Manager, Ophthalmic Service, Retina_ Neuro Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Miami, FL

The University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, has an exciting full time opportunity for Manager, Ophthalmic Service, Retina Neuro. The Ophthalmic Service Manager is responsible for managing and supporting various clinical specialties, programs, and initiatives. An employee in this position oversees administrative staff responsible for resolving patients’, physicians’, and staff’s concerns. They must also analyze clinical data, prepare reports and presentations for clinical and operational leadership, and lead initiatives in support of department growth and process optimization.

The incumbent exercises considerable independent judgment and discretion in managing and carrying out daily activities while adhering to policies and procedures.

• Provides administrative support, oversight, issue resolution, and coordination for all assigned specialties, programs, and projects.

• Directly supervises support staff assigned to clinical specialties and providers in effort to maintain consistent provider support and coordination of patient care activities.

• Ensures all managed staff provide an appropriate level of support to their providers and patients which requires continuous evaluation, mentorship, education sessions, and performance management.

• This includes, but is not limited to, response time, issue resolution, efficient and adequate use and understanding of the EMR, patient portal, scheduling (visit types, templates, appointment changes, appointment documentation, etc.), and the facilitation of all appointment variations (onsite, virtual, and hybrid).

• Develops effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training materials for all primary department functions and ensures adoption by staff.

• Supports clinical service line expansion initiatives through business proposal development, financial analysis, and industry research.

• Manages implementations and documents project plans, timelines, workflows, action items, and status updates for all clinical service related projects such as new technologies and processes to improve operations, provider/staff productivity, and patient care/satisfaction.

• Develops reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor and address areas of opportunity with provider productivity, clinic cycle times, patient volumes, wait times, appointment lead times, slot utilization, no show rate, hourly/daily/weekly schedule balance, etc.

• Implements and monitors processes and technology to fully track and improve staff productivity and performance.

• Monitors patient satisfaction scores for assigned service/providers and designs initiatives for continuous improvement.

• Facilitates monthly meetings per assigned service to present consolidated data across all sites and providers on service performance and priority initiatives to include timely distribution of agendas and minutes as well as continuous follow up on all actionable items between meetings.

• Coordinates onboarding and orientation of new faculty, residents, fellows, and attending providers to include schedule development, clinic space/support staff allocation, administrative office assignment, and ordering of office supplies such as computer, phone, phone number, etc.

• Proactively assesses patient volumes and clinic flow among assigned specialties, improves the distribution of patient assignments to promote efficiency, and escalates patient scheduling issues to facilitate optimization of scheduling templates.

• Ensures patient concerns are documented and addressed in a timely and professional manner.

• Develops and monitors provider In-Basket reports for all assigned providers and staff to ensure timely and appropriate resolution.

• Communicates data to providers to inform their practices such as lead time to appointments, schedule instructions, order signing, etc.

• Oversees the coordination of faculty schedules to include vacation/meeting requests, clinic cancellations/add-ons, surgery, on-call coverage and resident/fellow schedules and ensures provider schedule software (QGenda) is update. Ensures providers have the appropriate support for clinical activities to resolve any delays and guides patients as needed through each step…