Health Care Compliance Officer - Registered Nurse; Home Health, and Hospice

Health Care Compliance Officer - Registered Nurse (Home Health, and Hospice)

Address: 150 N. 18th Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85007

Grade: 20

Make a broader impact on healthcare standards! We are looking for Registered Nurses to help our Department drive regulatory compliance. If you have an eye for detail and want a stake in protecting public health interests within the state of Arizona, we invite you to join our team. Becoming a Healthcare Compliance Registered Nurse with the Arizona Department of Health Services will enable you to perform work corresponding to the activities within the Division of Public Health Licensing Services, specifically the Bureau of Medical Facility Licensing’s Home Health and Hospice team.

As a Healthcare Compliance Officer, you can expect to transition your patient-care experience into a high-impact regulatory role as you learn and develop expertise in:

• Assisting with or determining the issuing of licenses to licensed facilities and providers, and maintaining current licenses by ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Conducting initial and annual recertification inspections of health care institutions regulated by the Department to determine compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Reviewing quality systems by tracking documents, corrective actions, and other quality data.
• Conducting investigations of the operation of a licensed facility or provider upon receiving a complaint or of an unlicensed facility.
• Performing services that need regulation.
• Corresponding with the regulated community or regulatory bodies.
• Responding to technical questions from licensees.
• Developing standards and participating in rule making.
• Performing, assisting, or reviewing detailed investigative or inspection reports.
• Formulating statements of deficiencies and correspondence regarding changes in the status of a licensee’s License or other types of legal orders.

• Learn to interpret and understand statutes, rules and internal procedures for discipline.
• Participate in and conduct inspections/investigations to determine compliance with state regulation, statutes, rules, and internal procedures as directed and under guidance.
• Prepare investigation reports.
• Attend and participate in staff, advisory committee, and/or stakeholder organization meetings.
• Provide miscellaneous services, including but not limited to technical assistance to current or potential providers, interact with other department offices, etc.
• Other duties as assigned as related to the position (typically 5% - 10%)

• Arizona Administrative Code and Arizona Revised Statutes related to licensed facilities and providers.
• Good understanding of facility management and operational concepts.
• Specialized procedures.
• Performance Management (PM), and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) and Lean methodologies.

• Review and reading/interpretation of professional literature and regulations.
• Requires high level of oral and written communication, analytical review, interpersonal relationships, active listening, organizational, evaluation, repetition, education/training.

• Change priorities as issues arise, problem solving (root cause).
• Work independently.
• Perform reviews.
• Analyze analytical data, reporting, and evaluation of analyst qualifications providing compliance data.
• Support a diverse multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of public employment, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination.

Preference will be given to candidates who possess a professional license to practice in the State of Arizona or proof of eligibility for reciprocity of an out-of-state license, i.e., Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Dietitian, Counselor, etc.

Must have a driver's license and ability to travel statewide. Must possess a valid level one fingerprint clearance card issued pursuant to A.R.S. 41-1758.07 or must apply for a level one fingerprint clearance card within 7 working days after beginning employment. Associate’s degree, with…