Child Section Administrator, Focus: Ambulatory and Intensive Services

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Department of Psychiatry

Job Title: Child Section Administrator, Focus: Ambulatory and Intensive Services

Position #: 00846275 – Requisition #: 39381

Job Summary:

The Section Administrator reports directly to the Administrative Director for Child Health in the Department of Psychiatry and works closely with the Section Administrator of Integrated and Community Services as well as hospital business and operations counterparts. The University School of Medicine Section Administrator of Ambulatory/Intensive Services is responsible for the administration of a more than 75+ member section/section within the Department of Psychiatry.  This complex section works closely with Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) to provide psychiatric services across the spectrum of care from our growing outpatient services to inpatient, crisis, and emergency services.

The section also houses a growing research group, a large training program which includes trainees from several disciplines and includes a highly productive academic mission.  This section/section will be responsible for the oversight of strategic hospital focus areas including the Suicide Prevention Initiative with subject matter experts and professional research assistants reporting up through this administrative leader. The Section Administrator will be responsible for working with the Section Heads for Ambulatory and Intensive Services, CHCO Director of Operations, CHCO Director of the Pediatric Mental Health Service line, and the Department’s Child Health Administrative Director to move strategic plans forward.  The Section Administrator will partner closely with CHCO strategy and administrative partners to create pro formas, staffing plans, contracts, organizational structures, and procure and manage philanthropic support for this endeavor as well as planning for long term sustainability. 

The Section Administrator has responsibility for the financial health of the section, including grants and contracts and philanthropic funding management and monitoring clinical model metrics.  The Section Administrator is responsible for supervision of two program managers, including the Ambulatory Program Manager and the IT Program Manager, working together to oversee and monitor the clinical practice including direct, continuous contact with CU MEDICINE and CHCO to ensure appropriate education of providers, documentation templates, coding, collections and productivity.

The Section Administrator is responsible for planning, with the Section Head, hospital leaders, and the Child Health Administrative Director, the recruitment of faculty and staff, including management of salary expectations.  Due to the growing nature of this program, the Section Administrator will continually refine and develop the Sectional administrative structure along with the Section Head and the Child Health Administrative Director.  The Section Administrator must understand the complex personnel system of the University and CHCO and follow appropriate policies and procedures for faculty, professional staff, temporary staff, and personnel.  The Section Administrator is responsible for assisting in Space and Facilities administration at CHCO and UCD including space allocation, remodeling, reporting of use, management of capital equipment, etc.

The Section Administrator is responsible for developing and directing the long-range strategic business plan for the programs under their purview, which i