Clinical Director

Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board Inc•Rapid City, SD

20d

About The Position

The Clinical Director, Quality Assurance, is responsible for partnering with the Director of Quality Assurance to ensure effective risk management, infection control, safety, credentialing and privileging, accreditation, and coordinating quality assurance activities across the organization. Within the Quality Department, this position serves as OHC’s primary point of contact for the Chief Medical Officer at the Great Plains Tribal Leader’s Health Board (GPTLHB).

Requirements

Education: Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree from an accredited medical school and successful completion of postgraduate training and an approved residency program.
Experience: Minimum of 5-7 years of clinical experience, with leadership or supervisory experience preferred. Demonstrated experience in quality improvement, project management, or academic collaboration.
Licensure/Certification: Must have a permanent, full, unrestricted license to practice medicine in any U.S. State or Territory. Current, valid, unrestricted Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) License. Must obtain and maintain medical staff clinical privileges, including any license requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills. Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment.
Compliance with our Employee Health Procedure is a condition of employment. You are required to agree that you will comply with all job-related employee health screening and immunizations prior to your first day of employment. Jobs require that you have documentation that you have completed the following immunizations prior to your first day of employment: MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella, Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Influenza, T-dap (Tetanus - Diphtheria - Pertussis), and COVID-19 vaccination is required.

Responsibilities

Creates, develops, and nurtures culturally appropriate interactions and connections with each other, customer-owners, and the community.
Provides direct care to patients/relatives approximately 70% of the time within the scope of the privileges approved by the Clinical Executive Committee or at other locations as assigned:
Obtains complete and accurate information in a courteous and respectful manner to determine an appropriate treatment plan.
Performs and provides treatment quickly and efficiently while keeping the relative/patient informed and being sensitive to their comfort during the treatment.
Sets the expectation with the relative by listening to their concerns and addressing those that can be addressed and informing the customer-owner of the course of action to follow for other health concerns.
Provides medical input and guidance to Quality Assurance employees and leadership teams across the organization.
Shares and receives information, opinions, concerns, and feedback in a supportive manner.
Works collaboratively by building bridges and creating rapport with team members within departments and across the organization.
Acts as a resource to provider staff and other staff:
Communicate effectively with staff.
Consults and coordination with health care providers working in other departments and in other locations.
Assist health care providers by answering questions regarding relatives' care.
Coordinates with health care providers in various departments and locations to deliver direct care and develop treatment plans for customer-owners.
Works in a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that other departments and services are included in the healthcare plans and in coordinating quality assurance activities across the organization.
Make meaningful improvements to services, programs, processes, and/or organizational effectiveness that create new value for patients/relatives and employees.
Works with all other staff in the department/division(s) as a member of the department/division(s) and the system
Completes analysis of programs on a continuing basis, to make recommendations for program expansion or changes that work towards the achievement of GPTLHB’s mission, vision, and values.
Seeks out additional learning opportunities to continue to develop the technical and professional skills needed now and in the future.
Take responsibility for all work activities and personal actions by following through with commitments.
Responsible for partnering with the Director of Quality Assurance to ensure effective processes for risk management, infection control, employee health, accreditation, and other associated processes:
Provides medical oversight in the development, implementation, and maintenance of clinical policies and procedures:
Coordinates the development and revision of clinical policies, procedures, and performance standards in conjunction with program leadership and the Quality Assurance department.
Provides input into the development and implementation of education and skill development programs designed to increase the proficiency of staff members in the continuous use of quality management principles to achieve the GPTLHB mission, vision, and values.
Establishes and enforces practice standards to ensure the appropriate standard of care.
Completes the following management functions for those areas in which they have management responsibility:
Plans to facilitate training and development of assigned staff to improve performance.
Develops, monitors, assesses, reviews, and evaluates employee performance based on the established guidelines.
Contributes to the development of the department/division budget.
Participates in various committees and represents GPTLHB at a variety of internal and external meetings.
Develop, coordinate, and supervise assigned staff.
Ensures performance development plans and performance evaluations are completed in a timely manner.