Job Description:

The Senior Medical Director-Sleep Services-Enterprise at Intermountain Health will work with a (dyad/triad) partner to oversee the Sleep Services function. Works collaboratively with all disciplines, specialty care, community care, clinical programs, shared clinical services, and clinically integrated networks. Provides support for developing a culture of high reliability and the measurement of care, identifying opportunities, and executing strategies for performance improvement in the assigned area.
This position provides strategic direction, leadership, and support for an Enterprise-wide Sleep team. The Senior Medical Director-Sleep Services -Enterprise collaborates and communicates with all Sleep providers across the Enterprise. This position partners and collaborates with other leaders in the Sleep Services operating Lane, Medical Group Service Line, and APP Directors to create a professional and positive environment for providers to do their work. This position champions provider growth and development, innovation, and continuous improvement, and it is accountable for the successes of Sleep Services as part of the Clinical Shared Services operating lane. This leader promotes excellence in the fundamentals of extraordinary care by engaging with Sleep Physicians, APPs, and other enterprise teams.

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