Program Consultant, Health Care Job 2024 Full Time

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Program Consultant, Health Care.

This position can be home-based in California.

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

#TheAHALife is our company culture, our way of life, reflecting our diversity, equity & inclusion, our focus on work-life harmonization and our Guiding Values. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued™ at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and at heart.jobs.

Responsibilities

This individual will be responsible for the implementation of quality programs aimed at improving care for patients with cardiovascular disease and stroke. Responsible for working with multiple sites to educate and empower improvement in treatment to guidelines, clinical processes, and practices. Successful market management will require that this individual:

• Engage with clients at hospitals, healthcare systems, post-acute facilities, ambulatory/outpatient settings, or EMS organizations to implement and deliver program and product services, including active data collection, decision support tools, best practice sharing, quality improvement consultation, and how to build a program site team/infrastructure for success
• Consult with appropriate hospital teams to identify and resolve compliance issues and facilitate program participation progress and optimization of program and product value and return on investment
• Develop relationships with physician champions, key stakeholders and decision makers/influencers in C-suite or executive positions as well as essential relationships with front line leaders and data abstractors
• Collaborate with state departments of health, regional authorities and other partners to further cardiovascular systems of care.
• Document activities in customer relationship management tools such as Microsoft Dynamics. Record and report on account interactions and execution of the supported initiative including tracking progress and reporting. Communicate regularly with Director of Health Care Quality to assure tasks are completed according to timeline. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure program success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• Two (2) – Five (5) years of proven experience
• Experience in an acute care hospital working directly on clinical quality or process improvement projects, or a national cardiac or stroke clinical quality improvement program that incorporates data capture within process improvement framework
• Experience in hospital/healthcare systems for cardiovascular disease and stroke
• Familiarity with Systems of Care work or understanding of EMS, Payers, CMS
• Excellent in advanced PowerPoint, Word and Excel and delivering power Point presentations to both large and small groups
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Ability to travel up to 20% local and overnight stay

Preferred Skills:

• Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality or Certified Health Education Specialist, or a clinical degree
• Experience in collaborative learning groups

Compensation & Benefits

Salary minimum to the midpoint of the range is $65,000.00 to $95,000.00. Pay is commensurate with experience; geographic differentials to the pay range may apply.

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package. Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary. That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases, based on the type of position.
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution. As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program. HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees. The number of days will increase based on seniority level. You will also have a total of 12 paid holidays off each year, which includes several days off at the end of the year.
• Tuition Assistance – We support the career development of all employees. This program provides financial assistance to employees who wish to further their education and career in relation to their current duties and responsibilities, or for potential future positions in the organization.

The American Heart Association’s 2028 Goal: Building on over 100 years of trusted leadership in cardiovascular and brain health, by 2028 the AHA will drive breakthroughs and implement proven solutions in science, policy, and care for healthier people and communities. The greatest discoveries in health must reach everyone where they are.

At American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, our mission is to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, age, language, sexual orientation, national origin and physical or cognitive abilities. We’re committed to ensuring our workforce, workplace culture and mission have a shared impact across a diverse set of backgrounds.

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Posted Date 24 hours ago (9/16/2024 5:06 PM)

Requisition ID 2024-14279

Job Category Health Strategies

Position Type Full Time