Associate Director, Clinical Operations - Ambulatory Care Center - Medicine

Associate Director, Clinical Operations - Ambulatory Care Center - Medicine

Grow your career at Cedars-Sinai! At Cedars-Sinai, we're motivated by a collective spirit of innovation and the challenge to continuously improve. Above all, we share a real passion for helping others. Day after day, from department to department, our people give their all to create a community unlike any other. This is just one of the many reasons U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America's Best Hospitalsand now we invite you to join us and make a difference every single day in service of this outstanding work excellence and innovation in patient care, research, and community service. From working with a team of dedicated professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you'll have great resources to do something incrediblefor yourself, and for others.

What you will be doing in this role?

The Associate Director, Clinical Operations (Ambulatory Care Center) is responsible for organizing, directing and oversight of daily operations. Responsible for management of operational programs and services, financial oversight and staff management. Assumes fiscal responsibility through preparation of operational, capital and academic budgets for respective departments. Serves as liaison with medical staff, ancillary departments and other personnel to ensure patient advocacy. Guides and precepts nursing staff in the provision of nursing care / practice consistent with nursing standards. Promotes the maximum growth and development of each employee, supports research and participates in strategic planning, both long and short-term departmental goals.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities :

• Promotes departmental focus by establishing goals consistent with organizational practice.
• Collaborates and coordinates interdepartmental problem solving which supports and enhances operational flow and department efficiency.
• Develops business and operation plans for the departments and for specific programs by preparing, monitoring and controlling budget and ensuring conformity with established budgetary goals.
• Manage monthly reports to explain variances and make recommendations for corrective action, as needed.
• Reviews and approve departmental expenditures for appropriateness and compliance within budget; reduces expenses and generates increased revenue.
• Creates policies and procedures and implement performance improvement initiatives and set up data collection processes and reporting systems as necessary.
• Responsible for assuring staff competency for implementation regarding the provision of age related patient care. Provides appropriate assessments, interventions and evaluations of patients with consideration of developmental milestones in the adolescent, adult and geriatric patient population.

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