Senior Medical Director of Specialty Care
Senior Medical Director of Specialty Care
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Title:Senior Medical Director of adult med/surg inpatient units on the East Bank
Medical Directors Qualifications:
Licensed physician in the State of Minnesota
Member in good standing of the Medical Staff of UMMC
Board Certification in a Medical/Surgical Specialty
Entity reporting: Reports to Vice President of Medical Affairs
Term: 1 year
Position Support: 0.2 FTE
Job Description
Provide professional medical direction and leadership for the adult inpatient units on the East Bank. This individual will work closely with Director of Nursing dyad partner to constantly improve the provision of high-quality patient centered care. Lead by example and engage physicians and staff in creating a positive work environment that values excellence teamwork and constantly strives to exceed patient and family expectations. This will be supported at a 0.3 FTE this time will need to be protected by the individuals primary employer/supervisor.
Reporting Relationships:
- Primary reporting relationship to the VPMA at UMMC
- Matrixed relationship to appropriate Domains or Service Lines
Principal Responsibilities:
In partnership with the Director of Nursing and the MHealth FV UMMC leadership team the senior medical director will:
- Assist in creating an environment which drives for quality safety and operational efficiency
- Partner with UMMC leadership team to create and implement initiatives to achieve organizational goals.
- Collaborate with domain and/or service line leadership to ensure the inpatient programs are appropriately implementing care standards strategic priorities regulatory and quality goals
- Communicate with physicians/providers to ensure they are aware of current initiatives and plans
- Identify annual goals that support organizational strategic plan and objectives as related to the 5 performance dimensions : Quality & Safety Efficiency Staff Engagement Patient Experience and Efficiency
- Work with site administrative leadership to pro-actively address patient concerns and complaints.
- Address patient flow coding concerns safety issues staffing level budget resources/utilization and capital equipment planning personnel performance and revenue projections.
- Actively participate in the identification and resolution of issues raised by staff (e.g. medical resident nursing or other health care team members) and patients/families. This includes those issues raised in COMPASS and outside of COMPASS
- Collaborate with Director of Nursing unit managers quality and patient safety for safety event investigation and RCA action plan development and implementation
- Oversee assigned medical directors to ensure performance towards expectations
Independent responsibility:
- Meet regularly with dyad Director of Nursing and UMMC senior leadership team.
- Meet regularly with assigned medical directors
- Serve as a leader as appropriate within appropriate domain or service line
- Accountable for spread of system best practices developed by domain/service line within UMMC Lead safety across the units of responsibility through Rounding to Influence
- Provide clinical expertise and guidance in the areas applicable to the inpatient services.
- Provide assistance and advisement for regulatory compliance issues.
- Attend the UMMC safety call/huddle at least once per week.
- Liaison with appropriate academic divisions to ensure engagement between academic divisions and clinical care teams.
- Respect and represent ALL members of the health care team that work in the inpatient arena.
- Demonstrate effective communication and teamwork skills.
- Demonstrate the elements of the desired organizational culture during patient care and in working with the inter-professional team.
- Demonstrate the ability to balance and support decisions of the organization that may conflict with individual goals or specific service line/inpatient service requests.
Education/Experience Requirements:
- Active clinical practice.
- Experienced leader with 3 years in a large care delivery system; demonstrated experience in strategic and operational leadership
- Formal training or significant experience in quality improvement
- Ability to work with physicians staff and leadership.
- Demonstrated success in delivering results within available resources.
- Extensive experience working in a collaborative manner with physicians clinicians staff and other leaders; must have examples of successful collaborative efforts.
Qualifications/Attributes:
- Has a strong performance orientation and skillful strategic thinking. Establishes clear expectations and continuously measures performance. Maintains focus on priorities.
- Demonstrated success in creating and driving change that focuses on sustained improvement.
- Demonstrated leadership and an ability to manage effectively through influence and motivate others.
- Maintains a commitment to quality and service in all aspects of their work.
- Has a proven customer focus and delivers on commitments.
- Collaborative style with the ability to engage multiple stakeholders with differing viewpoints.
- Possesses unquestionable professional integrity and a candid honest style which evokes credibility and inspires confidence.
- Is willing to articulate her/his position and concerns; is comfortable challenging the prevailing point of view.
University of Minnesota Physicians (M Physicians) a non-profit organization headquartered in Minneapolis seeks motivated individuals for both clinical and non-clinical roles to drive innovation in health and medicine. Our inclusive culture offers competitive salaries excellent benefits and the opportunity for career development in the exciting field of health care to over 1200 physicians 300 advanced practice providers and 2200 health professionals and staff across Minnesota and beyond.
Join us on a mission to advance medicine.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Part-Time
