VP Operations- Behavioral Health

General Description: Reporting to the President of the Children's Division, and under limited direction, the Vice President oversees the operations and is responsible for the financial, clinical, operational and patient experience outcomes for the Pediatric Behavioral Health service line, including the Behavioral Health Center. Serves as a member of the senior leadership team and works collaboratively with leaders from the administrative staff, management staff, medical staff, OU Health Sciences Center and other clinical areas to advance the objectives of the facility.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• Serves as the Administrative leader and works closely with the Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Operating Officer for Oklahoma Children's Hospital to develop and implement strategies for achieving mutually defined goals of the Pediatric Behavioral Health service line.
• Establishes a climate that encourages teamwork, promotes collegial collaboration among all employees and physicians and encourages innovation and transparent communication.
• Drives a high reliability culture with transparency and consideration of the larger goal of leading healthcare and delivering within a framework of population health.
• Ensures quality of care and cost effective services throughout all areas of responsibility and works collaboratively to ensure the same throughout OU Health.
• Ensures that the organization meets or exceeds quality standards and budget expectations.
• Supports Children's Division President in activities of strategic planning and measurement/communication of outcomes and responsible for related projects.
• Conducts a broad range of healthcare/business-development related research and partners with other senior leaders to develop strategic analysis for business opportunities and organizational growth as well as assessing existing operational systems for efficiencies and improvement.
• Works across enterprise to support cascading of tactics, strategies, and operations of service line and coordination of organizational efforts, resources and care within service line.
• Ensures that the Behavioral Health Center fulfills the standards for psychiatric care as required by the appropriate surveying agencies.
• Develops and nurtures strong working relationships with physician and provider partners and is a resource to members of the medical staff.
• Partners with physicians to collaborate on initiatives to improve the patient experience, quality of care, and clinical outcomes as well as compliance with all applicable regulations and policies.
• Collaborates with organizational leaders to identify philanthropic strategy to sustain service line growth and effectively implement operational systems to support

General Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: MBA or other Master's Degree in relevant area required.

Experience: 7 to 10 years progressive leadership experience in healthcare to include leadership in the inpatient hospital setting required. Prefer experience in Behavioral Health setting.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: N/A

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong operational management skills.
• Demonstrated business acumen.
• Demonstrated understanding of various disciplines within the facility.
• Ability to balance people/ organizational decisions with business considerations.
• Experience using metrics to drive decisions and working with external vendors.
• Must be a strategic thinker, self-motivated and have excellent problem solving, project management skills, and budgeting skills.
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate effectively to a broad range of audiences to include physicians, hospital leadership and community leaders.
• Results driven and collaborative style to achieve defined objectives.