Senior Medical Director, Sleep Services - Enterprise

Essential Functions

• Direct supervision of Enterprise Sleep Physicians.
• Partner with APP Directors and Operations Director.
• Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, and leaders across regions and affiliated sleep labs.
• Define and establish care models for Sleep patients.
• Oversee the development of care delivery models and enterprise accreditation.
• Assess access, demand, and need for Sleep services, utilizing telemedicine.
• Participate in strategic planning, research, and innovation in Sleep services.
• Serve as a model Sleep physician for Intermountain’s Mission, Vision, and Values.
• Effective implementation of the Intermountain operating mode.

Financial Acumen

• Awareness of hospital operations and financial impacts.
• Metric accountability.

Resource Allocation

• Ensures proper allocation of human resources to ensure quality care is provided cost-effectively.
• Responsible for working with the HR leadership and other leaders to create and maintain a positive work environment that fosters a highly engaged workforce.

Leadership

• Serve as an organization-wide consultant and educator.
• Facilitate the leadership development process for the assigned hospital leadership team, including leadership coaching, succession planning, and support development planning.
• Champion diversity through the development process.

Culture of High Reliability

• Support the highly reliable execution of evidence practices in improving patient experience.

Fundamentals of Care

• Works to ensure that patients and caregivers experience Zero Harm.

Quality

• Support a proactive, comprehensive strategic quality agenda for the system that inspires caregiver engagement, inter-professional collaboration, and the identification and use of evidence-based practice and management among all facilities in the system while differentiating.
• Define and track key performance indicators for quantifying the success of stewardship interventions and outcomes.

Medical Staff

• Proactively educate medical staff.
• Work with medical staff and experienced leadership across facilities to develop an efficient, intellectually rigorous, and engaging structure that encourages physicians' alignment with the system's agenda.
• Provide the leadership necessary to achieve a satisfied and competent employee work environment by establishing a climate for growth and challenge, providing timely performance appraisals, and developing and mentoring management and staff.

Skills

• Leadership and supervision
• Collaboration
• Care model development
• Strategic planning
• Research and innovation support
• Accreditation management
• Telemedicine
• Communication and networking
• Business planning
• Integrity and professionalism

Minimum Qualifications

• MD or DO. Education must be obtained through an ACGME or AOA-accredited institution. Degree will be verified. ABIM, ABMS Sleep Medicine Certification. Active State Medical Licensure, or in the process of obtaining licensure.
• Three years of clinical experience working as a Sleep Physician.
• Three years of experience leading successful improvement in clinical settings.
• Two years of progressive healthcare leadership experience.
• Experience with change management and lead in adapting and implementing new processes or technology that enhance safety.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership of clinicians.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in business, Healthcare Administration, Public health or other related fields (e.g., MPH MHA or like additional degree preferred)
• Trained in improvement science (i.e., Six Sigma, Lean, Project management, Advanced Training Program).
• Experience working in a complex health system (hospitals, ambulatory clinics, post-acute care)