Sr Director of Integrated Care
Apply NowCompany: Great Plains Tribal Leaders' Health Board
Location: Rapid City, SD 57701
Description:
Job Summary
This position is responsible and accountable for the continued development of a comprehensive and quality health care service delivery system; the fiduciary and leadership responsibilities for primary and urgent care services at the Oyate Health Center (OHC); development, implementation and evaluation of new programs; and, overseeing the development and results of short-term and long-term strategic plans.
Essential Functions
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
Professional Behavior
Requirements
Proficiency with computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other Internet technologies.
Supervisory Controls
The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines and assists the employee with unusual situations that do not have clear precedents.
The employee plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, the scope of license/certification, or accepted practices in the occupation.
Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to policy and requirements. The methods used in arriving at the end results are not usually reviewed in detail.
Guidelines
Guidelines are available but are not completely applicable to the work or have gaps in specificity.
The employee must use judgment in interpreting and adapting guidelines, such as agency policies, regulations, precedents, accreditation requirements, advanced clinical protocols, and work directions for application to specific cases or problems. The employee analyzes results and recommends changes.
The employee uses initiative and resourcefulness in deviating from traditional methods or researching trends and patterns to develop new methods, criteria, or proposed new policies.
Complexity
The work typically includes varied duties that require many different and unrelated processes and methods, such as those relating to well established aspects of an administrative or professional field. Decisions regarding what needs to be done include the assessment of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting data.
Scope and Effect
The work involves planning, developing, and carrying out vital administrative or scientific programs.
The programs are essential to the missions of the organization or affect large numbers of people on a long-term or continuing basis.
Personal Contacts
The work involves planning, developing, and carrying out vital administrative or scientific programs.
The programs are essential to the missions of the organization or affect large numbers of people on a long-term or continuing basis.
Purpose of Contacts
The purpose is to influence, motivate, interrogate, or control persons or groups. The persons contacted may be fearful, skeptical, uncooperative, or dangerous. Therefore, the employee must be skillful in approaching the individual or group in order to obtain the desired effect, such as gaining compliance with established policies and regulations by persuasion or negotiation, or gaining information by establishing rapport with a suspicious informant.
Physical Demands
The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. The employee must be able to read, write, speak and hear.
Work Environment
The work involves moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions, e.g., working around moving parts, carts, or machines; exposure to contagious diseases or irritant chemicals. Employees may be required to use protective clothing or gear, such as masks, gowns, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields.
Supervisory and Management Responsibility
This is a department head with final responsibility and authority for the accomplishment of objectives, utilization of resources, and personnel administration decisions within a major jurisdictional subdivision. The employee is accountable for the effective and efficient management of the work to achieve goals and objectives. The employee usually receives limited guidance in the form of approval/denial on matters of policy, service levels, goals or objectives from high authorities.
Direct Reports
Clinic Manager (4)
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
Education/Relevant Experience: Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree and five (5) years of progressively responsible relevant experience. The experience required for supervisory/management positions will be inclusive of at least three (3) years of supervisory/management experience.
This is a senior professional and/or management position that requires post-secondary education and/or considerable experience or a clinical degree requiring a clinical rotation/internship. Individuals must have applicable education and/or experience applying principles, concepts, and methodology of a professional or administrative occupation to permit the independent performance of recurring assignments or carrying out difficult/complex assignments, operations, and procedures; or applicable education and/or experience applying a wide range of technical methods, principles, and practices similar to a narrow area of a professional field such as the design and planning of difficult, but well-precedented projects.
Preferred Education Requirements
Master's Degree
Preferred Experience Requirements
Six (6) years of progressively responsible experience (if Master's level educated)
Eight (8) years of progressively responsible relevant experience (if Bachelor's level educated)
The GPTLHB is a tribal organization that follows tribal preference laws. Our policy is to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal.
Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks.
This position is responsible and accountable for the continued development of a comprehensive and quality health care service delivery system; the fiduciary and leadership responsibilities for primary and urgent care services at the Oyate Health Center (OHC); development, implementation and evaluation of new programs; and, overseeing the development and results of short-term and long-term strategic plans.
Essential Functions
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- Maintains knowledge of the legal requirements and government reporting regulations affecting health service functions and ensures that policies, procedures, and reporting compliance.
- Assists in the OHC operating budget; administers the funds in accordance with established requirements and priorities; modifies as needed;
- Ensures effective compliance, planning, organization, direction, implementation, execution, measurement and correction, by the primary care services programs.
- Ensures primary care service programs are cost effective while improving clinical outcomes; are delivered in a manner consistent with funding agencies requirements, applicable laws and regulations, and tribal policies; and monitors compliance with funding source requirements.
- Assists in the adequacy and soundness of the OHC's financial structure.
- Reviews contracts and grants and recommends action as requested as appropriate and negotiates and updates contracts as necessary.
- Attends or provides representation at meetings known to be of critical importance for the health of the Great Plains Tribal community.
- Reviews operating results of the primary care services at OHC, compares them to established objectives, and takes steps to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to correct unsatisfactory results.
- Prepares regular reports for the OHC and GPTLHB senior leadership as directed.
