Director, Clinic Operations
Optum
Date: 22 hours ago
City: Redlands, CA
Salary:
$106,800
-
$194,200
per year
Contract type: Full time

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Responsibilities
The Director, Clinic Operations is accountable for overseeing the management of multiple health centers (Sites) in a designated community (Pod). Responsibilities include:
Primary Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
Responsibilities
The Director, Clinic Operations is accountable for overseeing the management of multiple health centers (Sites) in a designated community (Pod). Responsibilities include:
- Strategic, financial and operations management
- Strategic growth and patient retention
- Patient care coordination, patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes
- Teammate management
- Risk management, audit, and compliance
Primary Responsibilities
- Consistently exhibits behavior and communication skills that demonstrate Optum's commitment to superior customer service, including quality, care and concern with each and every internal and external customer
- Develops, implements, monitors, and ensures adherence to policies and procedures for Optum and its Group Model sites and pod based/regionally based programs
- Implements and manages budgets for all accountable departments, functions, and sites within the pod. Research and monitors budget variations
- Develops and executes market growth strategies for accountable sites within the pod
- Assists the Senior Director, Group Operations in the development, coordination and implementation of the regional budget, business plans and operational activities including clinician/ops review to drive clinical and financial performance
- Leads special projects and initiatives specific to the Community or across Communities
- Implements plans to continually enhance services provided by accountable departments and functions
- Evaluates opportunities, makes recommendations, and oversees expansion projects within the pod and in surrounding communities
- Directs and coordinates community group operations activities within the pod
- Manages relevant hospital partnerships (including conducting JOCs) and maintains/grows specialist networks
- Works closely with central departments to ensure that issues impacting the region that involve central departments are resolved effectively and timely
- Identifies opportunities for improvement within the Group Model Sites and brings forward proposals to the RAT incorporating solutions
- Collaborates with the physician leadership of the Group Model to garner support for operational initiatives and obtains feedback on what initiatives will be most successful and works closely to implement and monitor programs
- Manages direct reports to ensure that they are meeting performance expectations, mentor, coach and counsel as necessary
- Provides guidance in professional development activities and goals
- Assists, facilitates, and leads committees, teams, and projects at the direction of the Senior Director, Group Operations
- Works to promote teamwork, collaboration, implementation of best practices across all communities within the region
- Collaborates with colleagues in other regions to improve performance and coordinates activities to ensure goals of Optum are met
- Develops, implements, and measures adherence to policies and procedures
- Uses, protects, and discloses Optum patients protected health information (PHI) only in accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards
- Performs additional duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of leadership experience
- 5+ years of management experience
- Driver’s License and access to a reliable transportation
- Experience in Medicare Advantage risk adjustment programs
- Experience leading teams to develop analytics and data analysis critical to the success of the organization
- Experience conducting root cause analysis and identifying optimum solutions
- Intermediate level of experience with Microsoft Suite
- Proven ability to effectively direct preparation of various financial analysis and data mining activities
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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