Quality Assurance Specialist - UNC Home Health Raleigh

Description

We are seeking an experiencedHome Health Registered Nursewith strong clinical judgment and a passion for accuracy, education, and process improvement to join ourQuality Assurance (QA)team. This hybrid role offers the perfect blend of independent work, collaboration, and the opportunity to help elevate clinical quality across our organization.

Ideal candidates will bringstrong working knowledge of OASIS and CMS home health regulationsandprevious experience using Epic for home health documentation (preferred). Excellent attention to detail, clear communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously are essential for success in this role.

Benefits of this role include:

* Hybrid Work Environment
Enjoy a balance of remote and onsite work designed to support productivity, work-life balance, and collaboration. No weekends, holidays or on-call.

* Autonomous & Impactful Work
Work independently to review and audit clinical documentation, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and high-quality patient care.

* Education & Mentorship Opportunities
Help clinicians strengthen their documentation skills and understanding of OASIS/Epic. Serve as a resource and coach across the agency.

* Grow Your Expertise
We'll support you in becomingOASIS-certified within one year of employment-a valuable credential in home health leadership and quality roles.(supported by the organization).

Join our team and make a meaningful impact on patient care-without sacrificing the flexibility and autonomy that matter to you.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:
Oversees data collection and submission programs for public reporting projects, ensuring data integrity, timeliness of submission, and that all regulatory requirements are met.

Responsibilities:
1. Provides leadership and consultation for programs of data collection and submission for public reporting. Ensures data integrity.
2. Responsible for the coordination of data flow between the hospital and vendors prior to dissemination to data warehouse and internal customers.
3. Implements and evaluates the timelines for data submission and transmission.
4. Provides budget input for assigned area. Develops and makes recommendations regarding budget record keeping for future budgetary planning and budgetary requirements. Tracks trends and developments that will impact budgetary requirements.
5. Responsible for the Physician Quality Assurance/Peer Review program.
6. Maintains and oversees the maintenance of the reporting database(s).
7. Develops or revises data procedures related to regulatory requirements.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* RN NC LIC required
* CPHQ or CPHRM preferred
Professional Experience Requirements:
* If a Bachelor's degree: requires four (4) years of related experience and/or training.
* If an Associate's degree: requires eight (8) years of related experience and/or training.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community. Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conforms to prescribed style and format. Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis. REASONING ABILITY Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: UNC HH Raleigh Branch Admin

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$33.37 - $47.97 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Durham

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.