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Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

This entry-level Quality & Safety Outcomes Coordinator role supports departmental efforts to measure, monitor, and improve patient safety and quality outcomes across the organization. Typical responsibilities include:

• Works under direction of the Quality and Safety Manager to support performance improvement initiatives, accreditation, regulatory compliance, and value-based programs
• Builds collaborative relationships across clinical and operational teams to identify safety risks and improvement opportunities
• Supports data management: collection, validation, analysis, interpretation, and timely submission of internal and public metrics
• Uses incident reports, registries, and databases to monitor performance and draft recommendations to improve quality and safety metrics
• Applies basic safety science and process improvement methods (PDCA cycles, A3 problem solving) and supports project management activities
• Facilitates small interdisciplinary performance improvement groups to meet unit- or metric-specific goals
• Participates in local, regional, and national patient-safety and quality-related education and meetings
• Educates staff about reporting hazardous conditions, quality improvement fundamentals, and safety culture components
• Completes special projects and performs required professional/technical competencies for assigned unit
• Exercises good judgement for routine problem solving and escalates issues as appropriate

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Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s degree in Arts, Science, Nursing, or equivalent preferred
• 2+ years experience in the healthcare industry (clinical or operations experience is relevant)
• Entry-level position — demonstrated interest or coursework in quality improvement, patient safety, public reporting, or related fields is a plus

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Required Licensure & Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse (state RN license required when role is clinical — multi-state licensure preferred where applicable). For roles requiring an RN: candidate must hold an active Kansas (KS) and/or Missouri (MO) RN license if the function requires nursing practice.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) from the American Heart Association (AHA) or equivalent

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Skills & Keywords (for applicants)

• Quality improvement
• Patient safety
• Data collection & analysis
• Process improvement (PDCA, A3)
• Project facilitation
• Healthcare reporting & metrics
• Registered Nurse (where applicable)
• Entry-level / early-career quality roles
• Kansas City, KS

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Time Type & Additional Info

• Employment type: Full time
• Job Requisition ID: R-58389
• Reasonable accommodations: our client provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance during the recruitment process, please notify the recruiting team and request an Accommodation Request form.

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Confidentiality & Employer

All references to the original employer in the source posting have been replaced with "confidential client." Careertakes manages candidate introductions and the hiring process on behalf of the confidential client.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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