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SCL Health Continuous Improvement Consultant in Lafayette, Colorado
Job Description:Through coaching and expertise, this position will assist frontline caregivers, managers, and other Continuous Improvement team members in executing improvement initiatives, creating a CI culture and adopting elements of the Intermountain Operating Model.
This position reports to the Director of Continuous Improvement to perform a variety of duties in driving improvement efforts with varying degrees of complexity with system teams and/or within a geographic area. Incumbent will be hired on at a level II, III or Senior, depending on experience.
Position Details:
This role will Support Good Samaritan and Platte Valley Hospitals. Incumbent will work Monday-Friday, during regular business hours and may have the option to work remotely 1 day per week, depending on business needs.
Essential Job Duties 1. Provides coaching on the development, deployment, and integration of the IOM. 2. Plans and leads change by creating action plans for effectively implementing a business initiative. 3. Effectively communicates, presents, and responds to clinical and operational leadership. 4. Supports the development of leader standard work for a variety of leaders that ensures connection back to strategy deployment and prioritized improvement goals. 5. Manages prioritization and expectations of CI work with assigned areas/teams. 6. Effectively plans and facilitates improvement events and initiatives, including overall facilitator guide and breakout team guides, with the potential to cross departments and services. Develops contingency plans so activities or timelines can be readily adjusted when internal or external factors change. 7. Utilizes and teaches others on the use of numerous tools and approaches for problem solving and data collection. Collects, analyzes, and displays data, and to effectively influence improvement actions of teams based on the data. Can drive results with a team in a short amount of time. 8. Supports the strategy deployment cycle including the development and deployment of KPIs, goals, lead measures, and coaching leaders on strategic initiatives. 9. Proactively establishes measurement systems to track implementation steps and results. 10. Facilitates training courses focused on the Intermountain Operating Model, problem solving methodologies, and other event-based trainings. 11. Champions and promotes the CI culture throughout the organization. 12. May assist in interviewing process for new team members.
CI Consultant II Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree obtained through an accredited institution with one (1) year of demonstrated experience in a process improvement role OR Master's Degree obtained through an accredited institution. Education will be verified. Working knowledge of business operations including basic leadership, analytical and financial principles, concepts, and methods Excellent computer skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills Ability to lead projects through an ambiguous, conceptual state to an organized deliverable
CI Consultant III Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree obtained through an accredited institution. Three (3) years of demonstrated experience in a process improvement role. OR Master's Degree obtained through an accredited institution with two (2) years of demonstrated experience in a process improvement role.Education will be verifie Working knowledge of business operations including basic leadership, analytical and financial principles, concepts, and methods Excellent computer skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills Working knowledge of the history, theory and practice of process improvement, including familiarity with a wide range of industry accepted process improvement tools and methodologies Ability to lead projects through an ambiguous, conceptual state to an organized deliverable
CI Senior Consultant Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree obtained through an accredited institution with Five (5) years' demonstrated experience in a process improvement role OR Master's Degree with four (4) years' experience in process improvement. Education will be verified. Advanced knowledge of business operations including leadership, analytical and financial principles, concepts, and methods. Excellent computer skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills. Ability to teach the history, theory and practice of process improvement, including a wide range of industry accepted process improvement tools and methodologies. Ability to lead projects through an ambiguous, conceptual state to an organized deliverable. Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with Senior and Executive leadership. Working knowledge of the history, theory and practice of process improvement, including familiarity with a wide range of industry accepted process improvement tools and methodologies. Familiarity with improvement work in a health care setting. Worked for an organization who has a formal improvement method such as CI,