Program Director, Health Information Management
Department: Health Professions M & E
Location: Metropolitan Campus
Reports To: Associate Dean Health Professions M & E
Recruitment Type: External/Internal
Requisition ID: req6814
Employment Type: Administration and Professionals
Union Position: Non-Union
Work Schedule: Standard College Hours M-F 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Number of Openings: 1
Job Description:
SUMMARY
Oversees and manages the
organization, administration, periodic review, planning, development, and
general effectiveness of the Health
Information Management Program.
ESSENTIAL
FUNCTIONS
- Oversees and manages the Health Information Management Program
- Responsible for accreditation activities
- Provides leadership by assuring accreditation standards are met.
- Prepares and administers budget.
- Supervises and assesses the performance of assigned staff.
- Serves as a liaison between the college and health care facilities.
- Oversees didactic and clinical instructional process including student evaluations and schedules.
- Secure and maintain meaningful Professional Practice Experiential Learning contracts with local and distant Professional Practice
- Experiential Learning sites. Oversee scheduling and student assignments to Professional Practice Experiential Learning sites.
- Counsels and advises students.
- Coordinates development of curriculum and revisions
- Prepares course schedules and makes instructional assignments.
- Performs didactic instruction and evaluation of program courses.
- Markets program and recruits students
- Coordinates Advisory Committee and all program admission activities.
- Provides input for outcomes assessment and program objectives.
- Develops and maintains effective communication with prospective applicants, students, graduates, faculty, clinical instructors, and community.
- Conducts faculty, clinical instructor, and staff meetings.
- Maintains required BCI and up to date immunizations.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION AND
EXPERIENCE/TRAINING
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Certified as a Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA).
- Minimum of five years’ professional experience in Health Information Management.
- Years’ experience should be recent.
- Demonstrated experience supervising, planning, assigning, scheduling, and ensuring the quality of the work of others.
- Demonstrated experience effectively making decisions that have major implications on the management and operations within a department.
- Demonstrated experience forecasting, planning, maintaining, preparing, and monitoring a business area’s budget.
- Demonstrated effectiveness in a role requiring dynamic and abstract problem-solving methods in adaptive situations.
- Must successfully complete a Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI) Background Check to include fingerprinting, social security number trace, county record search, state search, and a check of Federal Bureau of Investigation records.
- Must provide proof of required immunizations as specified at: http://www.tri-c.edu/programs/health-careers
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and
ABILITIES
- Possess comprehensive knowledge of Health Information Management theories, concepts, and practices with the ability to use them in complex, difficult and/or unprecedented situations as it pertains to the departmental focus.
- Demonstrated intermediate proficiency with Microsoft products, includ