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Accreditation Regulatory & Licensing Specialist IV (PMG)

Primary Location Pasadena, California Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $115400 - $149270 / year
Job Number 1393935 Date Posted 01/05/2026
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Job Summary:

Conducts regulatory audits and surveys by independently reporting and keeping current on regulatory requirements in preparation for surveys. Organizes, coordinates, and conducts facilitation of on-site visits and evaluations. Performs site visits in accordance with criteria to ensure survey readiness. Ensures completion of surveys, independently. Conducts routine audits and mock surveys to aid in preparedness, tracking, trending, and facilitation of corrective action plans. Collaborates with others to complete annual reporting. Ensures licensing and accreditation by reviewing requirements for new, expanding, and existing facilities/services in relation to relevant accrediting standards, evaluating relevant impact independently. Consults with departments to ensure certification and conducts moderately complex gap analyses. Serves as the subject matter expert by maintaining and facilitating awareness of internal policies and consulting on the interpretation and interaction of current policies, and how they interact with the current climate, and potential changes to regulations and legislation. Develops moderately complex content and delivers education programs to align policies with regulatory requirements. Conducts data management by entering and analyzing practitioner/provider data. Independently drafts and provides consultative expertise on implementation of action plans for timely implementation.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.

  • Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.

  • Serves as the subject matter expert for regulations within assigned departments by: maintaining awareness of current internal policies and external regulations, and legislation; actively contributing consultative guidance on the enforcement of regulations and auditing processes; developing moderately complex content and delivering educational programs to align organizational policies and procedures with regulatory requirements; providing consultation on the interpretation, interaction, and implementation of current policies, regulations, and legislation, with guidance from senior colleagues; and identifying and escalating issues and seeking input from leadership to resolve.

  • Conducts data management and reporting support by: entering practitioner/provider data into the appropriate database; and entering, analyzing, and independently drafting action plans/recommendations required data into appropriate databases and providing consultative expertise during implementation of action plans.

  • Ensures licensing and accreditation by: independently reviewing requirements for new, existing, and expanding facilities/services to aid in achievement of compliance with state, federal, and accrediting standards; consulting with other departments to ensure certification for moderately complex cases; and independently conducting a nuanced gap analysis and mentoring others to identify services renewals and planning to ensure services are compliant.

  • Conducts regulatory audits and surveys by: independently reporting moderately complex and keeping current on regulatory requirements in preparation for surveys (e.g., NCQA, Joint Commission, AAAHC); coordinating with departments and external representatives to organize and support on-site visits and evaluations; independently conducting, reviewing, evaluating upon site visit criteria, and performing site visits as appropriate to ensure survey readiness; delivering requested audit documentation, information, and reports; coordinating with stakeholders within designated department to ensure the completion of required auditing surveys, focusing on high vulnerability areas; aiding in the facilitation of educational forums and conducting standard routine audits and mock surveys within departments to ensure auditing and survey preparedness; tracking, trending, and facilitating the development of corrective action plans (CAP) as necessary in collaboration with applicable departments to assure site visit compliance; and collaborating with other departments (e.g., Revenue Cycle), gathering documents and data to support the timely completion of the annual state/federal/regulatory body reporting as required.
Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum one (1) year experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

  • Minimum two (2) years experience with databases and spreadsheets.

  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Nursing, Public Health, or related field AND Minimum five (5) years experience in health care operations, quality, risk management, hospital environment, or a directly related field OR Minimum eight (8) years experience in health care operations, quality, risk management, hospital environment, or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Compliance Management; Health Care Policy; Health Care Data Analytics; Consulting; Managing Diverse Relationships; Delegation; Project Management; Risk Assessment; Quality Assurance Process; Health Care Quality Standards; Evidence-Based Medicine Principles
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Health care clinical license from the practicing/applicable state (e.g., Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Pharmacist (RPh), Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist, Social Worker).
  • Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ).
Primary Location: California,Pasadena,Walnut Center - Regional Offices 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-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Individual Contributor Department: Regional Offices - Pasadena - Rgnl Mg Admn-Credentialing - 0806 Pay Range: $115400 - $149270 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: Yes, 10 % 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. 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.

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

  • Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

  • Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

  • Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
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