Practice Administrator II

TCH Medical Center; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TCH Medical Center seeks a Practice Administrator II for its Neurosurgery Clinic to organize, staff, and direct clinical activities in collaboration with physician leaders.

The role includes planning, performance management, coaching, budgeting, and coordinating with Baylor College of Medicine on research and academic pursuits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare or related field required.
• Master's degree in business, healthcare or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of quality, cost-effective patient care and coordinate service-based performance improvement.
• Plan and manage budgets for professional and technical revenue and report changes.
• Monitor budget-sensitive service models and align staffing and productivity with strategic needs.
• Coordinate cross-functional planning across patient care, research, and academics reviews.
• Support program development, faculty recruitment process, credentialing, and faculty development.
• Provide structured feedback and supervise staff within the section per policy.
• Participate in hospital system and academic projects as appropriate.

Skills

Performance improvement

Coaching

Staffing

Budgeting

Policies and procedures

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/healthcare or related field

Master's degree in business/healthcare or related field (preferred)

Job description

We’re looking for a Practice Administrator II for our Neurosurgery Clinic, someone who’s ready to grow with our company. In this position you will plan, organize, staff, and direct activities in the Physician Service Organization's clinical sections in collaboration with designated physician leader(s). Activities include planning and performance management, performance improvement, coaching, staffing, budgeting, policies and procedures, and collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine on the section's research and academic pursuits.

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Job Duties & Responsibilities:

• Quality care: Ensures delivery of quality, cost effective patient care within family-centered care environment by coordinating and participating in service-based and cross-functional performance improvement activity that improves patient access/flow, patient/family satisfaction, referring physician satisfaction, research and clinical outcomes, or employee acquisition, satisfaction, and/or retention. Monitors the resolution and escalation of patient/family issues and coordinates special service recovery efforts.
• Revenue monitoring: Budgets for and plans to realize expected levels of professional fee and technical revenue; accounts for and routinely reports on status and changes in revenue; and generates action plans to address financial issues.
• Expense monitoring: Monitors operation of a budget-sensitive service model, including departmental staffing requirements and productivity levels by establishing, and/or contracting for related service performance from other departments (OR, ICU, Cardiology, HR, Contracting, etc.); adapts model based on strategic considerations and short-term fluctuations in the operating environment.
• Coordination of resources across 3-part mission: Coordinates service and departmental planning and process improvement across patient care, research and academics reviews proposed project initiatives strategic relevance and resource requirements and facilitates departmental prioritization; partners cross-functionally with leaders across sections to raise and resolve issues.
• Service Support: Provides support for new program development, faculty recruitment process, credentialing process, and faculty development.
• Human Resources management: Provides structured feedback for each staff member through yearly development plans and informal and/or formal follow-up at least twice a year. Handles performance issues of staff within the section as per policy.
• System wide involvement: Participants in other various hospital system and academic projects as appropriate.
  

Skills & Requirements

• Required bachelor's Degree Education Details Business, healthcare or related field
• Preferred master's degree in business, health care or related field
• Required 3 years Healthcare operations experience
  and
  2 years Supervisory experience OR
• Completion of an ACHE Postgraduate Administrative Fellowship and One (1) year supervisory experience