Quality / Infection Control RN Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Are you passionate about healthcare and looking to start the next chapter in your career? Are you interested in a rare opportunity to reopen an established and well-respected hospital in a brand-new facility and provide the service and care to the community that larger institutions don’t? Do you want to work for an employer that values you and offers an award-winning company culture, work-life balance, and opportunities for advancement?

If you answered “yes” to the above, we want to hear from you! We are New Orleans’ premier boutique surgical hospital, and we are looking for talented and experienced candidates to immediately join our team ahead of our upcoming reopening. Summary

The Quality Manager shall promote and support the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program and be responsible for developing and establishing quality procedures, standards and specifications for the hospital.

Essential Functions

• Ensures that processes needed for the Quality Management System (QMS) are established, implemented and maintained.
• Reports to top management on the performance of the QMS and any need for improvement via management review.
• Acts as a liaison with the accreditation body on all matters related to the external accreditation process.
• Ensures that a document control procedure is adopted to approve, review and update all changes to critical documents within the scope of the QMS.
• Ensures that records are established and maintained to provide evidence that the QMS is being followed and that there is a system in place for the identification, storage, protection, retrieval, retention time and disposition of such records.
• Ensures that the performance of the QMS is reviewed at planned intervals to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.
• Ensures that Quality Objectives are set by top management for measuring the performance of the QMS and that these are regularly reviewed.
• Ensures that all suppliers used by the organization are selected, evaluated and re-evaluated and that records of this assessment are maintained.
• Ensures that an internal audit program is adopted to verify that the QMS conforms to policies and procedures and is effectively implemented and maintained; takes appropriate action when this is not the case.
• Analyzes data on the effectiveness of the QMS and evaluates where continual improvements of the QMS can be made.
• Coordinates continual improvement of the QMS, ensuring that evidence of corrective and preventative actions taken are recorded and reviewed.
• Performs all aspects of Quality Management according to the hospital’s Quality Management Policy and the Quality Manager’s job description.
• Ensures that there are appropriate processes throughout the hospital to effectively communicate the hospital’s Quality Policy.
• Promotes Quality Management awareness throughout the hospital and provides education as needed.
• Participates as an active member on at least one hospital committee that improves overall quality.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

Required Education and Experience

Required Skills and Certifications