Clinical Consultant IV Tustin, CA

As part of SCAL Regional Medical Transportation Services, this position will collaborate with KFH and PMG stakeholders, Transportation vendors, and subject matter experts to ensure safe, reliable scheduled medical rides for KP members. Leveraging data, process improvement, strategic thought partnership, and project/program management skills, this high visibility position will partner closely with Senior Leaders and and serve as a strategic senior level program and vendor manager to drive the successful implementation of complex initiatives, strategies and projects for the Medical Transportation Services program.

This individual will conduct comprehensive assessments of vendors, identify opportunities for optimizing operational efficiencies, enhance financial sustainability, and participate/lead in change management activities. This position requires regular travel to Kaiser Permanente facilities and external vendor sites.

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
  
  Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines;
  
  identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Serves as a consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive successful initiatives and projects within care delivery or clinical settings across one or more technical areas or work streams by making significant contributions and/or providing leadership to high visibility projects to identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the organization; identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders and team members;
  
  building rapport and partnerships with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management to produce results that are outcome driven; working with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; discussing involvement of key processes (e.g. quality management, project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for the delivery of initiatives; communicating tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent perspective;
  
  developing written materials for senior management, executives and other key clients; and making formal presentations and providing reports to…