Physician - Division Chief, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health - Grand Rapids, MI

The Corewell Health West Medical Group in Grand Rapids, Michigan offers an excellent opportunity for a full-time board certified Psychiatrist to lead in the role of Division Chief.  Reporting to the system behavioral health department chief vice president, the division chief leads all sections within the adult division.  This leader will guide teams in our ambulatory, hospital-based, and telepsychiatry practices. 

As division chief, you would maintain a clinical practice and have dedicated time to lead your team while partnering with the director of operations on division strategy.  The ideal candidate has 3 to 5+ years of experience and has practiced within a sizeable heath system.

This important position leads the following sections within the division:

• Psychiatry (Physicians & Advanced Practice Providers, inclusive of the Consult Liaison team)

• Psychology

• Psychotherapy

• Addiction

Qualifications: MD/DO, BC/BE Psychiatry, 3-5+ years of leadership experience preferred, Michigan Medical License (ability to obtain)

Corewell Health West Medical Group

The Corewell Health West Medical Group is part of a not-for-profit health system serving 13 counties in West Michigan. Corewell Health West is a region of Corewell Health™, formerly the BHSH System (Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health) that provides care and coverage with an exceptional team of 60,000+ dedicated people—including more than 11,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 15,000 nurses providing care and services in 22 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and several post-acute facilities—and Priority Health, a provider-sponsored health plan serving over 1.2 million members. Through experience and collaboration, we are reimagining a better, more equitable model of health and wellness. 

Essential Functions

• In collaboration with Department Chief and Academic Chair, responsible and accountability for the following:
  
  Leadership
  
  Demonstrate personal character
  • Uphold, by example and by coaching, the Code of Excellence of the Spectrum Health Medical Group
  • Act at all times in a fiduciary role for the Medical Group, the System, and on behalf of our patients
  
  Clinical performance
  • Demonstrate a high level of skill, expertise and experience in patient care processes.
  • Have and use a broad and deep knowledge base that is contemporary with the latest medical scientific evidence.
  • Lead by example in the development of an evidence-based, multidisciplinary care approach.
  
  Sets the direction for the Division
  • Communicate a clear vision
  • Demonstrate an understanding of community and patient needs and expectations
  • Align his/her performance and enlists the commitment and performance of others to attain the envisioned future state
  
  Mobilize individual commitment
  • Build collaborative relationships through support and encouragement, rather than through criticism
  • Demonstrate willingness and ability to share power and control
  • Listens
  • Demonstrate willingness and ability to involve others and elicit participation
  • Empower and engages colleagues and associates, and strengthens them by sharing power and information
  • Create opportunities for people to contribute their strongest personal talents to the team effort
  • Coach, mentor, and educate other physicians, residents, fellows, nurses and staff towards the effective implementation of the means to reach the targets and goals of the Division/program
  • Identify clear expectations for performance and hold physician accountable for their actions
  • Consistently provide open feedback, with clear, direct and concise information to support personal performance
  
  Engender organizational capability
  • Build organizational infrastructure by demonstrating formal leadership capable of integrating, resourcing, and orchestrating activities of various project teams
  • Align the organization with its strategy
  • Fully commit to the long-term strategy of building a valuable organization
  • Leverage diversity by resolving conflicts diplomatically and identifying a common ground
  • Advocate partnering and collaboration as preferred styles of behavior
  • Develop the various strengths in colleagues and associates
  • Deploy and develop teams through cross-fertilization of best practices and provision of frequent feedback that helps improve team performance
  • Support the design and development of human resources systems, including especially performance management and training and development
  • Make change happen as a catalyst and manager of stra