Director, Medical Staff Administration - Fountain Valley​/Placentia Linda

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Position Summary: The Director, Medical Staff is responsible for the operational leadership, administrative oversight, and coordination of all medical staff functions within the assigned facility or facilities, including credentialing, privileging, peer review, and medical staff governance support. The incumbent is accountable for ensuring the accurate, efficient, and compliant administration of all medical staff processes in alignment with regulatory, accreditation, and organizational standards, including The Joint Commission, California Medical Staff Services Association, and applicable state and federal requirements.

This role maintains responsibility for the development and implementation of medical staff policies and procedures, quality assurance and performance improvement initiatives, and ongoing evaluation of medical staff operations to ensure compliance and best practices within the assigned facility or facilities. The Director provides direct oversight to medical staff services coworkers across all assigned functional areas and is responsible for the selection, orientation, training, performance management, and professional development of all assigned coworkers.

This position collaborates with the Chief Medical Officer, physician leadership, legal counsel, compliance, and administrative leadership to support medical staff governance, credentialing integrity, and organizational risk management. The Director reports to the VP, System Director, or Regional Director, exercising wide latitude of authority in managing facility-level medical staff operations and the execution of established departmental objectives with limited oversight.

Required Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of MS Office products
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to plan strategically
• Strong Knowledge of Joint Commission JCAHO, NCQA, and Title 22 regulations
• Must possess the skill, knowledge and ability essential to the successful performance of assigned duties
• Must demonstrate customer service skills appropriate to the job
• Minimum of 5 years experience in credentialing medical staff
• Minimum of 1 year experience in an management leadership role
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of progressive management responsibility
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Demonstrated understanding of medical terminology
• CPCS and/or CPMSM Certified
• Ability to persuade or influence people to take appropriate action
• Ability to maintain a work pace appropriate to the workload
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across the Health…