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Why Join Us?
For us, what matters most is excellence. We are caring professionals, people who live, work and dedicate themselves to the communities within New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As such, we strive to provide a sanctuary of excellence, precision, thoroughness and genuine compassion. We also take a whole-person approach to patient care and treatment, tailoring all that we do around their unique needs. And we do all we can for patients, going the extra mile to see that they’re supported, informed and getting the one-on-one care and service they deserve.
Job Description:
JOB SUMMARY:
The Clinical Project & Quality Improvement Lead is responsible for managing a variety of clinical projects, quality improvement initiatives, and safety programs across departments. Acting as a critical thinker who makes sound decisions independently, this role provides structured leadership and oversight to optimize front-line clinical operations, improve workflow processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and elevate patient care and safety.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Project Leadership & Implementation: Acts as a lead for clinical project and quality initiative teams, driving the design, development, execution, and implementation phases of multiple sustainable outcome improvement projects simultaneously.
- Team Facilitation & Coaching: Establishes team membership, motivates members, facilitates meetings, and provides hands-on coaching, mentoring, and direction to diverse project teams and unit councils.
- Strategic Planning & Mapping: Develops comprehensive project plans that identify key issues, approaches, resource requirements, key driver diagrams, and performance metrics using process/system mapping and reliability science strategies.
- Workflow & Process Optimization: Collaborates across departments with leadership and initiative-focused groups to identify opportunities to improve workflow processes, deliver successful results, and build a strong culture of quality and safety.
- Data-Driven Evaluation: Reviews, analyzes, and trends performance data against internal and external benchmarks; creates run charts, PDSA testing documentation, and timely progress reports to drive scorecard improvements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Identifies improvement priorities based on evidence-based practice while ensuring strict compliance with internal standards and external regulatory/accrediting agencies (e.g., The Joint Commission, OSHA, Department of Health, and Federal/State codes).
- Risk & Event Management: Analyzes and investigates clinical event reports, brings concerns to local safety huddles, encourages transparent reporting, and ensures appropriate referral, escalation, and follow-up (including RCA-2 processes as needed).
- Stakeholder Liaison & Communication: Acts as the primary point of contact, liaison, and problem solver for project teams; provides timely, actionable feedback and reports to clinical, administrative, and support staff across all levels of the organization.
- Workforce & Knowledge Dissemination: Assesses project impacts on the workforce, collaborates on training programs for various audiences, and advances clinical science by sharing project outcomes, lessons learned, and best practices internally and at professional forums.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Strong organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills are essential.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present complex data and project outcomes to various levels within the organization.
- Proficiency in the use of computer applications and software including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Expert knowledge of clinical operations, patient safety programs, ahd high-reliability science.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare, or Health Science required (Bachelor of Science in Nursing strongly preferred).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in healthcare required, with at least 2 years of dedicated project planning or performance improvement experience.
- Experience as a clinician in an outpatient ambulatory setting strongly preferred.
- Experience in statistics or clinical research is a plus.
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:
- CPPS (Certified Professional in Patient Safety), PMP (Project Management Professional), Oncology Nursing, or equivalent professional certification required at the time of hire or within 1–2 years of hire.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing and able to travel between Astera/Solara regional sites or facilities as required by project scope.
Pay Range: $92K - $120K annually
Pay Transparency: The above reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
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Why Join Us?
For us, what matters most is excellence. We are caring professionals, people who live, work and dedicate themselves to the communities within New Jersey and Pennsylvania. As such, we strive to provide a sanctuary of excellence, precision, thoroughness and genuine compassion. We also take a whole-person approach to patient care and treatment, tailoring all that we do around their unique needs. And we do all we can for patients, going the extra mile to see that they’re supported, informed and getting the one-on-one care and service they deserve.
Job Description:
JOB SUMMARY:
The Clinical Project & Quality Improvement Lead is responsible for managing a variety of clinical projects, quality improvement initiatives, and safety programs across departments. Acting as a critical thinker who makes sound decisions independently, this role provides structured leadership and oversight to optimize front-line clinical operations, improve workflow processes, ensure regulatory compliance, and elevate patient care and safety.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Project Leadership & Implementation: Acts as a lead for clinical project and quality initiative teams, driving the design, development, execution, and implementation phases of multiple sustainable outcome improvement projects simultaneously.
- Team Facilitation & Coaching: Establishes team membership, motivates members, facilitates meetings, and provides hands-on coaching, mentoring, and direction to diverse project teams and unit councils.
- Strategic Planning & Mapping: Develops comprehensive project plans that identify key issues, approaches, resource requirements, key driver diagrams, and performance metrics using process/system mapping and reliability science strategies.
- Workflow & Process Optimization: Collaborates across departments with leadership and initiative-focused groups to identify opportunities to improve workflow processes, deliver successful results, and build a strong culture of quality and safety.
- Data-Driven Evaluation: Reviews, analyzes, and trends performance data against internal and external benchmarks; creates run charts, PDSA testing documentation, and timely progress reports to drive scorecard improvements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Identifies improvement priorities based on evidence-based practice while ensuring strict compliance with internal standards and external regulatory/accrediting agencies (e.g., The Joint Commission, OSHA, Department of Health, and Federal/State codes).
