Chief Medical Officer

Job Description

Chief Medical Officer

Job purpose

Reporting to the Vice President of Clinical Affairs, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is an exciting opportunity at the intersection of community health, leadership, and program building. The CMO will ensure timely access to high quality medical care for our patients through practice transformation, value improvement, recruitment and retention of providers, supervision and adherence to quality improvement initiatives and supervision of the medical staff. The CMO works collaboratively with the other clinical service line directors to provide high value, integrated care to all patients.

Duties and responsibilities

Working in a highly matrixed and project-based environment, the CMO is responsible for oversight of all medical care service lines across clinical sites and school-based health centers. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide leadership, expertise and administrative oversight to teams, maintaining an effective organization and fostering leadership for the health center.
• Participate in program development and organizational planning to ensure responsive care.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, supervise and evaluate providers
• Nurture relationships of the health center with affiliated institutions, clinical training programs and community organizations
• Advise and consult with Executive Team on medical and clinical aspects of the health center’s programs and operation including organizational development of and maintenance of integrated (clinical/behavioral health/dental) operation
• Interpret and analyze clinical and operational data that leads to action
• Make recommendations to Executive Team on clinical operations, talent acquisition and management to improve clinical, operational and financial performance outcomes
• Help manage budget and drivers of avoidable clinical risk; analyzes and reports clinical performance (quality/outcomes, operations/team, experience) data to provider and payer stakeholders and senior management
• Performs clinical duties for 50% of time
• Responsible for medical service line peer review