Physician - Division Chief, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Grand Rapids, MI

The Corewell Health West Medical Group in Grand Rapids, Michigan offers an excellent opportunity for a full-time board certified Psychiatrist to lead in the role of Division Chief. Reporting to the system behavioral health department chief vice president, the division chief leads all sections within the adult division. This leader will guide teams in our ambulatory, hospital-based, and telepsychiatry practices.

As division chief, you would maintain a clinical practice and have dedicated time to lead your team while partnering with the director of operations on division strategy. The ideal candidate has 3 to 5+ years of experience and has practiced within a sizeable heath system.

This important position leads the following sections within the division:

• Psychiatry (Physicians & Advanced Practice Providers, inclusive of the Consult Liaison team)
• Psychology
• Psychotherapy
• Addiction

Qualifications: MD/DO, BC/BE Psychiatry, 3-5+ years of leadership experience preferred, Michigan Medical License (ability to obtain)

Corewell Health West Medical Group

The Corewell Health West Medical Group is part of a not-for-profit health system serving 13 counties in West Michigan. Corewell Health West is a region of Corewell Health, formerly the BHSH System (Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health) that provides care and coverage with an exceptional team of 60,000+ dedicated people-including more than 11,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 15,000 nurses providing care and services in 22 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and several post-acute facilities-and Priority Health, a provider-sponsored health plan serving over 1.2 million members. Through experience and collaboration, we are reimagining a better, more equitable model of health and wellness.