- Risk & Event Management: Analyzes and investigates clinical event reports, brings concerns to local safety huddles, encourages transparent reporting, and ensures appropriate referral, escalation, and follow-up (including RCA-2 processes as needed).
- Stakeholder Liaison & Communication: Acts as the primary point of contact, liaison, and problem solver for project teams; provides timely, actionable feedback and reports to clinical, administrative, and support staff across all levels of the organization.
- Workforce & Knowledge Dissemination: Assesses project impacts on the workforce, collaborates on training programs for various audiences, and advances clinical science by sharing project outcomes, lessons learned, and best practices internally and at professional forums.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Strong organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills are essential.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present complex data and project outcomes to various levels within the organization.
- Proficiency in the use of computer applications and software including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Expert knowledge of clinical operations, patient safety programs, ahd high-reliability science.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare, or Health Science required (Bachelor of Science in Nursing strongly preferred).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in healthcare required, with at least 2 years of dedicated project planning or performance improvement experience.
- Experience as a clinician in an outpatient ambulatory setting strongly preferred.
- Experience in statistics or clinical research is a plus.
LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:
- CPPS (Certified Professional in Patient Safety), PMP (Project Management Professional), Oncology Nursing, or equivalent professional certification required at the time of hire or within 1–2 years of hire.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be willing and able to travel between Astera/Solara regional sites or facilities as required by project scope.
Pay Range: $92K - $120K annually
Pay Transparency: The above reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.
#INDHP
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Who's Hiring
- American Heart Association92
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in clinical lead jobs.
- Active clinical license appropriate to the practice setting, such as RN, LCSW, or LPT
- Minimum two to five years of direct clinical experience in the relevant specialty or care setting
- Demonstrated supervisory or team leadership experience over clinical staff
- Proficiency with electronic health record systems such as Epic, Cerner, or PointClickCare
- Experience with quality improvement initiatives, compliance audits, or accreditation processes
- Strong written communication skills for documentation, reporting, and interdisciplinary coordination
Tips for Your Clinical Lead Job Search
Quantify outcomes your team delivered
Clinical leads are hired to improve care delivery, so your resume needs outcome data. Replace vague responsibilities with specifics: reduced readmission rates, improved staff retention, or cut onboarding time for new clinicians. Hiring managers in clinical settings respond to measurable results over duties.
Match your credentials to the specialty
A clinical lead role in behavioral health expects different licensure than one in home health or acute care. Before applying, confirm your active license, any required certifications like BLS or specialty credentials, and that they align with the posting's required scope of practice for that setting.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists clinical lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by care setting not just title
The clinical lead title covers very different day-to-day realities across inpatient, outpatient, community health, and telehealth settings. Filter your search by setting type and read the reporting structure carefully. A lead who thrives in an outpatient clinic may struggle in an acute inpatient environment.
Prepare a clinical scenario for interviews
Most clinical lead interviews include a behavioral or situational component around staff conflict, patient safety events, or quality improvement decisions. Draft a concise story for each using a situation, your specific action, and the clinical or operational outcome. Vague answers about teamwork are the most common interview mistake.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate pay
Before accepting an offer, confirm exactly how many direct reports you'll carry, whether the role includes administrative hours or is purely clinical, and what authority you hold over scheduling and hiring. Misaligned expectations about scope cause more early exits from clinical lead roles than any other factor.
Clinical Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most clinical leads?
The companies hiring the most clinical leads right now include American Heart Association, CVS Health, and Ascension, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Illinois, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand tends to be highest in organizations expanding outpatient, home health, or behavioral health programs.
How many clinical lead jobs are remote?
About 75% of clinical lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, which reflects the hands-on nature of most clinical environments. Remote clinical lead roles are most common in telehealth, utilization review, care management, and quality improvement functions where direct patient contact is not required.
How do you become a clinical lead?
Start by building several years of direct clinical experience in your specialty, then seek out charge nurse, senior clinician, or team lead responsibilities that put you in front of scheduling, mentoring, or compliance work. Completing any relevant specialty certifications strengthens your candidacy. Most employers also expect you to demonstrate a quality improvement project you initiated or led before making the transition to a formal clinical lead title.
Can you get a clinical lead job with limited leadership experience?
Yes, if you can show informal leadership contributions alongside your clinical record. Employers filling clinical lead roles at smaller organizations, community health centers, or rapidly growing telehealth companies are often open to candidates who have mentored peers, served as a preceptor, led a protocol update, or coordinated care across a multidisciplinary team, even without a formal supervisory title on their resume.
What does the clinical lead interview process look like?
Most clinical lead interviews run two to three rounds. The first is typically a phone or video screen with HR focused on licensure, schedule fit, and basic leadership background. The second round is usually with a clinical director or VP and includes scenario-based questions about staff conflict, patient safety events, and quality metrics. Some organizations add a panel interview with peers or a brief written exercise around a care improvement scenario.
Where can I find and apply to clinical lead jobs?
You can find and apply to clinical lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your specialty, setting, and location, then apply directly to each listing from the same place.
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