Clinic Manager

National Jewish Health; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

National Jewish Health is seeking a leader to manage daily clinical operations, administrative functions, and financial activities across clinical service areas in Denver, CO. The role provides direction in planning, change and conflict management and mentors a multidisciplinary team to deliver high‑quality care.

Collaboration with physicians and clinical leaders will drive safe, efficient care, with a focus on professionalism and interprofessional team development to achieve excellence in

Responsibilities

• Manages and develops an effective staff: communication, leadership, guidance and resources; recruits, trains, mentors, evaluates, coaches, and disciplines as needed.
• Assesses, develops and evaluates staffing plans to ensure sufficient resources; explores cross‑training or resource sharing.
• Manages revenues and expenses; collaborates on annual capital and operating budgets to improve volume, revenue and margin.
• Leads quality improvement projects to enhance safe, quality care and patient outcomes; analyzes data to drive service improvements.
• Identifies opportunities to improve safety, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness, and patient-centeredness in collaboration with leadership.

Job description

Position Summary

Responsible for managing the daily clinical operations, administrative functions, and financial activities of assigned clinical service areas. Provides leadership and direction in planning, change and conflict management. Collaborates with physicians and other clinical leaders to ensure safe, quality healthcare. Models professionalism and expert practice to influence the interprofessional team in clinical knowledge skills, abilities, and judgement and mentor the team to strive for excellence.

• Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance and resources. Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards. Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
• Assesses, develops, implements and continually evaluates staffing plan assuring sufficient and appropriate resources are available. Identifies opportunities for alternative staffing such as cross‑training staff, and sharing resources, to meet the demand. Evaluates the quality and effectiveness of clinical practice on the units, analyzing appropriate internal and external data and information to identify opportunities in collaboration with Medical Staff, CNO, Nursing Leadership, and staff for improving services and patient outcomes.
• Leads, mentors, assist, consult with clinical team utilizing critical thinking and judgement. Remains competent in skills present in areas of services. Responsible for managing the revenues and expenses. Proactively evaluates, plans and implements new or revised clinical services to enhance the volume, revenue and margin. Collaborates with the CNO, Department Chief and Deputy Chief Medical Officer leadership in developing annual capital and operating budgets.
• Leads the assessment, implementation, and evaluation of team‑based quality improvement projects, utilizing results to improve safe, quality care and patient outcomes.
• Identifies opportunities to improve identified issues related to safety, effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, timeliness, and patient‑centeredness. In collaboration with the CNO, medical staff leadership and other departmental