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UCLA Health

Lean Specialist - Performance Excellence

UCLA Health, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90079


Description

Play a key role in the delivery of world-class patient care. Drive performance improvement throughout an award-winning health system. Take your career in an exciting new direction. At UCLA Health, you can do all this and more.

As our Performance Excellence Specialist, you will help advance operational and clinical improvement within the UCLA Health System by serving as a project manager, facilitator, consultant, analyst, coach and mentor. You'll facilitate problem assessment, data compilation/analysis, team development, metrics design, and improvement implementation efforts. Using Lean, Value-Based Care Redesign and other approaches, you will support performance improvement while implementing the active daily management approach to sustain performance. You will support the continued execution and development of the UCLA ValU initiative, focusing on improving clinical outcomes, the patient experience, and reducing cost. Performance Excellence's mission embodies the UCLA Health mission 'To deliver leading-edge patient care, research, and education:'

To improve the patient experience by building continuous improvement skills throughout the organization via training and hands-on opportunities

Facilitate lean process improvement projects throughout UCLA Health

Maintain and continuously improve the "UCLA Way"

Salary Range: $102,500 - $227,700/annuallyQualifications

For this high-profile role, we're seeking a driven and innovative change agent with:

Bachelor's degree, required

Masters Degree in Business, Nursing, or Healthcare Administration, highly desired

Three or more years of increasingly responsible experience in hospital management or hospital consulting

A proven track record in clinical operations, clinical program development, planning, and process improvement

In-depth knowledge of all elements of health care delivery

Understanding of patient and community needs

Expertise in patient care delivery, accreditation standards and the development and management of operational and capital budgets

Ability to effectively integrate functions to achieve business plans

A passion for quality, customer-centeredness, productivity and continuous improvement

Strong leadership skills, including the ability to develop a superior management team

Exceptional interpersonal and problem-solving skills

UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.