- Responsible for decisions relating to hiring, personnel evaluation, disciplinary actions, grievance discussions, coaching development and recommendation of actions, demotions, and termination decisions as applicable for supervisors, providers and department support staff.
- Recruits and retains supervisory staff and providers who possess the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to work effectively within the clinical services and uphold its values, and ensures credentialing is complete before providers are allowed to practice.
- Must comply with federal laws and regulations as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Promote and optimize the health care model utilized to provide services to relatives.
Professional Behavior
- Effectively plan, organize workload and schedule time to meet the demands of the position.
- Work in a cooperative and professional manner with OHC and GPTLHB staff.
- Treat Great Plains tribes and collaborators with dignity and respect.
- Utilize effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Advance personal educational development by attending training sessions and seminars as appropriate.
- Exemplify excellent customer service with tribal stakeholders, health board colleagues, program partners, service recipients, visitors and guests.
- Foster a work environment of wellness, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness and respect.
- Relate well and work collaboratively with coworkers and all levels of staff in a professional manner.
- Consistently demonstrate respect for and acceptance of differing capabilities, cultures, gender, age, sexual orientation and/or personalities.
- Maintain and ensure organizational privacy and confidentiality.
- Handle crisis and tolerate stress professionally.
- Be self-directed and take proactive initiative to assist others.
- Resolve issues with other departments and coworkers without direct supervision if needed.
- Exercise flexibility to alter plans/routines when situations require and continue to perform without projecting stress/frustration that would adversely affect the work environment.
- Promote an alcohol, tobacco and drug-free lifestyle.
- Embrace modes of appearance and attire that reflect a professional presence.
- Adhere to GPTLHB policies and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
Requirements
Proficiency with computer programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other Internet technologies.
Supervisory Controls
The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines and assists the employee with unusual situations that do not have clear precedents.
The employee plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, the scope of license/certification, or accepted practices in the occupation.
Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to policy and requirements. The methods used in arriving at the end results are not usually reviewed in detail.
Guidelines
Guidelines are available but are not completely applicable to the work or have gaps in specificity.
The employee must use judgment in interpreting and adapting guidelines, such as agency policies, regulations, precedents, accreditation requirements, advanced clinical protocols, and work directions for application to specific cases or problems. The employee analyzes results and recommends changes.
The employee uses initiative and resourcefulness in deviating from traditional methods or researching trends and patterns to develop new methods, criteria, or proposed new policies.
Complexity
The work typically includes varied duties that require many different and unrelated processes and methods, such as those relating to well established aspects of an administrative or professional field. Decisions regarding what needs to be done include the assessment of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, and incomplete or conflicting data.
Scope and Effect
The work involves planning, developing, and carrying out vital administrative or scientific programs.
The programs are essential to the missions of the organization or affect large numbers of people on a long-term or continuing basis.
Personal Contacts
The work involves planning, developing, and carrying out vital administrative or scientific programs.
The programs are essential to the missions of the organization or affect large numbers of people on a long-term or continuing basis.
Purpose of Contacts
The purpose is to influence, motivate, interrogate, or control persons or groups. The persons contacted may be fearful, skeptical, uncooperative, or dangerous. Therefore, the employee must be skillful in approaching the individual or group in order to obtain the desired effect, such as gaining compliance with established policies and regulations by persuasion or negotiation, or gaining information by establishing rapport with a suspicious informant.
Physical Demands
The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee sits comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items, such as papers, books, or small parts; or driving an automobile. The employee must be able to read, write, speak and hear.
Work Environment
The work involves moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions, e.g., working around moving parts, carts, or machines; exposure to contagious diseases or irritant chemicals. Employees may be required to use protective clothing or gear, such as masks, gowns, coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields.
Supervisory and Management Responsibility
This is a department head with final responsibility and authority for the accomplishment of objectives, utilization of resources, and personnel administration decisions within a major jurisdictional subdivision. The employee is accountable for the effective and efficient management of the work to achieve goals and objectives. The employee usually receives limited guidance in the form of approval/denial on matters of policy, service levels, goals or objectives from high authorities.
Direct Reports
Clinic Manager (4)
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements
Education/Relevant Experience: Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree and five (5) years of progressively responsible relevant experience. The experience required for supervisory/management positions will be inclusive of at least three (3) years of supervisory/management experience.
This is a senior professional and/or management position that requires post-secondary education and/or considerable experience or a clinical degree requiring a clinical rotation/internship. Individuals must have applicable education and/or experience applying principles, concepts, and methodology of a professional or administrative occupation to permit the independent performance of recurring assignments or carrying out difficult/complex assignments, operations, and procedures; or applicable education and/or experience applying a wide range of technical methods, principles, and practices similar to a narrow area of a professional field such as the design and planning of difficult, but well-precedented projects.
Preferred Education Requirements
Master's Degree
Preferred Experience Requirements
Six (6) years of progressively responsible experience (if Master's level educated)
Eight (8) years of progressively responsible relevant experience (if Bachelor's level educated)
The GPTLHB is a tribal organization that follows tribal preference laws. Our policy is to give preference to qualified Indian/Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions if all other qualifications are equal.
Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks.