Job Details
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- Communication skills
- Fiscal management
- JCAHO
- Master's degree
- Quality management
- Word processing
Benefits
- 401(k)
- AD&D insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- On-site gym
Job Description
The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit Tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. In partnership with the more than 171,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people that we serve and the Tribal health organizations of the Alaska Tribal Health System, ANTHC provides world-class health services, which include comprehensive medical services at the Alaska Native Medical Center, wellness programs, disease research and prevention, rural provider training and rural water and sanitation systems construction.
ANTHC is the largest, most comprehensive Tribal health organization in the United States, and Alaska’s second-largest health employer with more than 3,100 employees offering an array of health services to people around the nation’s largest state.
Our vision: Alaska Native people are the healthiest people in the world.
Benefits include:
Generous Paid Time Off and holiday schedule with 4 weeks paid vacation per year to start and 12 paid holidays.
More than 19 Federal healthcare plans with plans for employee, employee plus one, and employee plus family available. ANTHC covers 80% of all health insurance premiums and 100% of Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, and AD&D.
401(a) retirement plan; ANTHC will contribute 3% of your annual compensation to the plan account each year, with up to an additional 5% match with a 6-year vesting schedule.
403(b) retirement savings plan with pre-tax and Roth options. Flexible Spending Accounts for Health Care and Dependent care are also available.
Onsite Child Care is available in a brand new education facility.
Onsite free gym access. Additional gym, rock climbing wall and salt-water pool available at the Alaska Pacific University for a small fee per semester. Steep discounts on outdoor equipment rentals for your Alaskan adventures!
Tuition reductions for employees and their eligible dependents at the Alaska Pacific University.
or contact Recruitment directly at HRRecruiting@anthc.org.
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has a hiring preference for qualified Alaska Native and American Indian applicants pursuant to P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination Act.
Summary: Under limited supervision, develops and maintains multiple clinical departments . Works with clinical staff, management, and leadership to ensure success of the multi-specialty clinic.
Responsibilities:
Maintains efficient office and clinic workflow to ensure productivity of staff and processes. Continuously evaluates systems, policies, and procedures and implements necessary improvements to ensure clinical efficiency. Continuously improves clinical operations to meet and exceed customer requirements. Maintains and encourages a patient-centered clinical focus.
Ensures financial viability of the clinic . Monitors budget to actual variance and other financial reports. Reviews, approves, and monitors expenses. Assess future and current needs of the deppartments based on patient/customer requirements to incorporate into annual budgeting cycle.
Provide coordination and serve as interdepartmental liaison between clinical departments.
Provides leadership, direction, and guidance to assigned staff. Develops goals and priorities in conjunction with employees, and assigns tasks and projects. Develops staff skills and training plans. Counsels, trains, and coaches subordinate staff. Implements corrective actions and conducts performance evaluations. Maintains the confidentiality of patient records and procedures.
Develops, manages and monitors project budgets and contracts. Completes internal and external written and oral reports professionally and in a timely manner. Coordinates with ANTHC finance department to insure timely and accurate financial reporting.
Optimizes financial reporting which may include identifying data requirements to: manage the multi-specialty departments financial viability and productivity; give providers feedback about their productivity and overall contribution to the departments; demonstrate the multi-specialty clinic’s financial status to the Executive Management Team. Develop and implement the use of financial and productivity reports based on the above data requirements.
Develops and updates an annual business/action plan for the departments. Participate in performance, quality, and clinical improvement practices. Ensures productivity, patient volume, and reviews related to internal trends and external benchmarks. Communicate departtment status to staff, management, and leadership. Prepare status reports for review in management meetings.
Maximizes department revenue-generating capabilities. May include, but is not limited to: performance of gap analysis in relation to best practice operations; develop and implement improvement plan; integrate improvement plan into BSC/Dashboard.
Maximizes efficiency and effectiveness as appropriate which may include, but is not limited to: ensuring customer/patient satisfaction and loyalty; developing and meeting of productivity measures; producing appropriate documentation and coding. Ensures effective billing, collections, posting, and denials.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Other information:
KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS
Knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and Tribal law, regulations, rules, policies and processes.
Knowledge of relevant specialized fields such as Federal Indian law and self-determination/self- governance, health law, employment law & construction law.
Knowledge of Alaska Tribal Health System, ANTHC, and Alaska Native culture(s) and politics.
Knowledge of JCAHO standards and applicable standards of healthcare service delivery organizations.
Knowledge of principles relating to quality management and quality improvement.
Knowledge of process improvement methods and measures.
Knowledge of state, federal, and tribal health care programs.
Knowledge of fiscal management.
Knowledge of practice management.
Skill in using analytical skills to define and solve problems.
Skill in effectively managing and leading staff and delegating tasks and authority.
Skill in evaluating the work of contractors and consultants for compliance with project plans, specifications, and applicable laws, ordinances, and policies.
Skill in operating a personal computer specifically spreadsheets, word processing, e-mail, and project management software tools.
Skill in oral and written communication.
Skill in working on several assignments simultaneously.
Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with individuals with wide array of cultural, political, educational, socio-economic, geographic and linguistic backgrounds.
Skill in addressing sensitive issues and situations.
Skill in advising leaders of complex organizational units.
MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Healthcare Management or related field. Progressively responsible professional/exempt work experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for graduate education.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION
Non-supervisory - Five (5) years of experience in physician practice management in an ambulatory setting or equivalent work experience. Must have extensive experience in process and performance improvement, change and quality management and management of people.
AND
Supervisory - Three (3) years involving employee supervision of physician practice and ambulatory care personnel.
PREFERRED EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
Master’s Degree in Healthcare Management or related field.
PREFERRED CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION
CMPE or FACMPE in the American College of Medical Practice Executives.