Behavioral Health, Senior Medical Director, Behavioral Health - Desert Region

Job Description

Scope

The Senior Medical Director is a region-wide leadership role reporting to the Regional Associate Chief Medical Officer, Specialties, with accountability for the Behavioral Health Service Line. The Senior Medical Director 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 Behavioral Health in the region. The Senior Medical Director supervises subordinate medical leaders and Medical Group employed physicians, therapists, and APPs in the service line.

Job Essentials

The Senior Medical Director 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.

Leads Physician and Advanced Practice Provider 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Supervises and promotes the development of subordinate physician leaders in the service lines specialties.

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

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

Leads workforce planning for the service line, including the process to identify where and how care should be provided across the region. Leads the physician recruitment process for the region for Behavioral Health specialists, including, leading the development of the annual physician recruitment plan, involving all key stakeholders in the process.

Leads physician, therapists, and APP retention efforts.

Establishes professional standards for physicians within the service lines specialties in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.

Builds and fosters physicians, therapists, and APP alignment across the region.

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

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

Effectively communicates to boards, colleagues, community, and other health systems the work and successes of the service line. Effectively addresses performance concerns for providers, including peer review for cases within the service lines specialties, in collaboration with the Associate Chief Medical Officers.

Supports appropriate research endeavors and research strategy within the service lines specialties by working collaboratively with the Office of Research.

Supports appropriate academic endeavors and strategy within the service lines specialties by working collaboratively with the Offices of Research and Medical Education.

Participates in the strategic planning and goal setting processes for the service lines specialties, ensuring that annual goals and key performance metrics are established. Promotes goal achievement and maintains goals set by the organization.

Evaluates annual performance for physician leaders within the service lines specialties.

Provides specialty specific review and/or consultation as requested by Select Health or others.

Provides specialty specific consultation as requested by Digital Transformation Information Systems.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Communication

Relationship Building

Strategic Planning

People Management

Continual Improvement Process

Workforce Planning

Health Administration

Medical Staff Training

Health Care

Minimum Qualifications

M.D. or D.O. Education must be obtained through an ACGME or AOA accredited institution and will be verified.

Fellow trained in a Behavioral Health specialty through an ACGME or AOA accredited institution and will be verified.

ABMS or equivalent AOA Board Certification

Active Medical Licensure, or in the 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.