Hospital Based Providers Regional Director

Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

 

Summary:
Primary functions of the position are to lead the hospital based provider recruiters with souring, recruiting, and contracting qualified physician candidates within the hospital based programs to ensure physician recruitment success.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Leads the hospital based provider recruiting team by designing processes and optimizing performance to successfully recruit physicians and advanced practice clinicians in the hospitalist, emergency medicine, anesthesia and other hospital based programs.
• Brings about positive results in coordination with CEOs, site medical directors, legal, and corporate support teams
• Assists with the training of hospital staff in physician recruitment matters
• Understands and explains contract language and negotiates with candidates and their legal representatives as needed
• Responsible for accurate, legally-correct recruitment agreements meeting all compliance requirements

 

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reasoning Ability:
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Computer Skills:
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software; Spreadsheet software and Database software.
• Certificates and Licenses: None
• Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • Supervises individual Physician Recruiters.
• Education/Experience:
  • Bachelors degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or Health Care Administration
  • Minimum of six (6) years of healthcare recruiting experience
  • Four (4) years of physician recruitment experience preferred
  • Physician contracting experience required with 1099 experience a plus
  • Knowledge of hospital based physician operations models a plus

 

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
• The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
• The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.