Sys VP Behavioral Health and Collaborative SL

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites, and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

The System VP, Behavioral Health and Collaborative Service Line leader will provide physician leadership for their respective Service Line. As the CommonSpirit Health system expert in their specialty, this position offers the clinical strategic framework for the Service Line. The System VP, Service Line Physician leads across the multidisciplinary care continuum for their specialty. In collaboration with their dyad partner, the system VP, and the service line administrator. They spearhead the adoption of clinical quality standards and performance improvement initiatives to reduce patient harm, optimize the cost and use of specialty-specific supplies and devices, enhance measurable outcomes, and eliminate unnecessary variation in price and quality while improving care coordination. Together, the dyads identify strategic opportunities for growth, caregiver engagement, and patient experience.

In addition to leading the Behavioral Health National Service Line, this role will also serve as the Collaborative Service Line Leader responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance to all System Collaborative Service Line Physician Leaders, ensuring they align with clinical strategy and organizational objectives. The System VP, Service Line Physician is a key member of the CommonSpirit Health clinical leadership team, directly interacting with executive leaders and contributing to the ministry becoming a system of choice through an integrated operating organization with a healthy culture built on relationships, trust, and teamwork.

This role will significantly contribute to the development and implementation of system and local strategy, transformation to a clinical enterprise, achievement of successful physician alignment strategies, achievement of patient experience and employee engagement goals, and achievement of budgets. This position works collaboratively with system, region, and market inter disciplinary teams and leads the development of behavioral health processes and clinical standards across CommonSpirit. This position will be in active clinical practice in a CommonSpirit Health community. 

Key Job Responsibilities

Collaborative Service Line Leadership

1. Oversight of Collaborative Service Line Physician Leaders
● Provide leadership, direction, and strategic guidance to all System Collaborative Service Line Physician Leaders in collaboration with CPE, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and fostering a synergistic environment across service lines. Offer strategic direction and guidance to all System Cooperative Service Line Physician Leaders, ensuring they align with organizational objectives and promote a unified, team-oriented environment across service lines. Offer strategic direction and guidance to all System Cooperative Service Line Physician Leaders, ensuring they align with organizational objectives and promote a unified, team-oriented environment across service lines. Represents the Collaborative Service lines in National Forums, Clinical Leadership Council, and to the Chief Physician Executive Officer.

Behavioral Health Physician Service Line Leadership
1. Leadership and Engagement
● Engage and inspire physicians, advanced practice providers, and clinicians through education, training, and consults.
● Engage physicians, senior leaders, and subject matter experts to identify and promulgate best and evidence-based practices in developing and implementing system initiatives and standards for care.
● Provide direction, expertise, leadership, education, vision, and strategic resources to system ministries.
● Collaborate closely with the dyad partner System Service Line Administrator.
● Provide physician leadership to the National Service Line, working with the region and market clinical (CMO, CNO, PE), operational, and dyad senior leadership on developing system priorities for clinical performance.
● Lead the organization in identifying goals and developing strategies for implementation and adoption to ensure organizational improvements and outcomes are achieved.
● Partner with service line regional dyad leadership and guide implementation where needed.

2. Quality and Performance Improvement
● Oversee the development and implementation of service line-specific quality initiatives, establishing clinical goals, and working with system teams.
● Monitor quality outcomes using balanced scorecards, identifying opportunities to implement clinical standards for care delivery across the continuum.
● Provide data, benchmarks, and analysis to improve care and outcomes.
● Provide leadership and direction on physician peer review, appropriate use criteria, and physician-specific quality initiatives.
● Identify, measure, and improve priorities for service line-specific clinical performance.

3. Collaboration and Support
● Receive support from and collaborate with key stakeholders (Strategy, Operations, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Innovation, Clinical Research Institute, Pharmacy, Advocacy, Academics, etc.).
● Collaborate with other national groups to support the development of risk-based payment models for services.
● Collaborate closely with dyads across other clinical institutes and service line specialties.

4. Care Standardization and Efficiency
● Standardize service line definition, structure, and reporting system-wide.
● Rationalize services within markets and regions to reduce internal competition.
● Inform and recommend operational best practices and efficiencies.
● Develop and provide benchmarked results and descriptive analytics to improve care.
● Standardize contracting and compensation models.

5. Strategic Growth, Planning, and Innovation
● Define and designate Centers of Excellence across the system to align strategic clinical priorities meaningfully.
● Act as a key strategy partner for driving growth, long-range strategic planning, and evaluating joint venture partners.
● Support and lead service line assessment of new technologies and innovative approaches to care delivery, ensuring patient access to leading-edge treatments.
● Bring together all modalities of treatment and care strategies for patients to create an integrated and innovative roadmap for the system.
● Participate in the care continuum to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care delivery.
● Expand service line research capabilities and access to leading clinical trials, enhancing care to the community.
● Provide leadership insights on service line-specific precision medicine strategies and approaches.
● Partner with acute telehealth services to ensure service line alignment.

6. Operational Oversight and Financial Management
● Ensure the service line contributes to the organization's growth plans and financial sustainability.
● Oversee and approve key hires, ideally ensuring the Medical Group employs clinical service line leaders.
● Lead the organization in identifying goals and developing strategies for implementation and adoption to ensure organizational improvements and outcomes are achieved.
● Engage physicians, key senior leaders, and subject matter experts in developing and implementing service line-specific system initiatives and evidence-based care.
● Partner with finance, supply chain, and pharmacy leadership to reduce device and pharmaceutical costs and provide guidance on equipment and supply selection.
● Develop and provide benchmarked results and descriptive analytics to improve care.

Required Education and Experience :

• Medical degree required; board certification in a related Behavioral Health field (needed to maintain certification for continued employment).
• Master’s in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field strongly preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the discipline with a minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible physician leadership experience in clinical behavioral health care and/or in an integrated health system

Required Licensure and Certifications :

• Medical Degree and Board Certification

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Training

• Demonstrated ability to lead multi-specialty groups of physicians, work effectively in a matrix organization.Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a dyadic leadership model
• Must be goal-oriented and able to drive multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to consensus in a matrix organization.
• Must demonstrate the ability to work across multiple geographies and develop relationships in a digital environment.
• Managing Multiple Priorities: Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
•  Conflict management: Anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
• Patient/Customer Focus: Demonstrate the patient and consumer perspective as a driving force behind actions and business decisions.
•  Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for the achievement of goals.
• Technical Competence: Demonstrates breadth and/or depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for executive leadership.
• Building Partnerships and Teamwork: Takes initiative to build strategic relationships to help achieve desired outcomes.
• Building Trust: Interacts with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization.
• Leading through Mission, Vision, and Values: This position keeps the organization’s mission, vision, and values at the forefront of associate decision-making and action.
• Judgement and Decision Making: Understands the need to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and can select and assertively communicate actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.
• Systemic Perspective: Able to utilize various methods and techniques to frame problems and situations from the perspective of their impact on the entire system, make appropriate action plans, and take the right risks.

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Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Holidays, Retirement Program, Disability Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Adoption Assistance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount Programs, Life Insurance Plans, Worker Compensation, Dress for Your Day Policy, and Voluntary Benefits.

The position is eligible for incentive pay based on company performance.