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Primary responsibilities for this position include managing support staff, supporting the management of provider schedules, improving patient access, assisting in streamlining support staff workflows, and tracking metrics for their area of responsibility. The Manager Operations position will also work closely with leadership across the organization to ensure best practices are implemented along with a thorough understanding of financial and budgeting processes and principles, which allows the Operations Manager to assess earnings and spending to find areas for improvement.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.\n\nFLSA STATUS\nExempt\nQUALIFICATIONS\nEDUCATION\n Bachelor’s degree \n Master’s degree preferred \nEXPERIENCE\n Five years in a healthcare/administrative capacity with two years supervisory experience; \n For HM applicants, four years HM experience with two years of progressively responsible leadership/project management experience will be considered \n Experience in clinic management preferred \nSKILLS AND ABILITIES\nDemonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job, determined through on-going skills, competency assessments, and performance evaluations \nSufficient proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job, especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security \nAbility to effectively communicate through a variety of channels with patients, physicians, family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles; engages the recipient(s) and helps them understand and retain the message \nDemonstrates the ability to interact with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization \nAbility to use appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations and individuals involved \nDemonstrates leadership qualities and critical thinking through self-direction initiative and effective interpersonal skills and oral/written communication skills \nAbility to identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities, comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences \nAbility to work effectively in a fast paced environment \nDemonstrates flexibility and adaptability in the workplace \nSkilled at managing multiple projects with conflicting priorities \nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nPEOPLE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nPerforms 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. \nProvides 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. Provides timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task or solve a problem. \nFacilitates and promotes effective team dynamics and teambuilding strategies within and between departments; participates and/or leads and facilitates department process improvements as needed. \nMeets or exceeds threshold goal for department and/or system metrics on employee engagement indicators. \nProvides leadership to achieve a satisfied and competent employee work environment. Directs, delegates and oversees work efforts as appropriate to ensure the highest quality and best possible delivery of service. \nEnsures that department consistently achieves desired clinical and management outcomes, including high degree of patient and physician satisfaction. Implements change, demonstrating the ability to motivate employees and follow through. \nSERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nPlans and organizes day-to-day department operations, schedule and activities. Sets priorities and functional standards, giving direction to staff as necessary to ensure the best possible delivery of service and high customer/patient satisfaction. \nDrives department service standards and activities to impact department and/or system score for patient/customer-based satisfaction, through role modeling and fostering accountability. Serves and actively participates on various entity committees as a voice for the department. \nOptimizes clinical operations and patient flow to ensure quality of care provided to patients. Conduct regular analysis to ensure that schedules are being utilized to the fullest potential resulting in increased patient access. \nParticipates in leadership meetings and committees of the Physician Organization and/or Hospital. Leads efforts to create an environment of personalized service and engages patients, staff, and physicians. \nUtilizes practice metrics to optimize practice performance which includes, but is not limited to staffing benchmarks, panel size, next third available, fill rate, no show rate, double booking strategies, wRVU by specialty. \nQUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nEnsures a safe and effective working environment; monitors and/or revises the department safety plan and/or any specific accreditation/regulatory required safety guidelines. \nUses and optimizes information systems to enhance operations; supports entity-specific performance improvement and data management/analysis functions. \nEmploys a proactive approach in the optimization of safe outcomes by monitoring and improving the department workflow, using peer-to-peer accountability, and identifying solutions via collaboration. Adopts lean principles in driving process improvements. Role models situational awareness, using teachable moments to improve safety. \nMonitors self and employee compliance with policies, procedures, and System HR Standards of Practice and performs associated actions upon non-compliance (i.e., focal point review requirements, disaster plan, in-services, influenza immunization, wage and hour, standard hours, timely termination submission, timely timecard approval, etc.). \nEstablishes and enforces benchmarks consistent with MGMA industry standards and monitors effectiveness. Ensures appropriate skill sets relative to benchmarks and performance goals. \nMonitors key operational indicators including financial and quality metrics e.g. in basket utilization, clinical close rate, etc. Assesses current performance and develops action plans to achieve optimal performance. \nFINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nAssists 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, ensuring that the department meets the budgeted/flex revenue and/or expense targets on a monthly and annual basis. Develops staffing plans and schedules to meet department needs that reflect understanding of the importance of cost-effectiveness. \nImplements department strategies to achieve financial target and staffing needs, developing others to do the same, through optimizing productivity, supply/resource efficiency, minimizing incidental overtime and overtime percentage, and other areas according to department specifications. \nGROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS\nIdentifies and implements innovative solutions for practice or workflow changes to improve department operations or other department-specific measures by leading unit projects and/or other department/system directed activities. Supports change initiatives, maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusts effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements or cultures. \nProactively evaluates processes; recommends and implements action plan(s) for change; follows through to ensure effective, sustainable change. Participates in the development and implementation of new procedures and the review and revision of existing procedures. \nIdentifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, and units to achieve business goals. \nSeeks opportunities to identify developmental needs of self and staff and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates My Development plan on an on-going basis. Conducts conversations with staff on their development. \nContributes to the development of annual goals and objectives for the clinic. Assists the staff in achieving the goals via training and appropriate resources. \nSUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS\n WORK ATTIREUniform: No \nScrubs: Yes \nBusiness professional: Yes \nOther (department approved): No \nON-CALL*\n*Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. Disaster, Severe Weather Events, etc) regardless of selection below.\nOn Call* Yes \nTRAVEL**\n**Travel specifications may vary by department**\nMay require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes \nMay require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes \n\nWork Shift:\n1 - Day (United States of America)\n\nJob Category:\nNon-clinical\n\nWith more than 40 locations throughout the Greater Houston area, Houston Methodist Primary Care Group brings quality, compassionate care to the entire family and to the communities where our patients work and live. 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