Chief Clinical Officer

Talentcare, LLC; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Hopebridge seeks an Executive Chief Clinical Officer to lead the clinical function across sites. You will set long-term clinical strategy, drive enterprise growth, and ensure patient safety and clinical integrity while partnering with HR and operations.

You will oversee clinical leadership, define competencies, curricula, and professional practice; build an integrated multidisciplinary care model; govern quality, safety, and outcomes; and represent the organization to payers and regulators.

Qualifications

• Doctoral-level clinical leadership with expertise in autism, neurodevelopmental conditions, pediatric behavioral health, or related fields.
• Executive leadership experience in healthcare organizations.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary care models and governance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive leadership of the clinical function across the enterprise.
• Set long-term clinical strategy and drive enterprise growth and performance.
• Define clinical competencies, supervision standards, and professional practice expectations.
• Oversee clinical curricula, education pathways, and evidence-based training content.
• Partner with HR and Clinical Operations on onboarding, coaching, and development.
• Build a culture of ethical practice, collaboration, learning, and accountability.
• Represent Hopebridge to payers, providers, regulators, and professional bodies.

Skills

Executive leadership

Clinical strategy

Governance

Quality management

Change management

Education

PhD/PsyD/MD in relevant field

Board certification preferred

Leadership experience in healthcare

Job description

Job Responsibilities

Executive Leadership of the Clinical Function

• Set the long-term clinical strategy and contribute to enterprise growth, transformation, financial sustainability, and organizational performance while maintaining patient safety and clinical integrity.
• Lead and develop the clinical strategy, professional practice, and care model leaders assigned to the CCO through the approved organizational structure. Provide enterprise clinical direction across disciplines in partnership with Clinical Operations.
• Define clinical competencies, supervision standards, clinical leadership capabilities, and professional practice expectations. Oversee clinical curricula, education pathways, and evidence-based training content.
• Partner with Human Resources and Clinical Operations on clinical onboarding, coaching, professional development, and succession readiness. Contribute clinical expertise to workforce strategy; operational staffing and labor deployment remain with Operations, in partnership with HR.
• Build a culture of ethical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, learning, and accountability. Communicate clinical changes and equip leaders to support adoption.
• Manage the relationship with the Clinical Advisory Board and use its expertise to inform clinical strategy, standards, care model development, and evidence review.
• Represent Hopebridge with payers, providers, regulators, accrediting bodies, professional organizations, academic institutions, and healthcare partners.

Development of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Model

• Design and continuously improve an integrated care model supporting whole-child and whole-family care across clinical disciplines and locations.
• Define evidence-based care pathways, treatment planning, interdisciplinary coordination, transition and discharge standards, and expected patient outcomes.
• Establish clinical requirements for medical necessity, individualized care, documentation, and defensible treatment decisions aligned with payer expectations and applicable professional and regulatory requirements.
• Approve the clinical design of new programs , treatment models, curricula, and clinical solutions. Establish safety, evidence, training, adoption, and fidelity requirements before operational launch.
• Partner with the CCOO to assess feasibility, center readiness, staffing implications, and implementation sequencing. Monitor adoption and fidelity and address clinical barriers with the operational owners.
• Embed innovation within evidence-based care model development. Evaluate emerging science and establish a multi-year research, outcomes, and clinical solution roadmap with appropriate clinical and quality review.
• Develop academic and healthcare partnerships and share credible outcomes and practice insights through publications, conference presentations, and other professional forums.

Leadership of Clinical Quality Management and Governance

• Establish the clinical quality strategy and outcomes framework, including patient safety, care effectiveness, family experience, documentation quality, fidelity, and continuous improvement.
• Lead the Clinical Governance Council as the forum for clinical standards, care model decisions, and professional practice. Establish clear charters, decision rights, escalation pathways, and alignment with the approved enterprise Quality and Compliance structure.
• Oversee development, approval, maintenance, and review of clinical policies, protocols, practice guidelines, competency requirements, and program approval criteria.
• Provide clinical leadership to quality assessment and performance improvement through the approved management committee structure. Partner with Quality and Compliance on committee design, quality reporting, and escalation to the designated Board committee.
• Define clinical audit, peer review, fidelity, and inspection expectations; interpret findings and set clinical improvement priorities. Quality and Compliance retain responsibility for audit administration and regulatory processes within their assigned functions.
• Periodically review operational indicators with implications for clinical quality and service integrity, including claims errors, prior authorization denials, and documentation patterns. Identify systemic clinical risks and ensure responsible functions address them.
• Establish clinical remediation requirements, review the adequacy of clinical responses, and monitor recurring findings and effectiveness. Quality, Compliance, and Operations own their assigned corrective action workflows and operational closure.
• Provide executive and Board reporting on clinical outcomes, safety, quality trends, material risks, and improvement progress. Quality oversight evaluates patterns and response effectiveness without assuming day-to-day operational management.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Education and Credentials

Doctoral degree in a clinical, medical, or behavioral health discipline with demonstrated expertise in autism, neurodevelopmental conditions, pediatric behavioral health, or related fields. Qualified backgrounds may include:

• PhD or PsyD in Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, School Psychology, or a related discipline.
• MD or DO with specialization in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, or a related specialty.
• Doctoral-level behavior analyst with BCBA-D designation and demonstrated executive leadership and multidisciplinary clinical oversight.
• Other doctoral-level healthcare professionals with significant relevant experience.

Preferred credentials and experience include relevant board certification or advanced specialty credentials; leadership of multidisciplinary healthcare organizations; oversight of ABA, Speech-Language Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Diagnostics, and Behavioral Health programs; and leadership of quality, safety, accreditation, governance, and outcomes initiatives.

Required Experience

• Executive leadership in healthcare, behavioral health, autism services, developmental services, or pediatric healthcare, including large organizations operating across multiple sites.
• Demonstrated success developing multidisciplinary care models and leading clinical quality improvement, outcomes measurement, professional practice, and governance.
• Experience leading enterprise transformation and clinical change through effective partnership with Operations, Quality, Compliance, and HR.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to influence Boards, executive teams, clinicians, and external stakeholders.