SUMMARY: Supports Emory Healthcare inpatient and outpatient divisions by providing in-depth proactive consultation, coaching, analytics and strategic support to managers, staff, and physicians for patient experience improvement. Serves as a consultant to routinely discuss, implement and audit best practices for improving patient experience. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Demonstrates proficiency in qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and reporting, including focus groups to add nuance to quantitative feedback.
- Continually monitors patient satisfaction data and analyzes results, collects, and reports feedback, conducts gap analysis, identifies critical factors for success, and convenes multidisciplinary teams for process improvement initiatives.
- Provides coaching on service recovery, best practices, employee communications, reward & recognition, service data retrieval and analysis.
- Provides creative solutions to exceed expectations, create loyal customers, positive word-of-mouth advertising and meet patient satisfaction survey goals.
- Leads creation, reviews and timely distribution of reports for patient experience accountability and goal setting.
- Partners with local leadership to engage team members and volunteers for improvement initiatives.
- Performs gap analyses, patient journey mapping, and leads multiple performance improvement tests of change with a human-centered design lens.
- Co-designs culture change strategies with business partners to achieve organizational directional strategies.
- Rounds in clinical areas and provides real time coaching. - Prepares training courses, tools and presentations to support patient experience strategy.
- Demonstrates leadership skills in committees and improvement projects to improve patient experience.
- Performs rounds and audits in partnership with clinical and operational teams to address process improvement strategies.
- Identifies coaching opportunities to build capacity for underperforming care team members in collaboration with business partners, providing shadowing, auditing, and individual coaching sessions.
- Drives patient experience quality improvement programs, in partnership with key stakeholders.
- Participates and initiates research studies, actively pursues publications, and/or national presentations at conferences.
- Advises on content for patient-facing communications to improve patient experience.
- Works with manager to formulate plan for personal professional development and identify needed resources for training.
- Attends meetings, huddles and educational in-services as appropriate.
- Actively participates in improvement projects that improve workflows, efficiency, accuracy, and quality of care experience.
- Participates in professional activities and organizations to maintain knowledge of current trends, practices, and developments.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
SKILLS REQUIRED:
- High degree of interpersonal communication and relationship building skills.
- Data analytics.
- Teaching / training / coaching.
- Demonstrated proficiency in computer programs such as customer databases, Microsoft Office and online applications.
- Ability to work independently.
- Local travel may be required.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:
- Bachelors degree required; Master's degree preferred.
- 2 years of relevant healthcare experience working with clinical teams and/or patients.
- Experience in process improvement, training and change management concepts.
- CPXP, DEI, data analytics or other relevant certification preferred.
- The combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: - Frequent standing & walking (50% of the workday) - Occasional sitting (50% of the workday) - Carrying of objects up to 10 lbs - Close eye work (computers, typing, reading, writing) - Physical demands may vary depending on assigned work area and work tasks.