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Houston Methodist

Senior Practice Manager - Primary Care (Sugar Land/Aliana)

Houston Methodist, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246


At Houston Methodist, the Senior Practice Manager position is responsible for independently managing and/or coordinating complex delivery of care within a large, multi-physician primary care, specialty, or multi-disciplinary practice. This position supervises the functions related to front desk, business transactions, clinical support services, compliance, safety, and customer service and is responsible for maximizing revenue through efficient, effective, and compliant procedures. The Senior Practice Manager position works collaboratively with clinic medical staff and with system-wide administrative and medical staff as needed. This position is committed to creating a culture of compassion, integrity, innovative thinking, and leadership excellence.

The manager position responsibilities include managing the daily work activities of the work unit/department staff, ensuring quality, productivity, functional excellence, and efficiency while assisting management in accomplishing strategic and operational objectives. In addition, this position provides guidance to staff and is responsible for staffing, budget compliance, contributing to staffing decisions such as hiring and terminating employment, coaching and counseling employees on work-related performance, and assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures to ensure a safe and effective work environment. This position also implements training, monitoring, and operations initiatives that secure compliance with ethical and legal business practices and accreditation/regulatory/government regulations.

PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSPerforms management responsibilities of selection, scheduling, supervision, retention, and evaluation of employees in the department. Provides development and mentoring of staff. Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department turnover. Develops direct reports to perform these same functions.Provides fair and consistent leadership and communication to maintain a competent and engaged employee group by conducting regular department meetings to review policies and procedures and operational matters, rounding on all employees, completing performance appraisals, conducting new hire feedback sessions, coaching/corrective counseling, and providing recognition/commendations to achieve desired outcomes.Facilitates and promotes effective team dynamics and teambuilding strategies within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed.Meets or exceeds threshold goal for department and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators.Celebrates accomplishments, providing opportunities for individual growth and personal support. Responds to employee concerns, demonstrating active listening, requesting and acknowledging feedback, making equitable decisions, providing rationale when appropriate, and taking appropriate action, ensuring that requests are handled in a swift manner to avoid interruption of services.

SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSPlans and organizes day-to-day department operations, schedule and activities of the practice for staff, physicians, and associated physician extenders. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction.Drives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability.Serves as role model to staff, reinforcing principles of service orientation and ensuring that the focus is always on improving patient care and/or service.

QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSEnsures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines, including infection control principles.Uses and optimizes information systems to enhance operations; supports entity-specific performance improvement and data management/analysis functions.Employs a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes by monitoring and improving the department workflow.

FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSAssists in the development of department budget and ensures that the department operates in a cost-effective manner. Manages/audits department expenses within approved budget parameters.Implements department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs, developing others to do the same.Monitors charge capture patient encounters and co-payment collections to ensure that appropriate procedures are adhered to.

GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONSIdentifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department operations or other department-specific measures.Proactively evaluates processes; recommends and implements action plan(s) for change.Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.

EDUCATIONHigh School diploma or equivalent education (examples include: GED, verification of homeschool equivalency, partial or full completion of post-secondary education, etc.)

WORK EXPERIENCEFive years of clinical healthcare experience, of which at least two years must have been in a managerial role; may consider HM employee with four years of clinical experience in relevant field with HM performance that demonstrates progressive leadership abilities.

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