Assistant Director - South Bay Region Clinics

University of California - Los Angeles Health; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of California is seeking an Assistant Director to serve as the primary operational partner and deputy to the Operations Director. This role supports daily clinic operations, staff management, and stepping in during the Director's absence to ensure patient care and clinic performance.

The position drives strategic initiatives, provides financial oversight through budget management and performance monitoring, and identifies cost optimization opportunities across multiple clinic

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership, planning and change management skills.
• Ability to persuade and influence across levels to achieve results.
• Healthcare managerial experience with high patient visit volume.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to analyze information to make decisions for current and future needs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Establish a culture of integrity within and outside the unit.
• Knowledge of industry standards, trends and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to convey complex problems and proposals clearly.

Responsibilities

• Support daily clinic operations and staff management as deputy to the Operations Director.
• Step in during the Director's absence to make critical patient care and clinic performance decisions.
• Lead strategic initiatives and projects with financial oversight across multiple clinics.
• Monitor performance and identify cost optimization opportunities across locations.
• Direct supervision of 3+ clinic managers within the assigned region.

Skills

Healthcare leadership

Budget management

Staff management

Strategic initiatives

Data analysis

Communication skills

Change management

Regulatory knowledge

Diplomacy

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Description

This role serves as the primary operational partner and deputy to the Operations Director, responsible for supporting daily clinic operations, staff management, and stepping in during the Director's absence to make critical decisions impacting patient care and clinic performance. The position also leads strategic initiatives and projects while providing financial oversight through budget management, performance monitoring, and identifying cost optimization opportunities across multiple clinic locations. Additionally, the Asst. Director will provide direct oversight of 3+ targeted clinics within the assigned region, to include direct supervision of those respective clinic managers.

Salary range: $108,900- $241,500

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership, planning and change management skills
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of diplomacy in persuading and influencing a wide variety of people at various levels to achieve results.
• Previously demonstrated Healthcare managerial experience and expertise in managing patient services and nursing staffing in environment with a high volume of patient visits.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards and/or regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze all pertinent information/data to make and communicate decisions to meet the unit's current and future needs.
• Effective interpersonal and political acumen skills.
• Ability to establish a culture of integrity within their unit and with those external to the units.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards, trends and/or regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written
• Skill in analyzing information, problems, situations and procedures to define objectives, identify patterns, and formulate conclusions.
• Skill in setting priorities, which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.
• Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with faculty, residents, medical students and staff from various social, cultural and economic backgrounds
• Skill in communication to clearly convey complex problems and proposals in both formal and informal situations.