Sutter Health · 19 hours ago
Quality Effectiveness Consultant, Home Health
Saratoga, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$69.81/hr - $104.71/hr
8+ years expSutter Health is a healthcare organization dedicated to improving patient care and outcomes. They are seeking a Quality Effectiveness Consultant to lead clinical performance improvement strategies, provide consultation and guidance for quality improvement projects, and facilitate the development of metrics and dashboards to measure clinical outcomes.
Health CareHospitalNon Profit
Responsibilities
Provides clinical leadership, direction, consultation, guidance and support for performance improvement strategies to improve treatment and care of patients with specific disease processes
Leads and facilitates the development, deployment, and monitoring of clinical quality improvement projects, patient safety improvement initiatives, and organization improvements to achieve top decile clinical outcomes
Assigned to specific performance improvement teams, to provide clinical expertise, performance improvement consultation, analysis, gap assessment, group/team facilitation and development, and guidance for the dissemination of practices that result in improved clinical outcomes
Consults and coaches process owners, value stream owners, paired leaders and sponsors as well as improvement team members
Contributes to the development of clinical metrics, dashboards, and scorecards used to measure clinical improvement
Contributes to the development of change management plans including stakeholder engagement, communications, training and implementation/adoption in alignment with the enterprise performance management system
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's: Healthcare Administration, Business or related field or equivalent education/experience
8 years recent relevant experience
Thorough knowledge of health care delivery and quality improvement is required, including clinical care management and/or quality management
Knowledge of lean performance improvement methodology and management systems
Demonstrated ability in leading, facilitating and developing effective teams
Demonstrated skills in consulting, group process facilitation, whole system design, negotiation, change management and conflict resolution
Demonstrated ability to successfully influence and develop effective working relationships with healthcare executives, physician and clinical leaders
Communication skills (verbal, written and listening) with ability to interact effectively across the organization, especially in situations requiring instructing, persuading, negotiating, resolving conflict, consulting and advising
Must be comfortable speaking in public to various audiences
Skilled in teaching improvement concepts and principles to diverse audiences from senior management to front line staff
Ability to teach and consult with physician, nurses, and quality leaders about outcome data is required
Demonstrated track record of successfully working with and motivating diverse work teams, including physicians and nurses
Skills and experience in solving complex problems and developing actionable solutions/recommendations
Demonstrated ability to facilitate planning sessions with senior executives, directors, management and physicians to secure high level sponsorship, support and required resources for improvement initiatives
Demonstrated ability to gather and analyze clinical data and prepare relevant reports
Ability to read and interpret data; translates data into meaningful information and uses data to shape work at both the department and enterprise level; possesses analytical and critical thinking skills. demonstrated ability to interpret the strength of research findings/evidence
Analytic skills, negotiation, and problem solving skills are required
Must be detail oriented, self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision
Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written. Experience in addressing large audiences
Highly respected team player/learner. possess a desire and ability to rapidly learn and apply new learnings
Ability to gain cooperation and support through effective use of influence and persuasion required
Must demonstrate a customer service focus in all decisions and actions
Must be proficient in all standard Microsoft Office applications
Preferred
Completion of MCE preferred (internal candidates only)
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Sutter Health
Sutter Health is a non-profit organization operating a network of hospitals and physicians in Northern California.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (19)
2024 (16)
2023 (14)
2022 (21)
2021 (24)
2020 (30)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$27.17MKey Investors
Department of Health Care Services
2025-05-19Grant· $23M
2016-11-22Grant· $1.2M
2013-10-09Grant· $2M
Leadership Team
Megan Gillespie
Chief Executive Officer
Warner L. Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
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