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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Program Director - Pediatric Cardiovascular

Full-Time
$148k - $360.9k
Expert
Bachelor's, Master's
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & Veterinary

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in a related area, or equivalent experience or training.
  • Five years of work experience as a Pediatric Cardiac Sonographer in a dedicated pediatric Echo Lab.
  • Five years of prior management or supervisory experience in a dedicated pediatric Echo Lab.
  • In-depth clinical practice and applied background in one or more cardiovascular and service areas.
  • Advanced knowledge of industry trends.
  • Strong knowledge of medical center, human resources, and University of California policies and processes.
  • Knowledge of relevant external regulations.
  • Strong leadership, fiscal, and operational management skills.
  • Advanced interpersonal skills to develop and maintain professional relationships with clinical and professional staff at all levels, resolve conflict, foster collaboration, and coordinate cardiovascular services across functions.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate complex issues and resolve problems.
  • Ability to manage conflict and lead others to achieve objectives.
  • Ability to collaborate with senior management on setting objectives.
  • Proven ability to set goals and implement initiatives while meeting deadlines.
  • Ability to actively listen and use advanced communication skills to influence and motivate others.
  • Ability to work collaboratively by soliciting and incorporating the ideas of others.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize effectively to meet deadlines in a complex, challenging environment.
  • Ability to organize assigned staff and unit operations efficiently and effectively.
  • Skills to coordinate schedules for patients, doctors, sonographers, and nurses to serve patients in a timely manner.
  • Ability to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with physicians, researchers, sonographers, and other clinical staff.
  • Interpersonal skills to work with varied patient populations and demonstrate sensitivity.
Responsibilities
  • Provides strategic and operational leadership for the Pediatric Echocardiography Laboratory, Fetal Cardiovascular Program, and Pediatric Stress/EKG Laboratory.
  • Oversees clinical practice, operations, quality, accreditation, regulatory compliance, and resource management to support safe, high-quality, patient-centered care.
  • Directs multidisciplinary teams, establishes operational strategies, implements programs and service standards, and manages staffing, fiscal, and material resources.
  • Collaborates with physician and administrative leadership to optimize patient access, coordinate clinical operations, mitigate risk, and drive continuous improvement across the continuum of care.
  • Manages day-to-day operations for the Pediatric Echo Lab, Fetal Cardiovascular Program, and Pediatric Stress/EKG Lab.
  • Implements lean management tools to align the areas with goals and improve operations toward targets.
  • Ensures managers and supervisors implement clinical workflows, equipment standards, and cardiovascular best practices effectively.
  • Facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration to improve practices and integrate services for patients and physicians.
  • Represents cardiovascular services on interdisciplinary committees.
  • Ensures guidelines are in place for quality assurance testing and monitoring of cardiovascular technology and equipment.
  • Identifies trends and short- and long-term solutions to resolve problems and improve performance.
  • Keeps current with trends in cardiovascular care delivery and collaborates with peers at other University institutions on staffing, workflows, policies and protocols, equipment, cost containment, and other operational issues.
  • Coordinates with stakeholders to ensure timely care delivery across multiple locations and inpatient, outpatient, and outreach populations.
  • Implements restructuring and change management initiatives to support program strategy.
  • Develops and reviews long-term strategic goals with senior leadership.
  • Oversees establishment of service, productivity, and cost-containment metrics.
  • Develops programs and initiatives based on industry best practices.
  • Facilitates problem definition and goal setting around True North Boards.
  • Aligns incentive award program goals with UCSF Health organizational objectives.
  • Manages personnel actions, including hiring, work schedules, corrective action, counseling, and performance evaluations.
  • Provides leadership to cardiovascular service managers and supervisors.
  • Reviews and approves individual professional development plans and plans for succession.
  • Identifies professional development program needs for cardiovascular service staff.
  • Builds teamwork to support daily operations, interdepartmental collaboration, and achievement of objectives.
  • Works with clinical educators and leadership to evaluate clinical team core competencies.
  • Facilitates and oversees resolution of human resources, labor relations, employee safety, and risk management issues.
  • Forecasts staffing for workforce planning and partners with Labor Relations to ensure compliance with bargaining agreement rules in disciplinary actions.
  • Forecasts, develops, and monitors fiscal planning for cardiovascular services.
  • Monitors budget expenditures, coordinates resource needs, and ensures cost-competitive acquisition of supplies and equipment.
  • Prepares variance analyses of budgeted resources and investigates discrepancies.
  • Addresses capital equipment needs regularly.
  • Manages revenue functions, including auditing for quality and compliance, educating providers about coding requirements, and recommending system improvements.
  • Works with billing and registration staff to improve services and provides training on new policies and procedures.
  • Manages patient care cost-effectively and in accordance with organizational financial goals.
  • Plans and is accountable for the annual operating and capital budgets for assigned areas.
  • Manages the replacement and investment-position process, including attending eRF meetings.
  • Collaborates with senior leadership and physicians on short- and long-term program planning.
  • Participates in national organizational meetings and committees to gain broader operational perspective.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree in a related area, or equivalent experience or training.
  • Five years of clinical work experience in an academic setting.
  • One year of experience in budget management.
  • Demonstrated ability to improve the efficiency and delivery of cardiovascular processes and procedures while maintaining patient care standards and regulatory compliance.

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UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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