Are you ready to take the next step in your career? NEW Health, a mission driven organization dedicated to serving our community, seeks an entry level Sterilization Technician for a temporary part time position. Join us for a temporary on the job training employment opportunity to explore new skills, gain valuable experience, and discover potential career paths in a dynamic work environment.
Committed to bringing healthcare into communities and communities into healthcare since 1978, NEW Health is rural Northeast Washington’s leading nonprofit primary care provider. We treat all patients with the respect they deserve while providing high quality, integrated medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services.
NEW Health has been named one of the best places to work in the Inland Northwest! This award from the Spokane Journal of Business is based on an analysis of our company policies, along with a confidential employee survey to evaluate workplace experience in the areas of engagement and satisfaction, including Work Life Balance, Role Satisfaction, Communication, and Workplace Culture, Training, and Technology and Development.
Our workforce development program, NEW Health University, is nationally recognized for developing local career pathway training to retain rural youth.
Your Career Pathway with NEW Health
We create pathways for career growth within NEW Health. To support this, we provide all employees with monthly paid training and additionally offer tuition reimbursement and one on one career planning. There are many paths to grow your career within NEW Health; here are some examples:
Care Coordinator 1 > Care Coordinator 2 > Assistant Care Coordination Manager> Care Coordination Manager
Sterilization Tech > Dental Assistant Trainee > Dental Assistant > Assistant Operations Manager > Clinic Operations Manager
Pharmacy Assistant > Pharmacy Technician Trainee > Pharmacy Technician
QI Intern > QI Specialist > QI Manager > QI Director
Purpose of Job:
The Quality Improvement (QI) Intern is responsible for supporting the QI Manager with the
implementation and management of quality improvement initiatives within NEW Health. This role involves collecting quality metrics data, assisting in quality improvement projects, and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collect, review, and audit clinical and quality data to support incentivized and non incentivized quality measures.
- Conduct chart audits to validate documentation accuracy, measure eligibility, and gap closure.
- Maintain and update quality registries and reports, including cancer screenings, diabetes measures, and preventive care metrics, using predefined established templates
- Prepare standard summaries and reports using established templates supporting quality improvement initiatives.
- Assist with internal and external quality audits by gathering documentation and supporting compliance efforts.
- Support patient outreach initiatives, including reminder calls for wellness visits and chronic disease follow ups.
- Request missing documentation using standardized scripts
- Perform additional quality improvement tasks and projects as assigned to support organizational quality goals.
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Travel may be required.