Department Administrator- Behavioral Health (Medical Center)

Department Administrator

At Houston Methodist, the Department Administrator position is the administrative leader and senior management consultant to the Department Chair. Primary responsibilities for this position are to generate, manage, and interpret strategic information, provide financial management and accountability for all Department resources, and to provide administrative infrastructure for providers, faculty, and staff. The Department Administrator position has oversight that covers each of the Department's primary missions of patient care, academic, and research. This position is responsible for all administrative operations of the Department, including finance, research, and administration. Additionally, the Department Administrator position provides direction to improve practice services to ensure an exceptional patient experience for our patients.

The Department Administrator position responsibilities include overseeing the activities of the department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence and efficiency to accomplish strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position is accountable for employee engagement, adequate staffing levels, budget development and compliance, staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work related performance, and developing and implementing policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also ensures training, monitoring and operations initiatives are implemented which secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation / regulatory / government regulations.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business / job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.