Quality Advisor
Rapid City, SDFull-time$31–49.5/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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The Quality Advisor collaborates with leadership to improve organizational outcomes, support regulatory compliance, and advance infection prevention goals. The role provides oversight and resources for performance improvement, patient safety, and infection prevention activities, using data and project management to identify opportunities and evaluate results. It also supports process changes from education through sustainability and communicates quality and safety priorities across the organization.
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Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.
Facility: Black Hills Surg Hosp Location: Rapid City, SD Address: 216 Anamaria Dr, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA Shift: 8 Hours - Day Shifts Job Schedule: Full time Weekly Hours: 40.00 Salary Range: $31.00 - $49.50
Department Details
A dynamic department located in the beautiful city of Rapid City. This department is filled with great co-workers that are energetic and enthusiastic to improve quality in the BH region. It is a growing location as well for future growth possibilities with diverse working responsibilities!
Job Summary
Collaborates with leadership to organize, evaluate, assist, and coordinate planning and implementation of systematic, organization-wide approaches to improving outcomes, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies, and/or achieving infection prevention program goals. Supports corporate and local strategic plans that achieve high impact and significant improvements in organizational performance by providing oversight to performance improvement, regulatory compliance components and activities, and/or infection prevention and control. Demonstrates the ability in problem solving, critical thinking, conflict management, and team building skills in order to ensure a productive work environment and achievement of goals.
Responsible for utilizing and teaching process improvements as it relates to quality performance, regulatory compliance, or infection prevention. Supports informed decision making for operational efficiencies that align with system strategies for improving patient/resident experience and outcomes and reducing patient safety and regulatory risk. Supports process change from education through sustainability. Serves as communication link and resource for performance improvement, infection prevention surveillance and reporting, healthcare regulations, and patient safety for departments and management throughout the organization. The responsibilities include data and project management, analytical reasoning, interpreting and evaluation of complex information, identifying patterns and essential issues, while measuring and evaluating the attainment of results.
Knowledge of and conformance to regulatory requirements, evidence-based practices, contractual obligations, and the organizations policies is essential, along with the ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information. Understands and communicates quality and safety priorities as they relate to high reliability and value based care. Analyzes data to identify areas of opportunity for improvement efforts. Ability to write and verbally communicate in a legible and understandable manner, have strong computer skills, possess the ability to make independent and timely decisions when circumstances warrant. Obtains familiarity with basic process improvement tools and healthcare and medical terminology. Demonstrate interpersonal skills, such as interacting effectively with other health care professionals, physicians, upper-level management, regulatory agency staff, and the general public.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required. In lieu of education, leadership may consider an Associate’s degree and 5 years of applicable experience. If degree is in nursing, graduate from a nationally accredited nursing program preferred, including, but not limited to, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).
Minimum of two years of experience in clinical, nursing, healthcare safety, process improvement, infection prevention, accreditation or healthcare management setting required.
Certification in regulatory accreditation, patient safety, quality specialty (Lean Six Sigma or Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality) or Infection Prevention and Control (CIC®)equivalent preferred.
If a licensed registered nurse (RN), currently hold an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state. Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications. Quality improvement/assurance personnel with nursing backgrounds can maintain their license without seeking additional hours based on role’s responsibilities. Other departments may or may not require certifications as directed by department leadership.
Benefits
Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit https://sanfordcareers.com/benefits .
Sanford is an EEO/AA Employer M/F/Disability/Vet. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-877-673-0854 or send an email to [email protected] .
Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.
Req Number: R-0280481 Job Function: Quality and Risk Management Featured: No
How this job compares
Set against the 610 open Quality Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$31–49.5/hr
- US median$32–50/hr30 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $40.25/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($41/hr) — in the middle half of Quality Management hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 610 open Quality Management jobs across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Quality Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 508 postings).
- Education
- 253 of the 610 open Quality Management jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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