QUALITY MANAGER

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Position Overview

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a dynamic and organized Quality Manager with strong leadership skills to oversee the facility wide program for assessing, improving and managing the quality of care and reducing risk within the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center located in Chicago, Illinois. The incumbent will identify, develop, implement, coordinate and monitor action plans designed to confirm that problems at the facility are resolved and that action is taken to improve quality of care within the units and facility grounds. At Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, we treat individuals with dignity and compassion. Our mission is to provide recovery-oriented, evidence based, psychiatric healthcare services within a safe environment, which promote quality of life and full participation in the community.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the Quality Manager for the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center.
• Serves as full-line supervisor.
• Develops, implements, coordinates and monitors plans of corrective actions related to the identification of problems that negatively impact on the quality of care within the hospital.
• Collaborate with the Hospital Chief Operating Officer and Central Office Administration to confirm the hospital meets or exceeds professional/accreditation standards.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college.
• Requires three (3) years of progressively responsible quality assurance and performance management administrative experience in the fields of health or human services. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience in assessing compliance with accreditation and certification standards within all operational systems, within a large and complex healthcare organization.  
• Three (3) years of professional experience coordinating, reviewing and evaluating a program for assessing and improving quality of care for a public or private organization.
• Three (3) years of professional experience identifying and developing action plans to verify problems have been resolved and actions taken to improve quality of care for a public or private organization.
• Three (3) years of professional experience developing, maintaining, and managing quality or safety assurance methods and processes by determining objectives, setting specifications, and assessing results. 
• Three (3) years of professional supervisory experience, including assigning work, providing guidance to subordinates, recommending counseling and/or discipline following collective bargaining agreements, training staff and approving time off. 

Conditions of Employment

• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties.  
• Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends and holidays. 
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• This position has been found to meet the requirements in section 4A-101 of the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act requiring the occupant/employee to file a Statement of Economic Interest. The Illinois Governmental Ethics Act (5 ILCS 420/4A et seq.) requires certain state officials and employees to file annual Statements of Economic Interest with the Office of the Secretary of State that will be made available for examination and copying by the public. All employees required to file a Statement of Economic Interest are also required to file a Supplemental Statement of Economic Interest with the Executive Ethics Commission. (See Executive Order 15-09) Fines and penalties apply to untimely filings.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

About the Agency

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois.  Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives.  Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois.  Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.