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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Pediatric Heart Center APP Manager

Full-Time
$176.3k - $427.9k
Mid, Senior
Master's, PhD
San Francisco, CA, USA+1 moreMore locations: Oakland, CA, USA
In Person
Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryAdvanced Practice Providers

About the job

Requirements
  • A master's degree in a clinical area of study as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner is required.
  • Four to six years of experience as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant in pediatrics is required.
  • Understand and communicate advanced knowledge of national, state, and local educational and legislative issues affecting advanced practice providers, including state and national regulatory requirements.
  • Build knowledge of human resources management policies and be able to train, monitor, evaluate, and document staff issues and performance, and participate in human resources decisions.
  • Have advanced interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with clinical staff and management at all levels, consultants, researchers, and outside agencies.
  • Demonstrate advanced written and verbal communication skills; train and mentor subordinates; communicate complex clinical and technical information clearly; and prepare and present reports, documentation, analyses, and project proposals.
  • Know clinical and administrative software, specialized applications, and data management systems used for advanced-practice care, research, documentation, and employee supervision; analyze data, detect trends, and determine whether action plans are required.
  • Gather clinical information, develop differential diagnoses, create problem lists independently, direct patient management, and lead a care team.
  • Demonstrate leadership, fiscal, and operational management skills and collaborate effectively with physicians, management, and staff across disciplines; create and maintain a goal-oriented climate of teamwork, collaboration, and achievement.
  • Hold a California license as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant.
  • Hold a Drug Enforcement Administration license or be eligible to transfer it to California.
  • Hold a California furnishing certificate if a nurse practitioner.
  • Hold current American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification.
  • If clinical practice is in pediatric critical care, hold current American Heart Association Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification.
  • Have a National Provider Identifier and be eligible for enrollment with all UCSF Health payers before privileging.
  • Hold current national certification in the area of practice specialty or profession.
Responsibilities
  • Provide leadership to advanced practice providers across UCSF Health Faculty Practice Organization and Benioff Children’s Hospitals inpatient and outpatient practice areas, and be responsible for their success.
  • Provide clinical services as determined by the manager and perform administrative functions including future workforce planning, orientation of new advanced practice providers, cost center management, and optimization strategies.
  • Oversee advanced practice provider compliance with organizational and regulatory agency standards and state practice requirements.
  • Ensure advanced practice providers perform duties within their scope of practice.
  • Ensure adequate staffing during operational hours and adjust staffing based on projected patient census and acuity.
  • Collaborate with senior management to develop, improve, and integrate advanced practice provider governance, practice, utilization, and systems across specialties and departments.
  • Maintain clinical practice in the area of expertise.
  • Pursue professional development and facilitate subordinate staff access to ongoing training, development, and educational opportunities; ensure relevant licenses and certifications remain current.
  • Serve on interdisciplinary committees addressing patient care, patient satisfaction, workforce quality improvement, workflow efficiencies, credentialing and privileging, governance, and clinical information systems.
  • Recruit employees, conduct performance evaluations, apply progressive discipline, and develop staff; establish management practices that foster teamwork, collaboration, and timely achievement of objectives.
  • Oversee governance for advanced practice provider research activities, including identifying clinical problems suitable for research, data collection, and community research or committee work; critique research for application to practice and apply findings to policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Work with labor relations on bargaining-unit issues and local contract negotiations; oversee resolution of human resources, labor relations, employee safety, and risk management issues.
  • Coordinate resources for areas of responsibility, including reviewing and approving budget recommendations and preparing and reviewing analyses of budgeted revenues and expenses.
  • Oversee development of procedures and policies that ensure adequate care delivery, including on-call, vacation, and holiday coverage procedures.
  • Partner with managers across services to implement policies and procedures coordinating care for all patient populations.
Desired Qualifications
  • A doctorate is preferred.
  • Four to six years of experience as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant in pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac critical care, or pediatric cardiothoracic surgery is preferred.
  • In-depth knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and legislative, accreditation, licensing, and compliance environments is preferred.
  • One year of experience managing a team of advanced practice providers, complex workflows, and competing priorities, or equivalent experience as an advanced practice leader, is preferred.

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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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