Essential Functions

• In collaboration with Department Chief and Academic Chair, responsible and accountability for the following:
  Leadership
  Demonstrate personal character
  Uphold, by example and by coaching, the Code of Excellence of the Spectrum Health Medical Group
  Act at all times in a fiduciary role for the Medical Group, the System, and on behalf of our patients
  Clinical performance
  Demonstrate a high level of skill, expertise and experience in patient care processes.
  Have and use a broad and deep knowledge base that is contemporary with the latest medical scientific evidence.
  Lead by example in the development of an evidence-based, multidisciplinary care approach.
  Sets the direction for the Division
  Communicate a clear vision
  Demonstrate an understanding of community and patient needs and expectations
  Align his/her performance and enlists the commitment and performance of others to attain the envisioned future state
  Mobilize individual commitment
  Build collaborative relationships through support and encouragement, rather than through criticism
  Demonstrate willingness and ability to share power and control
  Listens
  Demonstrate willingness and ability to involve others and elicit participation
  Empower and engages colleagues and associates, and strengthens them by sharing power and information
  Create opportunities for people to contribute their strongest personal talents to the team effort
  Coach, mentor, and educate other physicians, residents, fellows, nurses and staff towards the effective implementation of the means to reach the targets and goals of the Division/program
  Identify clear expectations for performance and hold physician accountable for their actions
  Consistently provide open feedback, with clear, direct and concise information to support personal performance
  Engender organizational capability
  Build organizational infrastructure by demonstrating formal leadership capable of integrating, resourcing, and orchestrating activities of various project teams
  Align the organization with its strategy
  Fully commit to the long-term strategy of building a valuable organization
  Leverage diversity by resolving conflicts diplomatically and identifying a common ground
  Advocate partnering and collaboration as preferred styles of behavior
  Develop the various strengths in colleagues and associates
  Deploy and develop teams through cross-fertilization of best practices and provision of frequent feedback that helps improve team performance
  Support the design and development of human resources systems, including especially performance management and training and development
  Make change happen as a catalyst and manager of strategic change, especially by using the inputs and ideas of others as stimuli for change
• Growth
  Achieves focused growth of the Division in alignment with the Medical Group strategic plan
  Established & achieves annual volume targets in respect to encounters, wRVUs, and new patient visits, or other growth targets that may be established
  Ensure that barriers to physician and mid-level practitioner and associates' productivity are minimized
  Collaborate with executive leadership to plan, design, develop and implement strategic and annual facilities plans
  Collaborate with executive leadership to plan, design, develop and implement annual marketing plan for the Medical Group
  Ensure leadership of physician recruiting and medical staff development plan for the Division in support of the health care workforce needs of the communities served by the Medical Group
  Strategic Planning and Implementation
  Participate in development of an annually updated Department strategic plan. This plan should describe enhanced program reputation and growth, and unique, innovative approaches to the achievement of superior quality, service, safety and financial outcomes.
  Lead the development of a plan for adequate resources to achieve the short term and long term strategic goals and objectives of the Department/program, including growth and new program development
  Development of research goals and implementation plan including integration with clinical initiatives
  Support, as directed, recognition for the program through the attraction or development of regionally and/or nationally recognized physician clinicians, teachers, researchers and program innovators
• Quality, Safety and Clinical Innovation
  Ensure that the Division meets federal and state regulatory requirements, as well as accreditation standards
  Ensure that the Division meets all payer contract requirements in respect to quality incentives and obligations
  Ensure that the Division evaluates and improves the performance of its professional staff and care teams compared to current standards of care of the community and of the professional societies
  Ensure that the Division develops and sustains a culture of safety, and establishes safety as an system property
  Plan, develop and implement the Division's Annual Plan for Quality, Safety and Clinical Innovation, in support of the Medical Group's Annual Plan
  Lead the implementation of initiatives in evidence-based medicine and the incorporation of the methods of safety science into patient care practices, engaging all staff, especially physicians and nurses
  Development of People
  Develop and implement a Division Annual Plan for physician leadership development
  Contribute to the Professional Standards Committee's annual plan for training and development of the Medical Group's associates
  Implement a formal periodic performance evaluation of the Division's professional staff in alignment with the Medical Groups Professional Standards Committee and the Medical Staff of the appropriate Hospital
  Ensure the participation and guidance of the physician leadership of the Division in the management of performance of the associates
  In collaboration with the Finance Committee of the Board and its subcommittees, ensure equitable annual compensation of the professional staff of the Division in their fulfillment of the clinical, administrative, teaching and research missions
  Collaborate with the Department Chief and Academic Chair in the management of physician performance to ensure individual physician productivity, clinical quality, positive patient perception, appropriate resource utilization, adherence to the group's ethical and legal standards, appropriate relationship with colleagues and staff, and (as appropriate) involvement in teaching and research activities.
• Patient Service and Perception of Care
  Ensure the Division adopts robust measurements of patients' perception of care and services, in alignment with the Medical Group, and that the Division achieves annual performance goals for patients' perception of care
  Finance
  In collaboration with the Board and the executive team, establish the Five Year Forecast, and Annual Plan of financial performance goals of the Division
  Achieve the Five Year Forecast and Annual Plan goals of the Division through expense management and optimum revenue cycle management
  In collaboration with the Finance Committee, ensure optimum management of compliance and risk
• Academic and Faculty Affairs
  If requested by the Academic Chair of the Department,
  Ensures an appropriate clinical learning environment for the training of medical students, residents, or fellows
  Participates in, or supports the participation of the Division's professional staff in, faculty development programs of the Department or the MSU College of Human Medicine

Qualifications

• Required Doctorate

• At least four years experience in a medical group setting, medical administration, with knowledge of medical business practices, organization dynamics and a desire for greater influence in the building of a multi-specialty group practice. Required

• LIC-Physician (MD) - STATE_MI State of Michigan required Or
• LIC-Osteopathic Physician (DO) - STATE_MI State of Michigan required
• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - AHA American Heart Association required Or
• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - ARC American Red Cross required

How Corewell Health cares for you

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals. Learn more here.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv
• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!
• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance, pet insurance
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings
• Eligibility for benefits is determined by employment type and status

Primary Location
SITE - ICC Beltline - 2750 East Beltline - Grand Rapids

Department Name
Outpatient Psychiatry - CHMG West

Employment Type
Full time

Shift
Variable (United States of America)

Weekly Scheduled Hours
40

Hours of Work
7 AM to 5 PM

Days Worked
Monday - Friday

Weekend Frequency
Variable weekends

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