Manager - Health Equity

STANFORD HEALTHCARE LIMITED; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Palo Alto seeks a Chief Medical Officer to oversee strategic health equity initiatives. The role requires collaboration with various teams to implement patient-centered strategies and improve healthcare access and quality. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership and project management skills, along with experience in navigating complex organizations. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Five years of extensive related work experience.
• A minimum of three years of managerial level experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee development and evaluation of health equity strategic plan.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and ensure accountability.
• Manage health equity program design and structure.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Collaboration

Education

Master degree in work related field

Job description

1.0 FTE Full time Day - 08 Hour R2546825 Hybrid 108710003 Chief Med Officer Business & Administration PALO ALTO, 300 Pasteur Dr, California

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

Stanford Health Care is seeking a leader to oversee large-scale strategic and cross-functional improvement programs in health equity. This role involves collaboration with the Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO), clinical and operational leaders, and multidisciplinary teams to drive patient-centered health equity strategies, including coordinating actionable initiatives, supporting workgroups on health equity measurement and social determinants of health (SDOH), establishing a multicultural workgroup, inventorying health equity efforts and quality improvement action plans. The position will also monitor and evaluate data-driven strategies to reduce disparities in access, quality of care, and/or clinical outcomes focuses with key service lines, while engaging with employee resource groups, patient advisory councils, and community groups. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in service leader culture, navigation of matrixed organizations, strategic and program leadership, project management, and the ability to foster relationships across diverse internal and external stakeholders.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What You Will Do

• Provides oversight of the development, implementation, and evaluation of the strategic plan for health equity across the organization, in alignment with the strategic plan and operation plan for Stanford Health Care & Stanford Medicine
• Leads multi-disciplinary teams and engenders input, buy-in, and accountability from individuals that work in clinical, operational, patient and family voice areas
• Maintains a focus on internal talent management and retention to drive succession planning and future workforce planning, ensuring consistency of leadership’s ability to progress towards strategic goals across the organization
• Partner with Operations Manager(s) to identify and develop the leadership needs and internal capacity of the department and facilitate strategic changes in project scope or assignment across the team.
• Serves as the liaison to and partners with management guidance teams on access, quality of care, patient experience, and clinical and health outcomes.
• Creates a team culture rooted in psychological safety, respect, and accountability
• Prioritizes objectives and key results with excellent project management to set goals, communicate to broad audiences, develop timelines, and measure impact
• Manages, assesses, and documents project scope and program utilizing standard improvement tools and templates.
• Manages and oversees health equity program design and structure for department's key initiatives and projects within assigned leadership division
• Develops strategic input for local leadership team regarding business objectives of both current and future projects related to health equity objectives
• Works with various departments and physician groups, develops relationships with key stakeholders, and understands their departmental workflows.
• Prepares and maintains accurate, coherent, timely and auditable project records and cost estimates, as applicable, within department guidelines.
• Provides leadership, coordination and support to all team members.
  
  

Education Qualifications

• Master degree in work related field from an accredited college required
  
  

Experience Qualifications

• Five years of broad extensive related work experience and progressively responsible in administrative and/or managerial positions.
• A minimum of three years of managerial level experience is preferred.
  
  

These Principles Apply To ALL Employees

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $68.46 - $90.70 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.