Patient Experience Consultant

Children's National Medical Center
United States, D.C., Washington
Mar 28, 2025
Description The Patient Experience Consultant leads, conducts and/or facilitates multidisciplinary improvement activities to ensure the highest quality patient experience outcomes for Children's National Hospital. A specialist in patient experience and patient and family-centered care, this position works in partnership with assigned teams and collaborates with other departments to ensure the organization meets or exceeds the patient experience goals as measured by voluntary surveys. Serves as a role model and authority utilizing a variety of performance improvement strategies. This individual will assist leadership across all service lines to improve patient experience scores. Qualifications Minimum Education Bachelor's Degree Healthcare or Business related (Required) Master's Degree (Preferred) Minimum Work Experience 3 years Healthcare related work (a Master's degree in Business, Healthcare, Nursing, or other related field may substitute for 3 years of required experience) (Required) 2 years Hospital operations, performance improvement, or project management (Preferred) Required Skills/Knowledge Knowledge of the healthcare industry trends Knowledge of word processing and spread sheet software, quality improvement concepts, financial and data analysis Must be detail oriented, analytic, able to facilitate multidisciplinary improvement teams and negotiate conflict. Must be proficient in MS Office Suite; possess excellent interpersonal skills and excellent oral and written communication skills Functional Accountabilities Performance Improvement: Develops plan for completing required assessment, including project organization, data requirements, involved parties, resource requirements and timeline Provides consultation, team facilitation and leadership to clinical, medical, administrative and interdisciplinary teams regarding performance improvement (PI) methodologies; assisting teams in executing change, achieving desired outcomes, and spreading effective change and redesign Establishes and maintains collaborative working relationships and effective communication to facilitate improvements, fostering collaboration, partnership, innovation, customer service, and effective teamwork Establishes and maintains project implementation plans and project status reports Education Uses data to determine educational needs and program content then develops education plans to close identified knowledge and performance gaps. Trains staff and leaders through process assessment and redesign associated with experience strategy Mentors staff and leaders through training and project work. Responsible for successful closure of projects. Data Management Assists teams in collecting, aggregating then analyzing data, and developing realistic improvement plans. Collaborating with team members, develops metrics, data tools, and effective reports to facilitate decision-making and spur improvement. Creates measurements to fit processes that can be used to monitor effectiveness and further improvements. Primary Location : District of Columbia-Washington Work Locations : CN Hospital (Main Campus) 111 Michigan Avenue NW Washington 20010 Job : Non-Clinical Professional Organization : Patient Services Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time Shift : Day Work Schedule : 9-5 Job Posting : Mar 27, 2025, 3:00:22 PM Full-Time Salary Range : 81993.6 - 136656