Managing Optometrist, Eye Care Services

Eyes; Martinez (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Martinez, California is seeking an experienced optometrist leader to manage the Optometry department and staff, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver high-quality eye care services for members.

The role emphasizes coordinating with physicians and service area leaders to implement strategic plans, monitor performance, and drive improvements in patient access and care quality. Strong leadership and clinical expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Optometry degree required.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience as an Optometrist.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum two (2) years of customer service experience.
• Optometrist License with TPA Certification (California) required at hire.

Responsibilities

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.
• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement.
• Conducts budgeting and financial planning by ensuring accountability for meeting financial revenue and expense targets within team or department.
• Ensures standardized care delivery by managing large/complex work streams and establishing strategic partnerships with physicians/providers and service area leaders.
• Manages operations to support patient care by driving implementation of action items and ensuring timelines and budgets are met.
• Ensures member service and quality by guiding member satisfaction measurement and continuous quality improvements.

Skills

Doctor of Optometry

Leadership

Customer Service

Optometrist License

TPA Certification (California)

Education

Doctor of Optometry degree

Job description

Job Summary

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for managing optometrists and optometry staff and monitoring quality of service and utilization standards; ensuring staff compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, established departmental and organizational policies and procedures, licensure requirements, professional work standards, and competency within eye care techniques, practices, and equipment; managing schedule design and utilization of appointments to ensure appropriate access of care; providing direct optometry care and services or specialized testing and therapy to members (e.g., visual examinations, including for pathology, diagnosis of abnormal visual, ocular, and/or systematic conditions); providing treatment of the visual system within the scope of optometric licensure, including writing prescriptions for ophthalmic spectacles, contact lenses, orthoptics, and non-optical aids; prescribing pharmaceuticals and performing certain procedures, as allowed by state law; managing the activities of the optometry department across small to medium service area(s); coordinating and maintaining relationships with optometry, ophthalmology, and management; and coordinating with service area leaders to ensure that a strategic service delivery plan exists for Optometry that meets the needs of the service area.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; works closely with employees to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; develops and provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Leads, adapts, implements, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices, processes, and industry trends. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members, engages, motivates, and promotes collaboration within and across teams. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance, and scope; encourages development and consideration of options in decision making.
• Manages designated work unit or team by translating business plans into tactical action items; oversees the completion of work assignments and identifies opportunities for improvement; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts; builds accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; determines and ensures processes and methodologies are implemented; resolves escalated issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Fosters the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and addresses improvement opportunities; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
• Conducts budgeting and financial planning by: ensuring accountability for meeting financial revenue and expense targets are met within team or department and taking corrective action if off-course; implementing and supporting policies, procedures, and monitors that achieve accountability for cash control, product inventory, and service equipment; monitoring, identifying, and evaluating the financial performance of optometry and/or the optical stores in an assigned area; and fostering a cost-conscious culture.
• Ensures standardized care delivery by: managing large and/or complex work streams and evaluating performance to implement strategic initiatives; establishing strategic partnerships with physicians/providers and subject matter experts and service area leaders; utilizing data and analysis to ensure strategic alignment while developing and implementing plans; proactively monitoring daily operational activities involving complex patient care management; managing complex multidisciplinary clinical team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; implementing emergency preparedness programs; assuring the teams emergency preparedness and that staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and leading project teams, initiatives and monitoring implementation and performance on daily operations and new initiatives to meet business line objectives.
• Manages operations to support patient care by: driving implementation of action items and supporting compliance with timelines and financial commitments; analyzing standardized and ad hoc data reporting to meet specific business objectives, implementing workflows and strategies and assuming accountability for team(s) department performance targets; interpreting data and taking action and translating reports into short-term operational initiatives to meet department performance goals; managing human resources related to selection, recruitment, orientation, education, disciplinary procedures, and training and development, ensuring training needs are being met; responding to union requests for information or complex grievances and escalating and/or resolving as needed and establishing labor management partnerships (LMPs) and labor relations; designing survey readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and developing procedures for preparing audit documentation, information, and reports; and assisting in the development and management of their departments budget, expenditures, and payroll with input from a higher-level leader, and identifying and developing plans to mitigate budget variances.
• Ensures member service and quality by: ensuring member satisfaction by managing the provision of a high level of quality of patient service and care; guiding team measurement efforts of member satisfaction with clinical and/or optical services, and utilizing the resulting feedback to drive improvements within the organization; managing the maintenance of the quality of care provided to members through an ongoing quality assurance program; leading others in conducting quality assurance for clinical and/or retail departments; and managing team for ensuring the resolution of member complaints, concerns, and requests for information, including service recovery and refunds if applicable.
• Manages improvements to operations and technology processes by: leading and implementing the development of goals and priorities for strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; applying a structured approach for identifying root causes and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes in response to complex barriers and/or issues; and ensuring performance metrics used to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects are tied to strategic department and organizational initiatives.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Constructive Feedback
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Leadership
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Team Building
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Compliance Management
• Medical Terminology
• Optical Knowledge
• Optometric Knowledge
• Union Work Environment
• Business Acumen
• Business Process Improvement
• Change Management
• Clinical Quality Expertise
• Computer Literacy
• Confidentiality
• Conflict Resolution
• Corporate Partnerships
• Employee/Labor Relations
• Financial Analysis
• Health Care Compliance
• Health Care Operations
• Interpersonal Skills
• Legal And Regulatory Requirements
• Maintain Files and Records
• Marketing
• Member Service
• Onboarding
• Position Requirements
• Presentation Skills
• Recruitment and Hiring
• Service Focus
• Stakeholder Management
• Talent Management
• Talent Management Strategy
• Workforce Planning
• Written Communication

Minimum Qualifications

• Doctor of Optometry degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience as an Optometrist.
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Minimum two (2) years of customer service experience.

• Optometrist License with TPA Certification (California) required at hire

Preferred Qualifications

• Drug Enforcement Administration Registration.
• Two (2) years of experience as an Optometrist managing other optometrists

Primary Location

California,Martinez,Martinez Cerritos Medical Offices

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Shift

Day

Workdays

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start

08:00 AM

Working Hours End

05:00 PM

Job Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

Employee Status

Regular

Worker Location

Onsite

Employee Group/Union Affiliation

NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level

Manager with Direct Reports

Department

Martinez Hacienda Med Offices - Optometry-Optometrist - 0206

Pay Range

$260000 - $300300 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel

No Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.