Director, Clinical Programs (Clinical Improvement, Access Team)- REMOTE

This Director will be responsible for the development and maintenance of our comprehensive access management program across DaVita Kidney Care (DKC). This spans permanent access placement, CVC removal, ongoing maintenance of permanent access, and supporting access transitions. 

Key areas of focus:

• Rolling out new training, clinical pathways/protocols
• Providing leadership and execution on pay for performance contracts
• Identifying future opportunities in support of multi-year vision and roadmap 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Team leadership and supervision
• Collaborate with OCMO leadership, CE teammates, and field to refine access management roadmap
• Lead pilots and Nationwide initiative rollouts
• Building on clinical vision to Identify opportunities, develop innovative solutions, and build business cases for initiatives to achieve goals
• Strong problem-solving abilities to take complex issues, develop detailed plans, and coordinate execution
• Lead pilots, identify key goals and metrics to align performance with success, drive on results communicate results, assess go-no go for scale
• Partner with Integrated Kidney Care (IKC) teams as well as the Home team to ensure alignment; front-line cross-team workflows, electronic medical record/documentation, and reporting
• Organize and provide executive, management, and front-line initiatives and performance reporting and communication
• Identify new areas of opportunity with vendors to implement new clinical and risk adjustment initiatives and assist in the development and management of vendor contracts as needed

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required, Masters preferred
• Prior experience leading a team
• At least 5 years of experience in the following areas in a healthcare setting:
  • Dialysis experience preferred
  • Analytics and data analysis
  • Extensive experience with problem solving and strategy development & alignment
  • Highly organized with a strong attention to detail
  • Experience working in highly matrixed organization
  • Ability to work within a fast-moving work environment
  • Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills

What We’ll Provide:

More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more

• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.