Assistant Director - South Bay Region Clinics

UCLA Health; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

UCLA Health in Long Beach, CA seeks an experienced healthcare operations leader to support daily clinic operations, staff management, and strategic initiatives across multiple clinics. The role serves as deputy to the Operations Director and includes budget oversight and critical decision-making to maintain patient care quality and clinic performance.

The candidate will oversee 3+ clinics within the region, driving efficiency, variable staffing, and process improvements in a high-volume

Qualifications

• Clinical leadership and change management experience.
• Experience managing patient services and nursing staffing in high-volume settings.
• Knowledge of industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary operational partner and deputy to the Operations Director.
• Support daily clinic operations and staff management.
• Lead strategic initiatives and projects with budget oversight.
• Oversee 3+ clinics and supervise clinic managers.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Staff management

Budget management

Strategic planning

Diplomacy

Communication

Decision making

Job description

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Work Location: Long Beach, CA, USA

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; may vary

Posted Date

10/28/2026

Salary Range: $108900.00 - 241500.00 Annually

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

33732

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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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

Job 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.
  

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.