Clinical Executive Director of Clinical Programs

Job Description:

Clinical Programs are the main vehicle to establish and implement clinical best practices within Intermountain Health, measure and demonstrate their patient success, and share these results with the larger community. The Executive Clinical Program Director, will work collaboratively in a dyad partnership with a physician leader to design, integrate, and coordinate clinical programs across the system for a specific clinical service line (Behavioral Health, Cardiovascular, Acute and Ambulatory Medical Specialties, Musculoskeletal, Neurosciences, Oncology, et cetera). This role has direct responsibility for providing leadership to plan, develop, oversee/supervise, coordinate and evaluate services and products relevant to clinical programs and ensure best and leading practices are in place. The leader will influence clinical leaders and drive improvement in the fundamentals of care across the system, in partnership with the regions. The leader and their team will span the healthcare continuum and their services will be designed and deployed to address preventative health, family education, physician/caregiver education, episodic care, and restorative care. The leader will develop partnerships with other healthcare entities, as appropriate, and be the clinical resource on all topics associated with the clinical program.

Scope
This role is a system-wide leadership role reporting to the Enterprise VP of Clinical Programs.The primary focus of the role is on leading the performance and continuous improvement of a specific clinical program and is responsible for the strategic direction of the clinical program. The clinical program will oversee the convening of discipline experts across the system to define clinical best practices, develop care process models including clinical models of the future/value-based models, supporting clinical Best Practice Integration (cBPI) implementations, identifying, and defining important clinical and value performance KPIs, provide content expertise for clinical questions and provide specialty support for P&T and supply chain. This position has direct accountability for a team that designs, facilitates, coordinates, influences and directs clinical programs to ensure appropriate alignment to strategies, patient care models and compliance initiatives. As needed, the leader will collaborate with system leaders, other regional leaders, and other clinical leaders to ensure consistency and extraordinary care and performance across the enterprise.
 

Job Essentials

Clinical Best Practices: Lead their teams in using a prioritization framework for their respective clinical programs. Ensures that evidence-based clinical care standards are established and effectively implemented across the system for appropriate caregivers in partnership with the region leadership. Builds and fosters alignment with best practice across the system including the standardization of clinical content for the single EMR.

clinical Best Practice Integration (cBPI): Be a system champion for the model, processes and use

of the tools around the cBPI pipeline for their Clinical Program. Support their teams to take ATP and apply these problem solving quality improvement methods to their daily work. Lead and manage the system cBPI pipeline with regards to the relevant specialties within the Clinical Program.

Partner with region leadership on effective implementations, including defining, tracking, improving and sustaining clinical KPIs.

Clinical models of the future/value-based models: Leads development of care processes to support value and risk-based payment models, including value KPIs for the system, in partnership with the regions. Partners with teams to demonstrate the financial impact of the system clinical best practices, in both ambulatory and acute settings, for the relevant specialties in the Clinical Program.

Strategy Deployment: Participates in the strategic planning and goal setting processes focusing on best practices sharing for the portfolio’s specialties in the clinical program, ensuring that relevant annual goals and key performance metrics are established. Promotes clinical best practices goal achievement and maintains goals set by the organization. Supports and drives results for associated key quality, experience, cost, and utilization metrics.

Operational Efficiency: Provides clear direction and performance expectations and metrics. Holds leaders, physicians, and caregivers accountable in their performance of all goals and objectives. Evaluates the effectiveness of the Clinical Program's organization identifying opportunities for the Clinical Program's performance improvement from both a clinical and administrative perspective. Builds strong, inclusive and lasting relationships within their own department, with leaders, physicians and caregivers across the enterprise, and externally. Attracts, develops, and retains talent by creating an inclusive work environment. Fosters employee engagement through active listening, empowering, caring, support and coaching.

Minimum Qualifications
 

• Master's degree in a healthcare field/Business from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified
• Nurse license in state they reside, allied health, or 4 years health care experience
• 10 years successful and progressive experience within a health system
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• Demonstrated 5 years successful leadership experience.
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• development/implementation/successProven track record of program
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• Reputation for collaborating and building teams.
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• Experienced in IT applications.
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• Strong written and verbal communications skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a leadership role requiring strong relationships and influence in a matrix environment, requiring work in a fast-paced and changing environment while handling multiple deadlines and priorities.
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• Experience in a role requiring analytical skills and expertise in data management.
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• Five years of experience in nursing, business administration, or service-line specific.
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• Neonatology experience preferred

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals.
 

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
• Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
• See and read computer monitors and documents.
• Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.

Location:

Intermountain Health Primary Childrens Hospital

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$77.50 - $119.68

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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