Clinical Optimization - Innovation Consultant
Primary Location Hyattsville, Maryland
Worker Location Flexible
Job Number 1351064 Date posted 04/30/2025
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Description:
Consults with operational leaders to identify workflow efficiencies and standardization, internalization opportunities, and productivity standards. Collaborates with other departments to identify and implement tactics to improve ease of access to care and increase revenue capture. Identifies innovation opportunities in workflows and in care delivery models. Leads dissemination of new knowledge related to care delivery innovation to internal and external audiences.
Job Summary:
Consults with operational leaders to identify workflow efficiencies and standardization, internalization opportunities, and productivity standards. Collaborates with other departments to identify and implement tactics to improve ease of access to care and increase revenue capture. Identifies innovation opportunities in workflows and in care delivery models. Leads dissemination of new knowledge related to care delivery innovation to internal and external audiences.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with regional clinical operations leaders to identify workflow efficiencies and standardization. Leads the planning and implementation of appropriate strategies to address internalization efforts.
- Leads development of productivity standards, in collaboration with other key stakeholders.
- Identifies and implements strategies for improving revenue capture through proper clinical care delivery (ex. Improved nursing documentation).
- Identifies and implements strategies for improving access to care (ex. nurse schedule improvements, seamless hand-offs, up-skilling of staff).
- Represents clinical practice viewpoints on regional committees (ex. Medication Safety, Code Blue, RQIC).
- Identifies innovation opportunities for care delivery, including development of new care delivery models. Includes writing grant proposals for testing of proposed models.
- Research and publication related to innovations in care delivery.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:
Experience
- Minimum seven (7) years of nursing experience required.
- Minimum three (3) years of consulting or supervisory/management experience required.
Education
- Masters degree business administration, nursing or health care administration required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Registered Nurse License (Virginia) OR Compact License: Registered Nurse OR Registered Nurse License (Maryland)
- Registered Nurse License (District of Columbia)
Additional Requirements:
- Experience in and understanding of health care delivery in an ambulatory setting required.
- Experience setting productivity standards and designing care delivery models.
- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills required.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Word & PowerPoint and intermediate knowledge of MS Excel required.
- Excellent writing skills required.
- Demonstrated mastery of quantitative methods required.
- Must be able to work effectively with a variety of departments and leadership levels.
- Must demonstrate exceptional customer service attitudes, including a can do approach.
- Must be able to independently problem-solve and develop creative solutions.
- Must be a champion for innovation and change.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in managed care setting preferred.
- Health care consulting experience preferred.
- Experience in policy and/or nursing competency development strongly preferred.
- Publication in a major trade journal.
- Grant writing experience.
- Experience in health care research/health policy.
- Innovating or testing care delivery modeling experience.
- Understanding of nursing regulatory and scope of practice requirements strongly preferred.
- Doctoral degree in health care or related field preferred.
- Prefer experience in maternal-child health. Prefer DNP or APRN
Primary Location: Maryland,Hyattsville,New Carrollton Administration
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-MAS-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: New Carrolltn Admin - Nursing Administration - 1808
Pay Range: $126800 - $164010 / year
Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home.
Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.
At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. Submit Interest
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. Submit Interest
