Clinical Initiatives Manager

Job Description:

The Clinical Initiatives Manager is responsible for leading the development, implementation, education, and evaluation of clinical initiatives in support of Clinical Programs across the organization. This role drives highly complex projects that advance Clinical Programs Executive Committee and Steering Committee goals, strategic initiatives, and the evolution of innovative care models. Reporting to Clinical Programs leadership, the manager fosters innovation, clinical excellence, and care delivery redesign to enhance positive clinical impact along with caregiver and patient experiences. Working collaboratively across the enterprise with key stakeholders including regional service lines, relevant committees, hospitals, regions, departments, councils, and teams, this role defines, designs, and integrates initiatives that improve clinical processes and deliver measurable value to those we serve.

Position Details:
 

This position is an enterprise role supporting Clinical Programs, with a focus on strategy, innovation, and measurable improvements in patient care quality, and cost-efficiency. The Clinical Initiatives Manager partners with Clinical Programs leadership and multidisciplinary teams to drive initiatives that span across regions, departments, and care settings.

Responsibilities include leading and integrating clinical initiatives that align with organizational goals and industry benchmarks, beyond the scope of individual service lines. The role emphasizes early risk identification, operational excellence, and the co-creation of clinical care models that deliver value to patients and caregivers system-wide. Collaboration with service lines, shared services, committees, hospitals, and councils is essential to ensure initiatives are designed and implemented to benefit the entire Clinical Programs portfolio.

The Clinical Initiatives Manager is accountable for supporting evidence-based practice, workflow redesign, and quality improvement programs that impact clinical outcomes across the enterprise. This role requires strong partnership with the analytics team to identify opportunities for improvement and to measure the impact of Clinical Programs initiatives at both system and regional levels

Essential Functions:

• Develops and maintains project roadmaps, milestones and deliverables related to initiatives, using evidence-based practice and methodologies
• Coordinates internal resources to gain consensus, develop solutions and inform objectives and deliverables
• Manages timelines and issues related to projects and work
• May be responsible for following projects post implementation to provide ongoing evaluation and assure success
• Coordinates necessary resources to resolve complex problems and balance the focus on processes with appropriate outcomes
• May facilitate appropriate external and internal communications related to initiatives.
• Accountable to establish or develop appropriate metrics for initiatives with SME's and data analytics and evaluate/quantify the impact of implemented initiatives through measurement of clinical process, outcomes, patient or caregivers experience and/or financial objectives

Skills:

• Clinical Process Improvement
• Clinical Operations
• Educational Evaluations
• Health Care Systems
• New Program Development
• Program Management
• Health Care Regulation
• Hospital Operations
• Data Analysis

Physical Requirements:

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated professional healthcare or experience in a clinical setting that demonstrates clinical expertise and understanding of healthcare systems.
• Experience in a role requiring data management, analysis and presentation skills including use of common tools to extract data and develop reports and graphs for use in reporting.
• Experience in management of organizational projects, excellent team leadership, team participation and data analysis skills.
• Experience in problem-solving and improving processes and an understanding for how technology can help improve care.
• Working knowledge of, and experience with health care regulations, leadership, development or mentoring of others, presenting to medium to large groups of clinicians and leaders

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree. Education must be obtained from an accredited institution.
• Clinical licensure or certification in related field
• Five years of professional healthcare or experience in a clinical setting that demonstrates clinical expertise and understanding of healthcare systems. 

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs. 
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately. 
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc. 
• May have the same physical requirements as those of clinical or patient care jobs, when the leader takes clinical shifts. 
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.  

Location:

Transformation Center

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. 

$ $78.69

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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