Veterinary Group Medical Director

BluePearl Vet, LLC•St. Louis, MO

9d•Remote

About The Position

BluePearl is searching for an experienced, motivating, and driven clinical leader to join our team as a Group Medical Director! This is a remote position overseeing multiple hospital locations within our Central Division. The Group Medical Director (GMD) has medical oversight of multiple markets within the organization with combined revenues of approximately $100MM or greater. The incumbent has the ultimate responsibility for translation of organizational objectives into market-specific objectives that instill a clinician-driven culture, promote clinician engagement and retention, and yield strong fiscal performance. A GMD frequently travels to hospitals to evaluate and mentor medical leaders and address concerns. The role partners with other members of the field leadership team to ensure a balanced representation of medical quality and financial considerations and the people & organization department to champion consistency in a high performance and engaged workforce united in being BluePearl.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) required.
Completion of 1-year rotating internship required.
7+ years of leadership experience required

Nice To Haves

May be Emergency Clinician or board-certified Specialty Clinician.
previously overseeing multiple sites or revenues exceeding $25MM preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify, oversee and develop medical leaders (Medical Directors and their ER Service Team Leads) to ensure optimal clinician productivity and engagement.
Responsible for creating a clinician-driven culture in assigned markets.
Serve as high-level representative and champion of BluePearl mission and vision in all interactions within the organization and external veterinary community.
Partner with field leaders to effectively communicate and cascade key initiatives impacting medical staff.
Foster a collaborative and trusting relationship between the support team and hospitals.
Partner with field leaders to ensure appropriate productivity levels and growth plans for clinicians and hospitals, including maximizing technical teams.
Monitor reports on operating costs within functional areas. Alerts hospital leaders of cost and labor over run. Partners with field leaders, finance and P&O to assess concerns and implement solutions.
Own the success of on-site visit process for DVM candidates in assigned markets, ensures onboarding and mentoring of new BluePearl Clinicians through BluePearl Mentorship Program.
Ensure standards for medical quality, patient safety reporting, equipment, and clinician productivity/performance are met.
Partner with assigned Vet Relations team to collaborate on pDVM referral strategies that impact assigned markets.
Oversee and encourage support of continuing education programs across assigned markets and ensures programs sufficiently develop and engage technicians and clinicians to deliver remarkable care to patients.
Monitor reports on medical occurrences, patient safety and client experience and partners with stakeholders as needed to ensure swift resolution, improvements, and/or coaching as needed.
Work collaboratively with the BluePearl Support Team to develop solutions for escalated concerns and influences medical leaders to shape adoption and ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
Travel around 50% to ensure in-person leadership and mentoring in hospitals.

Benefits

Trupanion pet insurance
discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
annual continuing education allowance
free continuing education sessions
BluePearl University for training
access to over 2,000 medical journals
Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
Annual company store allowance.
Flexible work schedules.
paid time off
paid parental leave
floating holiday plans.
A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment.