Job Description

The Senior Clinical Compliance Coordinator will assist in the completion of scheduled audits and special projects as assigned by the Corporate Director of Internal Audit & Compliance. This position is responsible for auditing to regulatory guidance. The Senior Clinical Compliance Coordinator will conduct training for appropriate DCH FMC personnel to ensure compliance with regulatory issues and HIPAA. This position provides key compliance changes and updates to the FMC Administrative team and serves as a liaison between FMC and the System internal audit and compliance office.

Responsibilities

DCH Standards:

• Maintains performance, patient and employee satisfaction and financial standards as outlined in the performance evaluation.
• Performs compliance requirements as outlined in the Employee Handbook.
• Must adhere to the DCH Behavioral Standards including creating positive relationships with patients/families, coworkers, colleagues and with self.
• Performs essential job functions in a manner that ensures the safety of patients, visitors and employees.
• Identifies and reduces unsafe practices that may result in harm to patients, visitors and employees.
• Recognizes and takes appropriate action to reduce risks and hazards to promote safety for patients, visitors and employees.
• Requires use of electronic mail, time and attendance software, learning management software and intranet.
• Must adhere to all DCH Health System policies and procedures.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Requires completion of secondary education. Experience in healthcare operations or healthcare auditing, consulting, regulatory and/or compliance, including investigations and resolution of systematic operational problems is preferred. Requires a clinical background to perform clinical compliance audits. CHC (Certification in Healthcare Compliance) preferred. Must have the ability to perform multiple tasks with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail in a deadline driven environment. Must have the ability to relate well to diverse multidisciplinary teams. Advance computer and internet knowledge required. Experience with Mediregs compliance software is a plus.

Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

WORK CONTEXT

• Interpersonal Relationships – Daily contact with others through face-to-face discussions, electronic mail, and telephone. Frequently coordinates and leads others, works with a group or team, deals with internal and external customers (including occasional unpleasant or angry people), participates in conflict situations/resolutions, produces results, and draft letters, memos and reports to document activities.
• Physical work conditions – Works primarily indoors in a controlled environment sitting at a computer or workstation.
• Structural job characteristics – Regular work schedules with occasional requirements to be available to accommodate employees on other shifts. High degree of freedom to make decisions that affect other people, as well as the image and reputation of the organization. Extremely important to be exact and accurate based on the seriousness/consequence of errors.

PHYSICAL FACTORS

• Ability: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Activities: Talking, hearing, bending, twisting, walking, kneeling, crouching, stooping, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, repetitive motion, standing, and/or using hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls.
• Requirements: Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• Must be able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range.
• Physical presence onsite is essential.

OTHER JOB FACTORS

• Requires the following cognitive abilities: deductive and inductive reasoning, flexibility of closure, fluency of ideas, information ordering, mathematical reasoning, memorization, number facility, oral comprehension and expression, originality, problem sensitivity, selective attention, speed of closure, time sharing, visualization, and written comprehension and expression.
• Requires the following psychomotor abilities: finger and manual dexterity.
• Requires the following sensory abilities: speech clarity and recognition.
• Requires the following personal characteristics/work styles: integrity, initiative, leadership, dependability, achievement/effort, adaptability/flexibility, analytical thinking, concern for others, cooperation, independence, innovation, persistence, self control, social orientation, stress tolerance and attention to detail.
• Position satisfies each of the following work values: achievement, independence, recognition, relationships, support, and good working conditions.