Senior Medical Director, Kidney Services, System
- Employer
- Intermountain Health
- Location
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Posted Date
- Jan 4, 2025
- Reference
- R122544-1
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- Specialty
- Chiefs / Directors / Dept. Heads
- Position Type
- Permanent
Job Details
The Kidney Services Senior Medical Director (SMD) is an enterprise role and is the senior most physician leader within Kidney Services (IKS), a service line within Clinical Shared Services, reporting to a regional chief medical officer. This position works with the Assistant Vice President (AVP) of Kidney Services, as a dyad partnership in leading all functions of Kidney Services. In collaboration with the AVP, this position is responsible for the creation and execution of IKS' strategic vision, initiatives, and goals to drive better kidney health outcomes and improve enterprise value-based performance. The SMD directs and leads all physician services within Nephrology including physician recruitment, performance management, individual physician development, physician engagement, patient satisfaction, and alignment of services with IKS' strategy working closely with Medical Group leadership. As the senior physician leader of IKS, this position works closely with other IKS leaders to establish appropriate care standards and ensure all operations and care provided is compliant with regulatory standards, evidence-based care, and IKS' standards
Essential Functions
- Lead an innovative, progressive care model for Kidney Services that is equitable, value-driven and traverses the continuum of patient experience for kidney disease. This work will include service delivery of guideline directed medical therapy and utilizing advanced predictive analytic tools to drive change in CKD and ESKD patient care.
- Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders.
- Cultivate an atmosphere of teamwork and mutual respect among all Intermountain providers, staff and administration, and other affiliated physicians.
- Participates in the strategic planning process for Kidney Services, ensuring that annual goals and key performance metrics are established.
- Effectively align, allocate, and deploy resources to achieve plans, initiatives, and goals.
- Collaborate with national and international partners and organizations to support and enhance Intermountain's reputation and influence, and to augment and refine guidelines and initiatives in CKD, ESKD, early access to kidney transplant and dialysis.
- Create, review, and ensure policies, procedures, and guidelines meet regulatory and safety compliance in kidney services and activities.
- Provide input regarding staffing and assist with the selection and onboarding of caregivers.
- Provide clinical services including diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of conditions requiring medical care including consultation with other providers as requested.
Skills
- Nephrology
- Financial Acumen
- Communication/Collaborative
- People Management Leadership
- Regulatory Understanding
- Strategy
- Business Development
- Accountability
Minimum Qualifications
- Board certified nephrologist
- Functioned as a physician leader
- Demonstrated ability to implement and drive quality standards
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of leadership experience, multi-site and multi-practice
- Understanding of industry to include dialysis, kidney disease, and value-based care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement effective strategies
Physical Requirements
- Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
- Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
- See and read computer monitors and documents.
Physical Requirements:
Location:
Key Bank Tower
Work City:
Salt Lake City
Work State:
Utah
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
24
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$7.25 - $999.99
We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion .
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
All positions subject to close without notice.
Company
As the largest nonprofit health system in the Mountain West, Intermountain Health is dedicated to creating healthier communities and helping our patients and physicians thrive.
It’s time to think of health in a whole new way, and by partnering with our patients and communities, providing expert care closer to home, and making great health more affordable, we can help more people get and stay well. We proudly invest back into improving the care we deliver, and our pioneering research is making healthcare more personalized, effective, and affordable.
Serving patients and communities throughout the Mountain West, primarily in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming, Intermountain includes 34 hospitals, 400+ clinics, a medical group, affiliate networks, homecare, telehealth, health insurance plans, and other services - along with wholly owned subsidiaries including Select Health, Castell, Tellica Imaging, and Classic Air Medical.
Our Caregiver Promise: Together, for the healthiest lives
We celebrate the different perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and identities our physicians bring to their work every day at Intermountain. Across all areas of our integrated health system, we proudly share best practices, knowledge, and techniques to better serve our patients, communities, and each other.
Here, you’ll work alongside collaborative and curious minds who will support you, encourage you, inspire you, advocate for you, and challenge you to be your very best.
Our Values
Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.
Our action-oriented values, inspired and shaped by our own physicians and caregivers, speak to what it means to be part of Intermountain.
- We are leaders in clinical excellence, delivering safe, best-in-quality care
- We believe in what we do, living our mission every day
- We serve with empathy, caring for each caregiver, patient, and member with compassion and respect
- We are partners in health, collaborating to keep people well
- We do the right thing, learning and acting with purpose
- We are better together, building community through teamwork and belonging
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