VP Surgical Services

Job Description:

This position leads the operations and sets the vision and strategy for Intermountain Health’s surgical services.

The position has oversight and accountability for operations and performance of surgical services, ensuring compliance with all regulatory and accreditation standards assuring patient safety and high-quality delivery of care and experience.

This position guides the work of surgical services in designing and deploying evidence based best practices and executing desired outcomes across the Intermountain enterprise in collaboration with each region.

This position provides effective and inspiring leadership aligning surgical services with the enterprise’s mission, vision, values and strategies.

This position has oversight of the financial and operational aspects of surgical services ensuring its efficiency and sustainability.

The leader is expected to leverage the integrated healthcare delivery model and clinical shared services construct and engage with physicians and other caregivers to further integrate surgical services into seamless care delivery processes across the care continuum to achieve and sustain improvements in patient outcomes.

Essential Functions

• Leads the operations of surgical services by setting vision and strategy, developing and supporting the implementation of shared goals and monitoring and evaluating outcomes.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships across the enterprise, collaborating effectively to improve safety, quality, and experience.
• Ensures standardization of best practice driving a culture of continuous improvement delivering best-in-class quality and experience outcomes, patient and caregiver safety, access and affordability, and caregiver engagement
• Monitors financial outcomes, performance measures and implements Intermountain strategies to meet desired objectives
• Provides effective and inspiring leadership necessary to achieve a caregiver work environment aligned with our mission, vision and values
• Ensures compliance with all laws, regulations and accreditation requirements for surgical services
• Responsible for all aspects of surgical services operations including the management of equipment, informatics integration, staffing models, budgeting, purchasing, recruitment and retention, financial performance, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify and pursue opportunities for growth, innovation, and improvement in surgical services, such as new technology, techniques, and programs.

Skills

• Surgical services
• Leadership
• Patient safety
• Patient care
• Strategic thinking
• Clinical services
• Communication
• Judgement and decision making
• Financial management
• Complex problem solving

Minimum Qualifications

• A Master's degree or enrollment in a Master's Degree Program with completion within 3 years of starting the position. Degree must be obtained through an accredited institution. Degree is verified.
• Extensive and progressive leadership experience with documented success in an integrated healthcare system, managed care or hospital environment with broad clinical, operational, and regulatory background.
• Experience in a role requiring demonstrated experience in obtaining successful results managing complex issues in highly matrixed organizations.
• Experience in a role requiring demonstrated success in obtaining results in leading change with new initiatives with the ability to discuss areas of disagreement openly and constructively.
• Experience in a role requiring skills related to balancing clinical, regulatory and financial goals and outcomes and collaborating with all levels within an organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with business and program development.
• Experience working with information systems technology.
• Experience in organizing system-wide strategies and initiatives
• Experience in a large and complex Integrated Delivery Network in operational or clinical senior leadership role
• Experience leading system shared services in integrated delivery network

Physical Requirements

• Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
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  Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
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  See and read computer monitors and documents.
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  Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.

With this position, you are eligible to participate in the Annual Pay for Performance (AP4P) Plan. This plan enables Intermountain Health to provide leaders with an additional performance compensation opportunity. The AP4P award opportunities are calculated as a percentage of your base salary. Awards are paid out based on attainment of selected Board-approved goals.

Location:

Vine Street Office Building

Work City:

Murray

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$117.90 - $181.99

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 package here.

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.

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