Quality Manager - Pediatric Perioperative Services

Job Description

The BCH Pediatric Perioperative Services Quality Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for multidisciplinary pediatric surgical programs, ensuring alignment with ACS Children's Surgery Verification Level 1 standards. This role leads the planning, development, and oversight of pediatric perioperative services, driving continuous improvement and high-quality patient care. This role leads the planning, development, and oversight of pediatric perioperative services, driving continuous improvement and supporting high-quality, patient-centered surgical care.

Determines department objectives in accordance with overall strategic plan. Erroneous decisions or failure to adhere to objectives results in additional costs and serious delays in overall schedules.

Maintains 24-hour accountability for fiscal, material, and human resources, including supervision of leader-level direct reports, and advances performance through collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: - Minimum of 8 years' experience in a children's hospital setting with a surgical or critical care focus - Bachelor's degree in nursing or a healthcare profession - Demonstrated hospital management skills with expertise in quality improvement, statistical analysis, and database management - Proven ability to organize, manage priorities, meet deadlines, and assign work efficiently - Demonstrated leadership, fiscal and operations management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, management and staff at all levels, and external agencies - Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify problems and implement solutions - Demonstrated knowledge of relevant healthcare information technology and clinical QI workflows and processes - Demonstrated knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements, as well as related legislative, accreditation, licensing and compliance environments - Highly developed interpersonal skills to foster effective communication, collaborative decision-making, and strong working relationships across all levels of clinical and technical staff, external regulatory agencies, and quality improvement teams, including mentoring and training of QI staff - Ability to create and maintain a goal-oriented climate of teamwork, collaboration and consistent achievement of objectives - Knowledge of relevant healthcare information technology and patient care workflows and processes. Advanced knowledge of various administrative and business software packages, and of specialized applications for quality data management Preferred Qualifications: - Master's degree in Nursing or relevant area - Certification in relevant area Required License/Certifications: - Registered Nurse in the State of California

License / Certification

Registered Nurse