Clinical Director – Advanced Practice Provider, Hospitalist Team

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Exceptional care, simply delivered, is what sets Community Health Network apart and what makes us a leading not-for-profit, provider-led, multi-specialty healthcare destination in central Indiana. We are seeking an Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Director to join one of the nation’s most integrated healthcare systems, with over 1,600 providers in Indianapolis, IN. With an appealing blend of big-city amenities, cosmopolitan style, and communities which boast top notch school systems, the Indianapolis area is consistently ranked nationally among the best places to live.

Highlights

Community Physician Network is seeking a Clinical Director (0.2 FTE) for our Advanced Practice Provider Hospitalist team. This leadership role oversees four APP Leads and provides clinical and operational guidance in collaboration with department medical directors (DMDs), the Physician Executive of the Product Line, and the nurse/practice manager. The Clinical Director serves as a conduit for communication and leadership across all practice sites, driving change, fostering collaboration, and translating strategic goals into actionable steps. This role influences physicians, APPs, and staff to achieve targeted outcomes and ensure high-quality patient care. 

·         Demonstrating and leading core organizational values is an ongoing expectation and prerequisite.

·         Seeks out, initiates, supports and manages needed change even in the face of opposition and engages others in change.

·         Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills, invites input and acts on it when appropriate.

·         Discourages us/them thinking.

·         Provides timely information to aid performance in one’s job.  Ability to avoid reactive decisions and actions.

·         Makes decisions in best interests of larger group enterprise and understands how actions/decisions in one area affect the performance of others.

·         Develops synergies between clinical, service and business performance and helps build positive relationships between teams to integrate business and clinical cultures.  Discourages us/them thinking.

·         In all functions and responsibilities, provide leadership through highly effective communication, partnerships, influencing, and collaborative efforts (i.e. non-authorative) with or between physicians and APPs, department medical director, practice administrative manager and staff.

·         Provide informal performance feedback, coaching and mentoring to APPs. Provide performance feedback to the business unit and/or DMD to help identify and resolve issues.

·         In partnership with administrative practice managers and directors, work to identify and facilitate resolution of clinical/practice issues and make decisions affecting practice(s).

·         Positively influence physicians, APPs and staff to react quickly and effectively to changing market influences and need to provide high-level services from the business unit.

·         Help facilitate with administration, regular meetings of the business unit and facilitate discussion and achievement of lead indicators and initiatives to drive success in all areas  of the operating unit including operating margin, quality/safety, access, patient/customer service, referral needs and patterns, visits, production, access, efficiency, marketing/promotion and other issues.

·         Partner to implement initiatives within the business unit and help identify additional clinical needs of population served.

·         Participate in provider recruitment and selection as needed.

·         Develop and implement a robust standardized onboarding.

·         In collaboration with the administrative practice manager may create procedures and arrangements in the business unit.

·         Attend regular practice site(s) meetings with leadership and staff.

·         Attend quarterly joint medical director meetings and other meetings as identified.

·         Communicates ongoing quality reviews and variation reduction.

·         Other responsibilities and duties as needed or assigned.

·         Operates all areas of responsibility with strong business ethics and integrity.  Embrace, lives out, and promotes network values – PRIIDE.

Licensure & Certifications

·         Educational background consistent with requirements for licensure and certification within the state of Indiana

·         Certification in addiction must be obtained within one year of assuming the role.

About Us

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Community Health Network has been deeply committed to the communities it serves since opening its first hospital, Community Hospital East, in 1956. Now with more than 16,000 caregivers and 200 sites of care, Community Health Network puts patients first while offering a full continuum of healthcare services, world-class innovations and a new focus on population health management. We are guided by a simple mission: “Deeply committed to the communities we serve, we enhance health and well-being.� Our organization’s values are represented by the acronym PRIIDE: Patients First, Relationships, Integrity, Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence. These values drive the work we do every day and the attitude we bring to every task.

For further details contact:
Patrick Bondi, Provider Recruiter
Email: PBondi@ecommunity.com