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DIVISIONAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR for Behavioral Health - BBHH

Position Summary:

The Divisional Medical Director (DMD) for Behavioral Health oversees the clinical, customer, and learning performance of medical providers within the Behavioral Health service line at Banner Medical Group (BMG). Together with their team, the DMD fosters a service-oriented culture centered on employee and provider engagement, quality, patient safety, patient experience, and service excellence across all practice sites. They collaborate with BMG and facility leadership to implement system and BMG goals, policies, and clinical quality initiatives. Additionally, the DMD may assist in developing, troubleshooting, and tracking clinical and operational performance.

Core Functions:

1. Oversees physician engagement, productivity, staffing, and recruitment while monitoring for signs of burnout.
2. Provides feedback to providers on clinical and leadership performance, interpersonal skills, and career development. Collaborates with HR or other leadership partners when necessary to develop improvement plans.
3. Reviews quality metrics and develops action plans as needed. Assists in developing monitoring tools.
4. Organizes and attends division provider meetings.
5. Works closely with operational partners to achieve clinical and operational excellence.
6. Cultivates strong relationships with corporate and hospital leaders.
7. Collaborates with clinical leaders to enhance cross-disciplinary clinical integration.
8. Participates in required BMG leadership/governance structures and Clinical Consensus Group meetings.
9. 80 % Clinical / 20% Administrative
10. Reports directly to the Physician Executive.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Directly Reporting: May include direct supervision of Behavioral Health Physician Site Leads within the region(s) and/or service lines. Matrix or Indirect Reporting: In partnership with Senior Ops Directors, may supervise Behavioral Health Physician Site Leads. Type of Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages personnel actions including recruiting, hiring, training, and evaluations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Medical Doctorate or Doctor of Osteopathy Degree with Board Certification or eligibility strongly preferred.
• Three to five years of clinical practice experience.
• Eligible for or hold a current State license to practice medicine and medical staff privileges.
• Three years of leadership experience within a medical group or hospital organized medical staff preferred.
• Proven track record of influencing clinicians, facilitating group leadership, and driving cultural change.
• Experience in strategizing and implementing improvements in clinical care and patient satisfaction.
• Knowledge of modern clinical technology trends, quality, and patient safety.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and human relations skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience as a Medical Director or Physician Lead for a department, practice, practice management organization, hospital system, or MCO.
• Experience with value based care and continuous quality improvement activities.

Note: The core functions outline the general content and requirements of the position and are not exhaustive. Specific tasks will be determined by the incumbent's immediate leader.

Banner Health Leadership upholds the mission, values, and purpose of the organization and serves as role models for staff, prioritizing people-centered, service excellence-focused, and results-oriented approaches.

About Banner Health

You want to help lead change in the health care field – rather than just react to it. You want to spend your time doing what you do best – caring for patients. You belong at Banner Medical Group (BMG) and Banner – University Medicine Group (BUMG).As Banner Health's employed physician group with more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practitioners across more than 65 specialties, BMG, is transforming the delivery of care. This transformation can most clearly be seen in our Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) implementation. Through PCMH, we’re organizing care around patients, working in teams and coordinating and tracking care over time. The end result is the highest quality and most efficient delivery of patient care.For physicians working in their own practices, we have two different paths to lead you to a colorful career with Banner Health.We also offer faculty positions at Banner – University Medicine Center in partnership with the University of Arizona.