Assistant Medical Director

Assistant Medical Director

The ideal candidate is a collaborative clinical leader with strong communication skills and a commitment to high-quality, efficient patient care. They bring experience supervising licensed providers and ensuring clinical standards, goals, and performance measures are met in a patient care setting.

Working under the direction of the Medical Director of the Health Services Agency, the Assistant Medical Director at each ambulatory care clinic will play a key role in ensuring that the organization's mission, goals, and values are supported and implemented by the clinical staff. The Assistant Medical Director will ensure that medical practices are in place to support high quality, cost-effective and efficient clinical services at the clinic. The individual will oversee and supervise all licensed providers and ensure that the medical program's clinical goals and measures are met at the clinic. The Assistant Medical Director will consult with the Medical Director and other County Leadership to identify program needs, supports and resources. The Assistant Medical Director will maintain positive cooperative working relationships with other departments.

Typical tasks include:

• Responsible for the implementation of medical guidelines and clinical protocols that are in compliance with national standards and federal and state regulatory agencies.
• Leads medical oversight of utilization management, quality, and continuous process improvement at the clinic.
• Serves as Lead Clinician, provides direct patient care, and supervises all MDs, APCs, LCSWs.
• Consults with clinicians, ensures continuous communication, resolution of issues, appropriate coaching, and provides direction as needed on appropriate medical management of patients.
• Works in partnership and as the clinical counterpart to the Clinical Director to ensure efficient, patient centered clinical operations.
• In partnership and under direction with the Medical Director, assists in the planning, implementation, administration and evaluation of all clinical programs and services.
• Works with the Director of Quality to monitor and ensure clinical quality and create and implement improvement plans when necessary.
• In collaboration with Risk Management, reviews, investigates, and resolves patient complaints.
• Supervises onboarding and ongoing training of clinical staff for medical standards and guidelines, new or changed protocols, devices, or equipment.
• Ensures incident reporting is done in a timely manner.
• In conjunction with Human Relations and the Medical Director, participates in the recruitment of clinical staff.
• Leads regularly scheduled meetings with licensed staff to ensure that clinic operations support population health goals.
• Ensures compliance of licensed provider staff with the HSA mission and County policies as they relate to medical care.
• Provides advice and recommendations to the Medical Director on utilization of HSA's clinical resources and medical issues at the clinic.

Minimum qualifications include:

Knowledge of Administration and Management, Administrative, Law and Government, Personnel and Human Resources, Medicine

Skills/Abilities in Speaking, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Management of Personnel Resources, Service Orientation, Systems Evaluation, Instructing, Negotiation, Management of Financial Resources, Learning Strategies

Education/Experience: Medical Degree, Board Certified in Family Practice, Pediatrics or Internal Medicine from an accredited university; AND Two (2) or more years of post-residency experience in primary care clinical setting providing direct patient care; Experience to include patient care management, working knowledge of CPT and ICD-10 coding, formulary and authorization rules and requirements; AND Possession of a valid California medical license or eligible for a valid California Physician license.