Clinical Quality Improvement Consultant

SUMMARY

As a Clinical Quality Improvement Consultant, you'll play a key role in advancing safe, timely, effective, efficient, and patient-centered care across MD Anderson. You'll bring clinical and quality improvement expertise to quality and safety councils, programs, and projects while partnering with leaders and multidisciplinary teams to identify performance gaps, improve clinical processes, and drive measurable outcomes at one of the world's leading cancer centers.

What's in it for you? This is an opportunity to work across the organization on complex improvement initiatives where your expertise can influence how care is delivered. You'll lead and facilitate interdisciplinary teams, assess current-state clinical workflows, identify improvement opportunities, establish meaningful performance measures, and develop evidence-based solutions. You'll apply Quality Improvement methodologies and tools-including process mapping, Pareto charts, cause-and-effect diagrams, control charts, and basic statistical analysis-to turn clinical data into actionable insights.

You'll also take ownership of projects from definition through implementation and sustainability. You'll develop project aims, milestones, workplans, timelines, data collection plans, and deliverables; analyze baseline and post-intervention results; monitor outcomes at 30, 60, and 90 days; and track the financial and ROI impact of improvement efforts. You'll collaborate closely with Clinical Leaders, Quality and Safety professionals, Healthcare Systems Engineers, and other stakeholders to define current and future-state processes and ensure improvements are practical, measurable, and sustainable.

Beyond project leadership, you'll have the opportunity to serve as a change agent and resource for teams across the organization. You'll provide education and training on quality tools, team facilitation, creative problem-solving, and improvement strategies while helping teams understand and adopt new ways of working. You'll also analyze clinical quality measures aligned with institutional quality and patient safety priorities and escalate high-risk issues and trends for resolution. MD Anderson offers competitive pay, an annual merit increase program, annual incentive opportunities, an employer-funded pension contribution, medical, dental and vision coverage, generous paid time off, and opportunities for professional growth and development.

Bring your clinical expertise, analytical skills, and passion for improvement to a role where you can help transform clinical processes, strengthen patient safety, and create measurable improvements in cancer care.

JOB SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

Technical and Clinical Expertise

Utilizes Quality Improvement models, methodologies and tools to improve the quality of clinical care.

Performs analysis of current state clinical work structure, processes and performance deltas to determine focus for improvement project.

Identifies project measures using evidenced based best practices for benchmarking and to establish targets.

Use quality tools such as frequency distributions, basic statistics, cause-and-effect diagrams, Pareto charts, process flow charts, check sheets, and control charts

Demonstrates the ability to interpret and apply clinical data (e.g., LOS, readmissions, HAI rates, mortality indices, Patient Experience) to identify performance gaps, and recommend evidence-based solutions.

Guides performance improvements to align with principles of high reliability.

Project Management

Consults and collaborates with Clinical Leaders, Quality/Safety Staff and Healthcare Systems Engineers to facilitate, coach, lead interdisciplinary teams with performance improvement projects.

Provides effective project management with project definition inclusive of:

problem quantification, aim, measures, timeline and deliverables

Baseline and post intervention data graphically displayed

Meets project deliverables in accordance with target timelines.

Develop project milestones and detailed workplans to ensure project success

Contract with clients to ensure a mutual understanding of intended outcomes and roles.

Work with multidisciplinary stakeholders to define current state processes

Collaborate with these stakeholders to develop future state

Design and execute on improvement plans

Develop performance metrics, standards and methods to establish improvement success

Ensure metrics are reachable, practical and, when needed, approved by organizational leadership

Facilitate the collection of metric data from workflows and projects by utilizing sound methodology

Develop data collection plans in collaboration with project stakeholders

Analyze data using appropriate statistical and qualitative methods

Escalate high-risk issues and trends to appropriate party for resolution

Monitors for improvement sustainability utilizing outcome and process measures; 30, 60, 90 days post project summary

Documents project progression and summary results via Department/Division Project tracking venues.

Capture financial and ROI savings for project impacts

Training and Change Management

Provide educational content and delivery of training in quality tools and strategies

Provide training in meeting/team facilitation, group process, creative problem solving.

Act as a change agent for the organization and ensure that process improvement activity is being communicated, understood, and supported

Maintain professional development by expanding knowledge base of methodologies and techniques

Medical Knowledge

Employee demonstrates medical knowledge as defined by position description.

Other duties as assigned

Education
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Healthcare or related field
Preferred:
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Work Experience
Required:
• 4 years of experience in healthcare or related field
Preferred:
• 4 years of nursing experience with 1 year of QI experience

Licenses and Certifications

Required (upon hire):
• RN - Registered Nurse - State Licensure OR
• Licensure, registration, or certification in a medical or healthcare discipline

Preferred (upon hire):
• CPHQ - Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality OR
• CQIA - Cert Quality Improvement Assoc OR
• CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt OR
• PMP - Project Mgt Professional

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center offers excellent benefits , including medical, dental, paid time off , retirement , tuition benefits, educational opportunities, and individual and team recognition.

This position may be responsible for maintaining the security and integrity of critical infrastructure, as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code and therefore may require routine reviews and screening. The ability to satisfy and maintain all requirements necessary to ensure the continued security and integrity of such infrastructure is a condition of hire and continued employment.

It is the policy of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state, or local laws unless such distinction is required by law.

Additional Information

• Requisition ID: 183347
• Employment Status: Full-Time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Work Week: Days
• Minimum Salary: US Dollar (USD) 88,000
• Midpoint Salary: US Dollar (USD) 110,000
• Maximum Salary : US Dollar (USD) 132,000
• FLSA: exempt and not eligible for overtime pay
• Fund Type: Hard
• Work Location: Hybrid Onsite/Remote
• Pivotal Position: Yes
• Referral Bonus Available?: Yes
• Relocation Assistance Available?: Yes

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