Clinical Vice President, Transplant Service Line & Director, Transplant Institute - Jefferson Health

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The Clinical & Administrative Dyad Partnership

In an effort to optimize service delivery, further streamline processes, ensure for consistent quality, bring greater efficiencies, and drive growth and financial profitability across the enterprise, Jefferson Health recently introduced a new service line structure, comprised of 6 enterprise service lines, each co-led by an Administrative Leader and a Clinical Leader dyad: Oncology, Neuroscience, Heart & Vascular, MSK, Solid Organ Transplant, and OBGYN.

While changes to the operational structure will help advance Jefferson's mission of becoming a fully integrated academic health system, 'One Jefferson' will require leaders who understand the competitive advantages that come with integration and who can build the kinds of interdependent academic-clinical connections inherent to value-based patient-centered care, destination educational programs, and paradigm shifting clinical research offerings.

Successful integrated and shared leadership roles will be critical in working cohesively and collaboratively across a matrixed organization to driving accountability and progress tostrengthen and expand clinical and education programs in concert with clinical partners across the enterprise.

With the assistance of newly established Health System Councils, cross-disciplinary collaborative forums created to refine the operational approach taken, the Transplant Clinical and Administrative leadership dyad will share responsibility for driving the following transformational and operational areas:

Operational Efficiency, Includingidentifying cost reduction opportunities across the enterprise, as well as redundant service areas to be consolidated.

Clinical Quality, leading efforts to standardized care across the enterprise, thereby improving the patient experience and overall patient outcomes;

Growth & Transformationincluding initiatives to elevate Jefferson's reputation, as well as grow market share and patient revenue

• Including oversight of provider workforce planning and clinical coverage, as well as provider retention through increased engagement and work satisfaction initiatives.

Clinical Leader's Primary Areas of Responsibility & Specific Duties

The following goals and objectives have been identified as priorities for the Clinical Leader and are listed below in no particular order:

• Work with clinical leadership to develop a compelling vision and strategic business plan to advance and support the service line's continued evolution across the Jefferson enterprise.

• Redesign care delivery model with new workflows focused on efficiencies of value-based care engagement that lend to increased patient satisfaction and throughput, as well as delivery of higher quality care to patients at lower costs.

• Improve overall patient outcomes by reducing clinical variations and in creating clinical effectiveness, while maintaining essential patient quality standards. Set expectations for improved clinical outcomes and engage providers around process and steps to achieve those outcomes. Identify areas in need of greater quality and safety measures; establish standardized metrics and necessary performance goals.

• Hold leadership accountable for meeting quality measures and regulatory standards for their respective markets and clinical teams. Work with Enterprise Leadership to ensure Service Line's performance meets national, regional, and local publicly-reported quality measures across the enterprise.

• Optimize service delivery and patient mix, while ensuring consistent quality of care, by achieving enterprise-wide harmonization of standardized care across all sites.

• Facilitate academic and scientific advancement, by:

  • Playing a pivotal role in expanding education programs in concert with clinical partners across Jefferson Health's regions.

  • Fostering clinical innovation across the enterprise.

  • Growing extramurally-funded clinical research. As applicable, coordinate the clinical trial opportunities for patients across Jefferson Health.

• Initiate and deepen philanthropic relationships and partnerships with healthcare provider affiliates. Pursue new business opportunities, e.g., joint ventures as appropriate.

Desired Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Inclusive Collaborator/Connector

• A Clinical Leader capable of fostering collaboration and inclusiveness, vertically and horizontally, across a large, matrixed health system. A leader who understands how inclusive teams drive collaboration. Leads decision-making and problem-solving processes that respectfully integrate diverse perspectives and encourage deep dialogue.

• A Clinical Leader who displays high emotional intelligence by their ability to ask questions, listen, and incorporate ideas from all levels of the organization.

• A Clinical Leaderwho is a highly-approachable leader and empathetic listener capable of galvanizing a multi-faceted academic department with diverse opinions and ideas towards a transformational and shared vision for Jefferson Transplant.

Relationship Builder

• Leader who understands the interests, motivations, and key priorities of the constituencies they serve; excels at building relationships with key stakeholders and is able to leverageconnections to influence and coalesce support around "win-win" relationships.

• Arelationship-basedleader for the Department, who can entrust and empower faculty and staff to collaborate in solving problems, ultimately making them accountable for executing the solutions. A Clinical Leader capable of bringing a relational context to the Department that promotes creativity, growth, and initiative in developing the Department's future leaders.

Change Driver

Innovation Leading Change: Initiates, influences and drives organizational changes and business transformation.

• Have a history of driving success: takes action, initiates activity and seizes opportunities for new business; pursues goals with persistence and achieves outstanding results.

• Have an enterprising mindset and a demonstrated commitment to innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors.

• Have a history of supporting collaborative academic-clinical partnerships, such as program development.

• Have a successful record of recruitment and retention of a diverse and outstanding faculty and staff.

• Have demonstrated commitment to supporting the development and mentorship of faculty and students, and promoting an environment of inclusivity and belonging.

• Have an evident passion for engaging with and increasing access to underserved urban communities and positively influencing health outcomes. Have an inherent and felt responsibility for understanding and responding to the health needs of surrounding communities.

• Have a record of consistently achieving quality outcomes at the highest levels of the profession.

• Have experience leading and developing a clinical research portfolio and infrastructure.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 5 years of leadership experience in clinical operations, ideally gained with a large healthcare system.

• A career trajectory, with increasing levels of administrative responsibilities that has (ideally) culminated in serving as a surgical director in transplantation.

• A strong record of teaching and supporting academic programs for medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as experience with cultivating academic-clinical partnerships and training programs.

• Experiencefacilitating and promoting clinical research, with a working understanding of the supporting infrastructure and nuances of clinical research, e.g. the clinical trial process and phrases

• Demonstrated commitment to championing excellence in clinical quality, supported by patient satisfaction scores expected of a high-performing clinician at a leading academic center.

• An MD/DO or equivalent international degree, be Board certified in Surgery, have completed a fellowship training program at an ASTS-certified transplant surgery training program, and be eligible for a Pennsylvania Medical License.

• Academic accomplishments which merit appointment at the rank of associate or full professor at Sidney Kimmel Medical College.

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion, and to health equity.

• Experience with the operational and financial management of administering a department, including prior budget management responsibility, strategic planning, and resource management.

Procedure for Candidacy

Applicants should submit a single PDF containing a statement of interest and complete CV to: Sarah McRea, Director of Executive and Faculty Recruitment

Sarah.McRea@jefferson.edu

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.