Establishes and promotes quality and compliance standards to comply withACR/NIUM/State Regulations and guidelines/policies and procedures which support organizational objectives. Collaborates w/ departments and staff in all clinics, emphasizing standards and professional accountability across the region. Develops and monitors in collaboration w/ assigned radiologists in each modality, quality assurance goals and projects to ensure continuing image quality, technologists' competency-based assessments, auditing schedules and metrics.
Essential Functions:
- Designs, implements and conducts training programs based on Quality Improvement data
- Coordinates training initiatives to ensure highest quality prevention techniques andprograms - Analyzes data from competency-based assessments
- Assists technical/clinical staff in the development of competent clinical skills
- Establishes and maintains Quality Management programs
- Monitors andimplements National, State andLocal standards and regulations
- Monitors ongoing quality data, and generates reports based on Quality Improvement activities
- Recommends performance improvement actions on both individual and system levels
- Designs, measures, assesses and implements the improvement cycle for Quality Improvement activities
- Conducts audits of radiologist feedback data, repeat/reject analyses, QC program compliance, Radiation Safety Compliance, etc., reports metrics to Compliance Manager
- In addition to defined technical requirements, accountable for consistently demonstrating service behaviors and principles defined by the Kaiser Permanente Service Quality Credo, the KP Mission as well as specific departmental/organizational initiatives
- Also accountable for consistently demonstrating the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, andto purchasers, contracted providers and vendors
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 5 years imaging experience in either radiography or sonography
- Experience in ultrasound required
- Certified in Radiography, w/Certificate of Advanced Qualifications in Sonography strongly preferred
- Experience w/various Quality Assurance tools (e.g., performance measures indicators, process implementation work flow, statistical databases)
- Experience in Quality monitoring, tracking, outcome analysis, andtraining
- Facilitation andproject management skills
- Working knowledge of applicable ACR/AIUM/State Regulations
- Experience withdatabase and word processing programs
- Excellent oral andwritten communication and presentation skills
- Effective interpersonal skills
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.