Senior Medical Director Medical Specialties Peaks Region

Job Description:

The Senior Medical Director for the Medical Specialties Service Line serves as the physician leader for Peaks Region physicians and advanced professionals (APs). The Senior Medical Director works collaboratively in a dyad leadership structure with a service line director. The Senior Medical Director drives engagement of physicians and APs, assures clinical best practice is achieved in accordance with the Fundamentals of Extraordinary Care across the medical specialties, and assures strong workforce planning in all disciplines. The Senior Medical Director provides leadership, oversight, and support for the development of a culture of high reliability and the measurement of care, identifying opportunities, building relationships, and executing on strategies to drive the performance and measured improvement of the service line. The Senior Medical Director selects, guides, and develops their service line medical leaders to manage domains and achieve service line goals. The Senior Medical Director works collaboratively with all assigned Region disciplines including Medical Group, peer service lines and markets, as well as Enterprise disciplines, including Clinical Programs, Clinical Shared Services, Research, Medical Education, and the clinically integrated network.

Scope

The Senior Medical Director is a region-wide leadership role reporting to the specialty-defined Associate Chief Medical Officer in assigned region with accountability for the specific Service Line. The position operates in a dyad leadership structure with key organizational relationships across Intermountain Health with a specific focus on leading the performance, continuous improvement, and strategic direction of the service line in the assigned region. The Senior Medical Director supervises medical leaders and medical group employed physicians and APPs in the service line.

Job Essentials

This physician is a model clinical leader for our model healthcare system as evidenced by integrity, passion, and energy; being a champion of Intermountain’s mission, vision, and values; effective implementation of Intermountain’s operating model; professional demeanor and presentations; professional proposals and business plans.

1. Leads Physicians and APs and others in collaborations and defines and establishes care models that best meet patient needs and the fundamentals of extraordinary care (quality, safety, patient experience, equity, access, stewardship, engaged caregivers, and smart growth).

a. Ensures that evidence-based clinical care standards are established and effectively implemented across the region for appropriate caregivers.

b. Leads implementation of innovative care delivery models, consulting with Enterprise Clinical c. Programs on model development.

c. Sets a culture of team-based care and develops standards and processes to optimize high-functioning clinical care teams.

d. Establishes referral standards and compacts between primary and specialty care to ensure consistent, high-quality, coordinated, and efficient care.

e. Leads development of care processes to support value and risk-based payment models, including the use of virtual consults, eConsults, and traditional patient visits.

2. Creates an environment that maximizes the engagement and professional satisfaction of physicians and APPs.

3. Supervises and promotes the development of subordinate physician leaders in the portfolio’s specialties.

4. Assures seamless coordination and delivery of specialty care across the continuum (acute, ambulatory, home, virtual).

a. Participates in the mapping of the patient care journey from ambulatory care settings through episodic acute care settings, collaborating effectively at intersections of care.

5. Leads workforce planning for the service line, including the process to identify where and how care should be provided across the region,

6. Leads the physician recruitment process for the system for specialists within the portfolio’s specialties, including, leading the development of the annual physician recruitment plan, involving all key stakeholders in the process.

7. Leads physician and APP retention efforts.

8. Establishes professional standards for physicians within the portfolio’s specialties in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.

9. Builds and fosters physician and APP alignment across the region.

10. Collaborates with medical group clinics and hospitals to ensure effective performance of and satisfaction with services provided.

11. Supports and drives results for key quality, experience, cost, and utilization metrics.

12. Effectively communicates to boards, colleagues, community, and other health systems the work and successes of the clinical program and service line.

13. Effectively addresses performance concerns for providers, including peer review for cases within the portfolio’s specialties, in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.

14. Supports appropriate research endeavors and research strategy within the portfolio’s specialties by working collaboratively with the Office of Research.

15. Supports appropriate academic endeavors and strategy within the portfolio’s specialties by working collaboratively with the Offices of Research and Medical Education.

16. Participates in the strategic planning and goal setting processes for the portfolio’s specialties, ensuring that annual goals and key performance metrics are established.

a. Promotes goal achievement and maintains goals set by the organization.

17.Evaluates annual performance for physician leaders within the portfolio’s specialties.

18. Provides specialty specific review and/or consultation as requested by SelectHealth or others. 19.Provides specialty specific consultation as requested by Digital Transformation Information Systems.

Minimum Qualifications

• M.D or D.O. with board certification in specialty. Degree must be obtained through an accredited institution. Education is verified.
• ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification
• Active Medical Licensure, or in process of obtaining licensure.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
• Three years of clinical experience in an applicable specialty practice setting.
• Three years of experience leading successful improvement in clinical settings.
• Experience with change management with the ability to provide leadership in the adaptation and implementation of new processes or technology that enhance safety.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Three years of progressive healthcare leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex health system (hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post-acute care, etc.).
• Demonstrated leadership of clinicians.
• Certified in healthcare communication, coaching, or an equivalent experience with external entities that drive and support Experience of Care approaches and standards, including government agencies, academic institutions, universities and related organizations of higher education, and other public institutions.
• This position does not require you to be based in Denver. Location is open to IH regions.*

Physical Requirements:

Anticipated job posting close date:

08/26/2024

Location:

Peaks Regional Office

Work City:

Broomfield

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

16

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

$1.00 – $1,000.00

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.

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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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