a combination of project management and LEAN certification
Member of a Regulated College in Ontario preferred
Minimum two years quality improvement experience
Minimum of three years clinical experience to understand the patient care process Patient Safety Officer certification preferred
Certified Risk Management designation an asset
Solid understanding of and experience with Accreditation methodology preferred
Data management and statistical experience desirable
Proven ability to remain uptodate with health care quality assurance trends, practices and legislation
Experience in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data for the purposes of quality improvement
Experience in managing broad (e.g. hospitalwide) improvement projects
Demonstrated understanding of quality improvement and patient safety methodologies
Demonstrated success in establishing, leading and maintaining positive change
Demonstrated excellent interpersonal, organizational, problemsolving and communication skills
Demonstrated interprofessional team leadership and conflict resolution/negotiation skills at all levels of the organization
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