Population Health & Sustainability Lead

UCSF•San Francisco, CA

2d•$90,700 - $150,000

About The Position

The UCSF Center for Advancing Dyadic Care in Pediatrics (CADP) is seeking an experienced professional and leader with a background in population health, managed care quality, and Medicaid financing who has a passion for public health, particularly at the intersection of mental health, social justice, and pediatric health care. This position will serve as the Lead for the Population Health, Quality & Sustainability Strategy Workstream for the UCSF CADP. The workstream lead will focus on how the CADP maximizes impact, scale, and long-term sustainability. The role will be responsible for supporting partnerships with key stakeholders and partners, including California Managed Care Plans and government organizations, such as the California Department of Health Care Services, where they will draw upon their skills and expertise in health center operations, population health strategy, and Medicaid policy and finance to advance the objectives of the workstream. This key workstream joins five other leads of distinct workstreams and a dynamic, mission-driven staff to collaboratively advance the vision of the UCSF CADP, which is to make family-centered, dyadic behavioral health promotion and prevention a routine and sustainable standard of pediatric health care in early childhood. This role will focus primarily on scale, spread, and sustainability of dyadic services in California, integrating expertise in operations, policy, and payment to inform the CADP strategy of promoting utilization and implementation of new Dyadic Services Medi-Cal Benefit (created as part of the Governor’s Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative). This position is critical to supporting population health, community, provider, and government stakeholders in implementing dyadic care services. Working closely with UCSF CADP executive leadership to guide strategic goals and objectives, the Workstream Lead will function autonomously and as part of a team to develop, manage, and track deliverables from the Population Health, Quality, and Sustainability Strategy workstream. They will rely on best practices for innovating practice change and improvements, and promoting improved access to care. They will develop, oversee, and supervise the work of the Population Health, Quality and Sustainability Workstream, including a quality and sustainability specialist and a project manager in implementation of the workstream goals. The Population Health & Sustainability Lead represents an exciting opportunity to work closely with cross-sector community, public health, government, and healthcare finances partnerships to promote and expand access to family-centered, preventative behavioral health care for infants and young children. The ideal candidate will have experience working in Medicaid managed care settings and interfacing with fast-paced hospital or public health settings, familiarity with common health and process outcome metrics, and is comfortable working with multiple stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds (clinical, public health, community-based organizations, and patient stakeholders). The ideal candidate will be able to function both independently and as part of a team. It is preferred that the candidate have experience with managed care plans, pediatric health care, early childhood health and mental health, and public health financing.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related area and minimum five years of experience or equivalent experience / training.
Minimum 3 years experience supervising staff in carrying out operational goals
Minimum 3 years experience in population health or related Medicaid quality experience
Thorough knowledge of organization or initiative processes, protocols and procedures.
Solid knowledge of / common organizational- or research-specific computer application programs.
Strong analytical / problem-solving skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate and influence others, both verbally and in writing.
Advanced project management skills.
Ability to multi-task with demanding timeframes.
Ability to use discretion and maintain all confidentiality.
Solid knowledge of applicable policy analysis techniques.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare leader with high degree of technical expertise in Medi-Cal managed care operations, such as programs CalAIM, and the Children & Youth Behavioral Health Initiative
Education and training expertise and experience
Business development knowledge
Minimum 5 years experience in public health or Medicaid-related work
Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Manages and directs the work of a section / department.
Manages the population health, quality and sustainability workstream, including development, implementation, and oversight of the workstream goals.
Leads and supervises the activities of the population health, quality, and sustainability workstream, overseeing the work of workstream staff in the implementation of workstream goals. This includes primary focus activities in: Lead and implement workstream training efforts, Lead county strategy, Lead sustainability planning, Lead policy translation, Lead managed care strategy, Lead revenue optimization strategy
Design statewide initiatives
Create strategic action plans to improve utilization taking into account barriers and current health care landscape
Develop relationships and lead state engagement with executive level Medi-Cal financing and population health leaders across California
Assumes responsibility for quality and quantity of work.
Recommends hiring of new employees, transfers, promotions, salary actions, terminations, performance management and budget recommendations.
Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Supervises activities associated with the support of a function, research initiative, program and / or organizational unit.
Serve as a consultant in improvement efforts
Working closely with UCSF management to supervise and guide staff in carrying out strategic goals and objectives and align stakeholders
Conducts presentations of technical information concerning specific policies, projects or schedules.
Develop materials and training curriculum that supports improvement in utilization of the new dyadic benefit for to optimize county uptake
Develops and produces best practices materials for dissemination
Develop billing pathways
Lead Engagement/Consulting with managed care plans and health system leaders
Evaluates effectiveness and progress with training practices
Administers organization policies that directly affect subordinate employees.
Participates in the development and monitoring of administrative / research policies and project planning and development for their unit.
Analyze current state of utilization of dyadic care services and barriers to utilization
Analyze Medicaid policy
Functions autonomously, develops, manages, and tracks deliverables
Other duties as assigned