Medical Director, Ground Transport Clinical Practice

Job Description:

The Director of Medical Transport Clinical Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Ground Operations will oversee and enhance the clinical and business operations for Medical Transport EMS / Ground systems at the locations Intermountain Medical Transport serves. This role combines clinical expertise with strategic management to ensure safe, high reliability patient care and services. Responsibilities include developing and leading a team, ensuring customer satisfaction while interfacing with the compliance, quality, education and outreach teams to ensure accountability and reliability. This leader will collaborate with Medical Transport leadership and Intermountain System leadership to promote the Intermountain Health mission, vision and values in all aspects of operations.

Essential Functions

• Fosters a solutions focused team dedicated to the care and transport of patients in every community Intermountain Medical Transport services. 
• Demonstrates strategic management and clinical expertise to ensure sustainability and efficiency.
• Actively manages relationships with local Fire Agencies, Emergency Departments, hospital leaders and EMS regulatory bodies to enhance patient movement and logistics for the areas we serve. 
• Acts as a Financial Steward of the Intermountain Medical Transport EMS/Ground System.  Developing a strategic plan to reduce waste and create efficiencies across the Medical Transport Portfolio, to include standardization of supplies, equipment, and asset allocation. 
• Collaborates with and assists the Standards, Education and Logistics team to develop education and quality accountability processes to ensure high reliability evidenced based patient care delivery. 
• Collaborates with the Clinical Director of Community Based Air Services to lead and grow the rural ground program. 
• This leader will formally research, propose, and develop a patient transport and care system.  Mobile integrated health, emergent and non-emergent transport, Interfacility critical care transport and Emergency Management response will be the scope of responsibility of this leader. 

Skills

• Creative problem solving
• Community focused
• Collaboration
• Leadership
• Strategic
• Analytical Thinking
• Planning
• Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• People Management

Minimum Qualifications

• Relevant clinical licensure or certification
• Demonstrated critical care transport experience
• Registered Nurse, National Registry Paramedic or EMT.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams
• Working knowledge of critical care best practices and industry standards
• Demonstrated experience with staff development, support, and recruiting
• Familiar with all clinical and operational specialty services
• Experience with budgeting and expense control
• Ability to travel, occasionally overnight

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing, business management, healthcare management or EMS management
• Three years of EMS or critical care transport experience
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Transformation Center

Work City:

Murray

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

4

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$58.62 - $90.48

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

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Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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