Associate Vice President and Chief Advanced Practice Officer

Requisition # 822121

ABOUT UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER

The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ranks among the top academic medical centers in the world.  Its faculty members – who are responsible for a broad array of groundbreaking biomedical research advances – are respected for their dedication to teaching and patient care.  The medical center has four degree-granting institutions: UT Southwestern Medical School, UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions and the UT Southwestern School of Public Health.  The schools train about 3,700 medical, graduate, and allied health students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows each year.

UT Southwestern was named one of the Top 5 Best Organizations for Leadership Development (BOLD) Award winners by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) in 2022. The NCHL conducts a survey of health care organizations across the U.S. every other year to assess all components of organizations’ efforts to prepare and develop leaders.

A great medical center offers outstanding patient care in addition to fine teaching and innovative research.  We emphasize compassionate medical treatment.  UT Southwestern’s physicians are equipped to bring the latest laboratory findings to each patient.  We provide inpatient care to nearly 117,000 people and oversee approximately 3 million outpatient visits annually. UT Southwestern has approximately 21,000 employees and an operating budget of approximately $4.1 billion.

WHY UT SOUTHWESTERN?
With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued employees. Ranked as the number 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth according to U.S. News & World Report, we invest in you with opportunities for career growth and development to align with your future goals. Our highly competitive benefits package offers healthcare, PTO and paid holidays, on-site childcare, wage, merit increases and so much more. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, and a rewarding career!

JOB SUMMARY
The Associate Vice President and Chief Advanced Practice Officer (CAPO) is a transformational, visionary leader that manages the organization wide strategy and integration of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs). A key objective for the Associate VP & CAPO is to ensure industry standard APP practice and implementation of best practices across UT Southwestern Medical Center continuum of care. The Associate VP and CAPO will manage the Office of Advanced Practice Providers and develop mission critical Advanced Practice Provider initiatives and programming. The position will provide leadership through excellent management, coaching, and mentoring to ensure the development of APPs is in concert with UT Southwestern’s mission, values, and goals. 

BENEFITS
UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer
• Learn more about these and other UTSW employee benefits!

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience
Required

• Education
  • Master’s degree in healthcare, nursing, finance, business, or related field.
  • Graduate of an accredited, Master’s level Physician Assistant (PA)/ Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) (i.e. Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Certified Nurse Midwife, or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) program. 

• Experience
  • 10 years of progressive leadership experience in a large, complex health care system 

• Licenses and Certifications
  • APRN’s must hold national board certification Upon Hire
  • Physician Assistants must be certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Upon Hire
  • Must hold current, unrestricted license to practice as an APRN or PA with prescriptive authority in home State; and eligible for licensure in Texas if not already in place Upon Hire
  • Unrestricted licensure to practice in the State of Texas required within six months of hire within 180 Days 

Preferred

• Education
  • Terminal degree in related field, i.e., PhD/ DNP/ DMSc 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job Duties

• STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
  • Provides leadership and direction to the Advanced Practice leadership team for developing and implementing pioneering methods to achieve health system goals through high-performing care teams, enhanced integration of APPs and optimization of Advanced Practice care operations.
  • Partners with physician, nursing and operational leaders across the health system to drive mission-driven clinical transformation and APP care model innovation to enhance integrated care delivery services that allow better precision with predicting patient outcomes and ensure efficient use of limited human capital and financial resources.
  • Provides executive level leadership for APPs and other care team clinicians in partnership with Physician Enterprise, Nursing Enterprise and Clinical Service Lines stakeholders. Develops strategy for innovative models of team-based care.
  • Oversees the development/revision of standardized procedures for APPs to ensure safe, efficient, and high[1]quality care within the APP scope of practice.
  • Uses a systematic process to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate new programs in conjunction with division/service physicians and hospital and clinic leadership.
  • Fosters continuously process improvement to achieve and maintain quality patient care.
• CLINICAL OUTCOMES
  • Assures the delivery of quality and cost-effective patient care by working collaboratively with the APPs in the practice. Identify and develop process and outcome metrics specific to the practice environments to ensure the highest quality of care and patient satisfaction. Ensure the competition of focused/ongoing professional-practice evaluation with appropriate leadership.
  • Develops structured APP associated metrics for assessing productivity and outcomes of APP quality of care and use data to identify and implement changes to optimize care.
  • In collaboration with senior leadership, explores, recommends, develops and implements new opportunities to optimize clinical care and enable better utilization of APPs.
  • Works closely with physicians, patient care directors and vice presidents to assess and improve the division/service performance and incorporates continuous performance improvement into operations.
  • Collaborates with UT Southwestern stakeholders as well as partner organizations (i.e. Joint Pediatric Enterprise, Texas Health Resources, Parkland, etc.)
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Identifies specific needs for self-development and implements a plan to achieve professional growth and networking to best represent Office of Advanced Practice.
  • Promotes the professional growth of APPs through coaching, mentoring and support. Create a pipeline of talent to meet current/future needs by promoting APP clinical rotations. Develops and fosters relationships with PA/APRN training programs and collaborates with Nursing Professional Development on academic affiliations within schools to support APP placements.
  • Ensures a strong partnership with UT Southwestern Academic Affairs departments and specifically the Physician Assistant Program in accomplishing its academic mission and strengthen the APP pipeline.
  • Facilitates leadership education and development to APP Leaders and APPs by establishing guidelines and financial resources for professional development, education, and research.
  • Represents the function and all APPs, ensuring that they are included in multi-disciplinary activities by chairing or serving as members of various committees that contribute to the organization’s excellent clinical care.
  • Develops and oversees a comprehensive orientation/onboarding/mentorship and wellness program for APPs.
  • Oversees and maintain a fellowship program for APPs including accreditation and maintenance.
• QUALITY AND REGULATORY
  • Maintains/updates policies and procedures relating to the practice of the APPs.
  • Manages patient care, human resources, systems, and workflow processes to achieve and maintain a budget neutral status.
  • Reviews and serves as a content expert related to State Boards of Nursing, Medicine, Texas Administrative Code, and other regulations to ensure compliance.
  • Coordinates the billing practices in conjunction with the Managed Care and Compliance Departments, as well as with medical group practices.
  • Recommends space and other resources needed by the division’s service.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Work requires knowledge of professional nursing theory, clinical practice standards, medical practice guidelines, and scope of APP roles. 
• Work requires the ability to provide leadership and promote change in a positive manner that supports all employees of the department and health system. 
• Work requires the ability to independently seek out resources and solve complex problems. 
• Work requires telephone and personal contact with all levels of internal and external personnel and organizations. 
• Work requires ability to prepare reports and presentations. 
• Work requires ability to use a personal computer and proficiency in using standard business software applications and ability to quickly learn new software programs. 
• Work requires knowledge of the principles and practices of leadership and management, including planning, organizing, directing, motivating, controlling and decision making; organization and operation of hospitals; standards and requirements relating to compliance with external regulatory, accrediting, and certifying bodies for assigned programs/areas of responsibility; principles and practices of human resources management, employee relations, organizational behavior, program planning, and financial management.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

Physical Demands: Handling, Talking 
Working Conditions: Office Setting

PACT STATEMENT
The following is the acronym, “PACT”, and is fundamental to all clinical positions at UT Southwestern Medical Center:
• P-Problem Solving: To achieve excellence in patient care and service, all employees are expected to take ownership in solving problems effectively, efficiently and to the satisfaction of the patient.
• A-Ability, Attitude and Appearance: In keeping with a professional healthcare environment, all employees are expected to have the ability to perform their jobs and to appear and conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner.
• C-Communications and Compassion: It is our goal that all our communications are clear, courteous, timely, and delivered with compassion, respect and appropriate confidentiality.
• T-Teamwork: In our medical environment, our patients regard every employee they encounter as a member of the Southwestern Medical Center team. Our goal is to individually work hard to contribute to our team, support our co-workers, and to achieve not only excellent patient care and service, but also a satisfying, caring environment for each other.

Salary
Salary Negotiable

Security
This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code 51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. To the extent this position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Section 113.001(2) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code, the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the critical infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired and to continue to be employed in the position.

EEO Statement
UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.