APC Service Line Lead, Surgical Specialties (San Francisco, CA)

Sutter Health • San Francisco, CA

3d

About The Position

The APC Service Line Lead for Surgical Specialties serves as the designated Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) leader for the service line. Reporting to the Director of Advanced Practice, the Lead partners with the Surgical Specialties Service Line Physician Chair, operational leaders, and other stakeholders to provide strategic, operational, and professional leadership and supervisory oversight for APCs. The role advances an integrated advanced practice model by promoting practice excellence and standardization, optimizing scope of practice, improving access and capacity, developing future APC leaders, and serving as a liaison between APCs and organizational leadership.

The Lead supports service-line goals, workforce initiatives, clinical practice models, quality improvement, provider engagement, and professional development. Responsibilities include supporting recruitment, onboarding, performance management, employee engagement, coaching, succession planning, and retention, in collaboration with operational leadership. The role also promotes consistent practice standards, evidence-based care, effective APC utilization, team-based care, and improvements in access, continuity, quality, safety, patient experience, and operational efficiency across ambulatory, inpatient, procedural, perioperative, and surgical environments.

This is an internal, term-limited leadership appointment available exclusively to full-time SWBMG APCs currently practicing within the organization and service line. The selected Lead maintains a 0.7 FTE clinical practice in their specialty and receives 0.3 FTE protected time for leadership and administrative responsibilities. The appointment is for two years and may be renewed based on performance, agreed-upon goals, organizational priorities, and leadership needs. It does not include additional compensation or a change in employment status. Clinical expectations will be adjusted to accommodate leadership duties. If the appointment ends or is not renewed, the APC returns to their regular clinical position and applicable clinical expectations and compensation structure.

Annual goals are established with the Director of Advanced Practice and service-line leadership. Performance is reviewed regularly and may be assessed through goal achievement, service-line outcomes, leadership effectiveness, APC engagement, workforce initiatives, quality metrics, and progress toward strategic objectives. The Lead collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, SPMF leadership, and CPMC Operations, and must maintain the licensure, certifications, credentials, and clinical qualifications required for continued APC practice.

Requirements

• Current NP or PA employed full-time (1.0 FTE) within the service line and in good standing.
• At least three years of APC clinical experience.
• Consistently meets performance expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with physicians, APCs, operational leaders, and interdisciplinary teams.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated interest in leadership, professional development, and practice improvement.
• Ability to balance clinical and administrative responsibilities effectively.
• Maintain all licensure, certifications, credentials, and clinical qualifications required for continued APC practice in the specialty and service line.

Nice To Haves

• Five or more years of APC clinical experience.
• Leadership experience through committee participation, project leadership, quality-improvement initiatives, mentorship, precepting, or other formal or informal leadership roles.
• Experience with provider engagement, workflow optimization, operational improvement, or practice-transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing APC practice and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with physician and operational leadership to develop and execute APC strategic priorities and service-line goals.
• Support service-line growth, access expansion, care-model innovation, and organizational decision-making while representing APC perspectives.
• Lead implementation of advanced-practice initiatives aligned with organizational priorities.
• Identify APC workforce needs and recruitment priorities, and participate in candidate screening, interviewing, selection, and onboarding.
• Support APC retention, succession planning, and leadership-pipeline development; identify staffing needs based on growth, access, and operational demands.
• Provide day-to-day professional leadership and support for APCs across the service line.
• Participate with operational leadership in performance evaluations, goal setting, professional development planning, and succession planning.
• Collaborate with operational leadership to address performance concerns, employee relations issues, and performance-improvement activities.
• Promote APC engagement, accountability, professional practice excellence, and adherence to organizational standards; serve as a resource and escalation point for APC practice concerns.
• Promote consistent APC practice standards, facilitate practice standardization and role clarity across departments and clinic sites, and support performance management and annual goal setting.
• Lead efforts to ensure APCs practice at the top of their education, training, and licensure.
• Evaluate opportunities to improve patient access, continuity, capacity, and operational efficiency; support evidence-based practices and care-delivery innovations.
• Partner with physicians and operational leaders to optimize APC utilization, team-based care, and practice integration across ambulatory, inpatient, procedural, perioperative, and surgical settings.
• Lead APC engagement in quality-improvement initiatives, monitor service-line metrics, and identify improvement opportunities.
• Promote accountability, continuous improvement, and clinical excellence; partner with service-line leadership to improve access, surgical throughput, care coordination, and operational efficiency.
• Mentor APCs, champion engagement, communication, and shared governance, and facilitate communication between frontline APCs and organizational leadership.
• Support development of future APC leaders through mentorship and leadership-development initiatives.
• Review workforce, access, productivity, quality, engagement, and retention metrics; use data to identify improvement and growth opportunities.
• Participate in reviews of APC performance and service-line outcomes, and provide updates on APC initiatives and results to the Director of Advanced Practice and service-line leadership.
• Establish annual goals with the Director of Advanced Practice and service-line leadership and participate in regular progress reviews.

Benefits

• Medical coverage beginning on day one, with multiple plan options starting at $0–$50 per month and domestic-partner coverage.
• 100% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
• Employer-funded retirement profit-sharing contribution of 8% up to IRS maximums, with no employee contribution required.
• Annual CME allowance of $3,000.
• Relocation assistance.
• Professional development resources and opportunities for innovation, mentorship, leadership, and community engagement.
• Fully integrated EPIC EMR across clinic and hospital settings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed