**Job Description** Location: Chicago, Illinois Business Unit: Hospital: Rush University Medical Center Department: Cancer Service Line - Office **Work Type:** Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0) **Shift:** Shift 1 **Work Schedule:** 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 4:30:00 PM) Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits). **Pay Range:** 57.36 - 96.37 Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may very depending on the circumstances of each case. **Summary:** Job **Summary:** The Director Clinical Innovation role is responsible for the direction and operation of a service-line based program. The Director implements and evaluates quality, safety, and experience strategies to ensure a well-planned and systematic program for the oncology service line. The Director implements effective programs, ensuring consistency of best practice implementation and providing oversight and ongoing performance monitoring and action planning on key standardized quality or safety metrics. The individual who holds this position exemplifies the Rush mission, vision, and value and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures. **Other information:** • Master Degree in related area (hospital administration, public health, business administration). • five years of leadership working in process and quality improvement • A high level of analytical skills. • Strong problem-solving skills to include innovative solutions for addressing issues. • Demonstrated strengths in building effective working relationships, building and developing teams, and driving quality and safety. • Established track record of strong project management skills. • Willing and able to support the mission of RUMC. • Ability to interact, with and support the activities of a highly qualified, dedicated physician faculty, consulting and primary care physicians, as individuals to support a sophisticated Cancer Center • Understanding of and appreciation for the culture and environment associated with managing a sophisticated program in a rapidly growing, highly competitive market. • Ability to lead and manage people including selecting, developing, motivating and retaining people to meet service line objectives • Evidence of a management style which emphasizes collegiality, teamwork, participation and communication • Personal characteristics which include outstanding interpersonal skills on the individual and group levels, excellent writing skills, flexible and patient, entrepreneurial spirit professional appearance and an executive demeanor, strong work ethic and enthusiastic demeanor. • Willingness and ability to delegate responsibility to subordinates allowing them the room to identify ways and means to accomplish specific goals and objectives • Leadership skills characterized as one who possesses: 1) broad vision of the future of the health care industry 2) assertiveness in presenting and selling ideas 3) sensitivity to the values and expectations of sponsors, medical staff, board, management, employee, patient, investor and community constituencies. **Preferred Job Qualifications:** • Lean and/or Six-Sigma certification. • Experience in managing cancer service line or related programs, with a record of maintaining medical care excellence and achieving performance and financial goals. **Responsibilities:** Job **Responsibilities:** • • Oversight and responsibility of daily management systems, patient safety, quality/performance improvement, staff engagement, data analytics, and accreditation and regulatory compliance for the Cancer Service Line, including medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, breast imaging and bone marrow transplant • Manages staff and provides coaching and mentorship for projects and accreditation work in the Cancer Service Line • **Quality and Value Based Care Management:** • Oversight includes quality programs such as Quality Oncology Practice InitiativeI, Oncology Care Model, Commission on Cancer, FACT accreditation, FDA alignment, Vizient, and new accreditations to be pursued • Leads value based care initiatives beyond OCM, such as exploration of partnerships with insurance groups, identification of future programs • Serves as organizational point of contact for quality within the cancer service line; maintains partnership with organization’s quality team to ensure alignment in processes and procedures • Tasked with creating processes that help in achieving lower costs and higher quality of care • **Process Improvement Management:** • Utilizing Lean principles, leads the overall value stream transformation of the Cancer Service Line. • Leads and manages teams in the redesign, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of programs, processes, and initiatives within the Cancer Service Line, leading to measureable, improved outcomes • Identifies and eliminates barriers in performance improvement initiatives, supporting the transformation of the front line staff and providers to leaders for quality and safety. • Provides project guidance and support to teams involved in change initiatives. • SStrategic Planning, System Integration & Program Development Management: • Participates in the development of key initiatives to move forward oncology care of patients and families, and identification of metrics to evaluate organizational success. • Leads efforts around program development that arequality related and driven by the Commission on Cancer, such as survivorship, screening and supportive care • • Participates in cross-system integrative work related to quality, safety, satisfaction, and engagement to include balanced scorecard development across RUMC, RUMG, Rush Oak Park, and Rush Copley hospitals. • Facilitates the integration of the Cancer Service Line within the larger Rush system in the areas of safety/quality concerns, regulatory, and accreditation compliance. • In collaboration with the CAO and Operational leaders considers the operational, human resource, and financial impact of strategic programs, changes, and policy/practice decisions. • **Data Management:** Oversee and lead data management, definitions and data integrity for the cancer service line, including, but not limited to, 11 disease-site dashboards, service-line oncology projections, time to first treatment, etc. Participates in data governance discussions to ensure alignment in definitions across the system Maintains shared oversight of data analysts, in partnership with knowledge management Partner with tumor registry team to ensure consistent operations, data availability and accuracy Ensures communication venues are in place to ensure mechanisms for reporting and information sharing; facilitates the establishment of a data driven culture Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. **Position** Director of Quality - Cancer Center **Location** US:IL:Chicago **Req ID** 14995