Senior Project Manager - Accreditation

Christiana Care is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Accreditation department. In this position the selected individual will design, manage and execute safety and accreditation projects/programs across the system, diverse departments and populations to achieve continuous improvements in patient care delivery and optimal patient outcomes. You will also serve as a project manager in collaboration with clinical staff and key stakeholders to improve organizational safety, quality, efficiency, system or processes.

• Plan, implement and facilitate activities that support the ability to achieve and maintain accreditation.
• Facilitates organizational continuous readiness activities.
• Facilitate ongoing self-assessment process of accreditation and regulatory standards.
• Interpret new regulations and their impact in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Conduct gap analysis to identify and remediate regulations/standards
• Develops and oversees the implementation of the assigned project/program, including Root Cause Analysis, FMEA and other patient safety or accreditation teams.
• Facilitates and motivates personnel and leadership from throughout the system to determine readiness for learning and implementation.
• Develop tools/templates and facilitates the process to use for audits/tracers/surveys
• Establishes a systematic approach to all aspects of the project/program - assessment and readiness, planning, training, implementation, coaching and sustainment.
• Leads the organizational project in collaboration with the Senior Leadership sponsor.

Requirements:

• Master's degree in Nursing required.
• Formal project management training or equivalent of five years' experience in managing senior level complex organizational projects across service lines
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in improvement science methodologies or Root Cause Analysis process preferred.
• Experience leading, facilitating and participating in multi-disciplinary teams required
• Demonstrated sustainment in achievement of desired outcomes and leading transformational change in quality/safety projects
• Certification by National Association for Health Care Quality within one year of hire
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt preferred
• Education and/or experience in one or more of the following are desirable: health information

technology, performance improvement, systems thinking, outcome analysis, safety science, utilization

management, team facilitation education.