Chief, Children's Physician Group - North Atlanta, United States - Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

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Work Shift

Day

Work Day(s)

Monday-Friday

Shift Start Time

8:00 AM

Shift End Time

5:00 PM

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Children's is one of the nation's leading children's hospitals.

No matter the role, every member of our team is an essential part of our mission to make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

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People first. Children always. Find your next career opportunity and make a difference doing what you love at Children's.

Job Description

The Chief, Children's Physician Group (CPG) is the lead physician executive working closely with the COO CPG, Pediatrician-in-Chief (PIC), and Surgeon-In-Chief (SIC) to build best-in-class practice operations and support for physician practice that attracts and engages physicians.

The position takes the lead on engaging with physicians to support the implementation of practice standards in each division, understanding nuances and how to successfully achieve our ultimate goal of best practice.

This position serves as the physician advisor for all aspects of access, to ensure patients and referring physicians have easy and seamless access to Children's expert care.

The position will work with Division Chiefs to provide performance reporting and coaching on how to continuously improve.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary dyad partner to the COO, CPG
• Lead Physician Executive for Children's Physician Group (CPG), works closely with Pediatrician in Chief and Surgeon in Chief to ensure leading physician practice
• Lead physician working closely with the COO, CPG to support the development and execution of physician practice standards
• In conjunction with COO, CPG, develops goals and objectives for physician practice and access (e.g., KPIs)
• Partner with Division Chiefs to educate them and their physicians on KPIs. Meet routinely to monitor and ensure plans are in place to achieve them
• Serves as the physician advisor for all aspects of access, to ensure patients and referring physician have easy and seamless access to Children's expert care
• In partnership with COO, CPG, lead the design and implementation of the ambulatory strategy, focusing on how to optimally deliver services across metro Atlanta and the state
• Accountable for ambulatory space allocation in partnership with physicians
• Partner with every Division Chief to provide performance reporting and coaching on how to continuously improve
• Lead initiatives that help standardize clinical and operational policies, procedures, and workflows
• Partner with PIC, SIC, Division Chiefs, and dyad partners on business and growth plans, new FTE, recruitment
• Develop clinical FTE physician standards. Partner with Division Chiefs to determine clinical FTE allocation for each Division
• Approve all physician recruitment packages and FTE allocations (in addition to PIC/ SIC)
• Serve as advisor and liaison to Physician Compensation on compensation design and provide insights on how we want physicians to practice (RVUs, etc.)
• Lead governance that includes physicians for physician practices ops, access, and contact center
• Accountable for Primary Care
• Partners with Division Chiefs to optimally design coverage models
• Develop the Digital Health Strategy in partnership with COO, CPG

Experience

• 10+ years experience in a practice leadership role or business leadership role focused on physician practice operations, proven track record in relationship building, experience leading both academic and private practice groups is preferred
• Experience leading a strong proven physician practice organization
• Proven track record of strong multidisciplinary relationship management, communication and building physician and team engagement
• Proven ability to formulate operational and business strategies, guide the development of operating plans, and drive performance to achieve or surpass goals.
• Demonstrated success managing the financial performance of organizations of comparable size and complexity, preferably having had exposure to a regulated rate setting environment.
• Strong financial skills and a proven ability to achieve sustainable and significant cost efficiencies on an organization-wide basis.
• Proven ability to build solid, trusted relationships with physicians, colleagues, employees, donors, community leaders, external partners and regulators.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and evaluate opportunities and take calculated risks to attain superior performance and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to present complex information in a concise, yet comprehensive manner to leadership, medical staff and employees.
• Prior experience collaborating and partnering with an academic institution is strongly preferred.
• Prior leadership experience with a leading pediatric health system preferred.

Education and Certification Summary

• Graduate of an accredited, four-year medical school
• Graduate of an accredited, post-graduate residency program
• Board certified in a relevant specialty and current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the state of Georgia
• Current DEA registration
• Meets eligibility requirements for credentialing as part of the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta medical staff

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to connect with employees and physicians at all levels
• Leadership presence and ability to lead necessary changes
• Listening, adaptability, problem solving, personal motivation, prioritization, organization, sensitivity, positive behavior, time management, communication, strong values, and negotiating skills and aptitudes
• Passion for our Mission - taking care of kids
• Flexibility: Ability to change direction and right the course as needed to meet organizational goals
• Possesses excellent communication skills including effective listening, straight talking, deep understanding of non-verbal communication, and appropriate emotional control

Core Leader Expectations

Builds Organizational Talent

• Forecasts the need for talent to support organizational objectives
• Proactively attracts and recruits talent
• Champions developmental assignments that stretch existing talent
• Fosters an environment that drives career satisfaction
• Delegates to team effectively
• Provides timely feedback on performance

Fosters Strong Relationships

• Seeks opportunities to build relationships and trust
• Facilitates agreement with key stakeholders
• Values others' contributions
• Works effectively with other teams and departments
• Manages conflicts effectively
• Shows consistency between words and actions

Communicates Effectively

• Tells a compelling story, including the "why"
• Adjusts communication style to the listener
• Actively listens to fully understand others
• Regularly keeps the team and others informed by cascading messages
• Communicates in a way that energizes and inspires
• Effectively communicates through writing

Delivers Results and Drives Accountability

• Translates initiatives into action steps and milestones
• Defines expectations with clear performance goals and concrete deliverables.
• Creates and monitors measurement methods to track progress
• Adjusts where needed to execute and deliver targeted results
• Accepts responsibility for their mistakes
• Supports system decisions

Develops Aligned Strategy and Thinks as a System

• Analyzes data to define systemic opportunities, problems, trends, and issues
• Builds strategic and business plans aligned with system strategy
• Makes decisions that support the good of the system
• Stays up to date on industry trends and innovations
• Reminds others of how their team's work contributes to the broader system goals
• Balances short term needs with long term organizational strategy

Makes Informed Decisions

• Clearly defines problems to be solved, trends, and underlying issues
• Gathers all facts and relevant information
• Demonstrates decisiveness and action
• Involves others to make the best decision and ensure buy-in
• Considers the downstream impact of decisions
• Makes effective decisions with incomplete information

Leads Continuous Improvement

• Maintains knowledge of industry-wide best practices and relevant benchmarks
• Analyzes processes and data to determine gaps between current and desired outcomes
• Determines causes that contribute to gaps in performance
• Generates improvement ideas, understanding potential impacts
• Implements improvements, reviewing impacts and modifying solutions
• Learns and adopts new techniques, methods, and technologies to support continuous improvement

Provides Coaching

• Seeks information about an individual's current and long-term development needs
• Diagnoses gaps in knowledge, experiences and skills
• Provides timely, specific and appropriate feedback about performance
• Conveys development expectations and confirms commitment
• Collaborates to create development plans aligned to goals
• Provides feedback to colleagues in a way that is supportive and optimistic

Desired Leadership Experiences

• People management
• Accountability for multiple functions
• Strategy development
• Fiscal management
• Patient management
• Operations and execution
• Led a diverse team

Children's Culture

• Lives People First
• Demonstrates Children's values - Care about People, Passionate about Kids, Dedicated to Better, Committed to Self
• Cares about our mission - kids
• Inspires others and is a visible leader

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic covered by applicable law.

Primary Location Address

1575 Northeast Expy NE

Job Family

Executive