Comagine Health is looking for an Improvement Advisor to join a multi-disciplinary team supporting the operations of a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded sub-contract for the Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health in Nursing Facilities (COE-NF). The Improvement Advisor is responsible for outreach, technical assistance, and training coordination for nursing facilities on topics related to mental health, substance use, and recovery services in nursing facilities that serve individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) and serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorders (SUD) and co-occurring disorders (COD). This engagement will influence positive change within nursing facilities to provide for improved care, safety and well-being of residents with mental health, substance use and co-occurring disorders.

Our Improvement Advisors serve as internal and external subject matter experts, providing consulting and technical assistance to a variety of health care and community stakeholders. They use advanced knowledge and expertise to collaborate with providers, practices, hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies, community-based organizations and/or other stakeholders to guide them through health system transformation and improvement initiatives, to support their capacity to respond to a changing health care environment and deliver better care.

If you have knowledge of mental health and/or substance use evidenced-based best practices and emerging trends, we encourage you to read on. We’re looking for candidates with a background in supporting individuals with mental health and/or substance use disorders. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to maintain critical relationships with organizations and work to improve and enhance substance use treatment processes.

This position is open to candidates living in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, or Wyoming. Preference will be given to candidates who reside in Utah.

Who is the Comagine Health?
Comagine Health is a non-profit consulting firm that seeks to improve health and to increase the effectiveness and quality of health care. As a recognized Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), we support providers, plans, purchasers, and consumers, and offer services to state and federal agencies and others to help them better manage health care under the existing system and to assess, plan for and implement broader system transformation. We collaborate with academic, government, and nonprofit partners on initiatives funded by NIH, CDC, AHRQ, BJA, SAMHSA, and others. In short, we are changing healthcare at a fundamental level.

What you’ll be doing for us:
Consultation and Delivery of Technical Assistance

• Collaborate with internal team members as well as nursing facilities and external partners/stakeholders to improve health care delivery systems, processes, and outcomes efficiently and effectively. Engage state/local and federal organizations to promote the work of the COE-NF.
• Provide coaching on data collection, interpretation, and utilization to drive performance improvement within designated Customer Relationship Management (CRM) to document technical assistance/trainings and contact with long term care facilities. Documents partner engagement and community outreach for the same.
• Design and implement quality improvement interventions based on evidence-based and best practices in advance behavioral health treatment and services in long-term care facilities in assigned region.
• Contribute to development and maintenance of quality improvement templates, tools, and other materials.
• Provide health care consulting and technical assistance via face-to-face, telephone, video conference or other formats to a variety of stakeholders.
• Document recruitment, technical assistance, and other activities in CRM and other technology solutions; maintains personal proficiency and supports peers in leveraging system capabilities for contacts, accounts, memberships, and relationships in everyday work.
• Partner with team members across projects with the goal of finding synergies between and collaborating across related goals and contracts and meeting the needs of the community.

Training and Subject Matter Expertise

• Continually develop basic to intermediate subject matter expertise on topics relevant to the contract.
• Design and implement learning collaboratives, learning and action networks, and other broad-scale delivery of quality improvement education and training including rapid cycle improvement techniques.
• Represents Comagine Health to clients and stakeholders, including associations, community partners, etc.
• Convene and facilitate meetings for training, partner engagement, and coalition-building.
• Coordinate with professional associations, coalitions, community organizations and others to share information about project activity, plan joint initiatives, and leverage opportunities to share resources, best practices, and lessons learned to achieve improvement in health care delivery systems, processes, and outcomes.

Project Management

• All team members play a role in tracking project activities, including executing assigned tasks and/or phases of a project plan; monitor deployment of interventions to ensure program effectiveness, and report on progress to team lead.
• Prepare reports of project progress to share with contract officers/funders.

Required Skills

• Comprehensive understanding of health care reform initiatives/environment.
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Familiarity with videoconference technology (e.g. Zoom).
• Ability to organize and coordinate multiple simultaneous tasks in a team environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Theoretical and practical knowledge of quality improvement methods and tools.
• Familiarity with health care terminology.
• Familiarity with health care clinical and operational workflows.
• Proficiency with project management concepts (e.g. project plans).
• Familiarity and hands-on experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and/or Microsoft Teams (Preferred).

Required Experience

• BA/BS in a health care, public health, or related field (Equivalent combination of education and/or work experience in related field may be substituted).
• MA/MS in public health, nursing, health care administration, public policy, or any other related field (Equivalent combination of education and/or work experience in related field may be substituted).
• 4+ years of experience in health care, including quality improvement in health care settings.
• 2+ years of project management experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of health care reform initiatives/environment.

Salary Range: $69,184 - $95,757
The salary range posted reflects the range that Comagine is willing to pay for this position. Salary is determined by many factors, including but not limited to geographic location of where the employee will perform their job duties in addition to their knowledge, skills, education, and relevant work experience.
We offer competitive pay and benefits. Additionally, employment with Comagine Health qualifies if you apply for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program!

Comagine Health’s mission is to work together with our partners to improve health and create a better health care system so that people and communities will flourish. As part of our mission and values, we recognize the importance of having our employees vaccinated against COVID-19- both as a protection for our larger community and to keep our employees and their families safe.

As a federal contractor, and in compliance with Executive Order 14042, Comagine Health requires its employees and contractors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated. Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment at Comagine Health.

• If you are fully vaccinated, you will be required to provide proof of your completed COVID-19 vaccination prior to the first day of your employment. Failure to provide timely proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status may result in your offer of employment being rescinded or your start being delayed.
• If you are unable to be fully vaccinated due to medical condition or religious belief, you will be required to request an exemption upon acceptance of the offer of employment. As a part of this process, you will be required to provide information or documentation about the reason you cannot be vaccinated. If your request for an exemption is not approved, then your offer of employment may be rescinded.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $69,184.00 - $95,757.00 per year

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