Patient Experience Consultant

Kids Are Our Everything. Department: 10284 Patient & Family Experience Pay Range: $82,222.40 - $137,051.20 About the Role: The Patient Experience Consultant leads, conducts and/or facilitates multidisciplinary improvement activities to ensure the highest quality patient experience outcomes for Children’s National Hospital. A specialist in patient experience and patient and family-centered care, this position works in partnership with assigned teams and collaborates with other departments to ensure the organization meets or exceeds the patient experience goals as measured by voluntary surveys. Serves as a role model and authority utilizing a variety of performance improvement strategies. This individual will assist leadership across all service lines to improve patient experience scores. What You’ll Bring: Minimum Education Bachelor’s Degree Healthcare or Business related (Required) Master’s Degree (Preferred) Minimum Work Experience 3 years Healthcare related work (a Master’s degree in Business, Healthcare, Nursing, or other related field may substitute for 3 years of required experience) (Required) 2 years Hospital operations, performance improvement, or project management (Preferred) Required Skills/Knowledge Knowledge of the healthcare industry trends Knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet software, quality improvement concepts, financial and data analysis. Must be detail oriented, analytic, able to facilitate multidisciplinary improvement teams and negotiate conflict. Must be proficient in MS Office Suite; possess excellent interpersonal skills and excellent oral and written communication skills. Functional Accountabilities Performance Improvement: Develops plan for completing required assessment, including project organization, data requirements, involved parties, resource requirements and timeline Provides consultation, team facilitation and leadership to clinical, medical, administrative and interdisciplinary teams regarding performance improvement (PI) methodologies; assisting teams in executing change, achieving desired outcomes, and spreading effective change and redesign Establishes and maintains collaborative working relationships and effective communication to facilitate improvements, fostering collaboration, partnership, innovation, customer service, and effective teamwork Establishes and maintains project implementation plans and project status reports Education Uses data to determine educational needs and program content then develops education plans to close identified knowledge and performance gaps. Trains staff and leaders through process assessment and redesign associated with experience strategy Mentors staff and leaders through training and project work. Responsible for successful closure of projects. Data Management Assists teams in collecting, aggregating then analyzing data, and developing realistic improvement plans. Collaborating with team members, develops metrics, data tools, and effective reports to facilitate decision-making and spur improvement. Creates measurements to fit processes that can be used to monitor effectiveness and further improvements. Benefits That Support You: Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, prescription, infertility, and transgender health services. Generous paid time off, including vacation accrual from day one, sick leave, holidays, and a personal day. Financial wellness support, including a 401(k) plan and healthcare and dependent care spending accounts. Employer-paid life, AD&D, and long-term disability coverage, with optional supplemental plans. Additional perks, including tuition assistance, fitness resources, employee assistance, commuter benefits, and more. Why Join Us: Nationally Recognized Excellence - Consistently ranked among the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Leading Pediatric Care - One of the largest and most comprehensive children’s hospitals in the country, offering nationally ranked specialties and cutting-edge treatments. Innovation & Research - A premier academic medical center with a strong commitment to pediatric research, education, and advancing the future of child health. Mission-Driven Culture - Dedicated to providing family-centered care while fostering a collaborative, supportive environment for clinical teams. The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible. Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster. Please note that it is the policy of Children’s National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). 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