Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital (HDVCH) offers an excellent opportunity for a full-time BC/BE Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to lead in the role of Section Chief. Reporting to the system division chief of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, the section chief leads psychiatrists and APPs in their inpatient and outpatient roles. As section chief, you would maintain a clinical practice and have dedicated time to lead your team, partner with the operational manager, and collaborate with section chef of pediatric psychology. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience and has practiced within a children's hospital system.

The growing HDVCH multidisciplinary team includes child psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, pediatric psychologists, and behavioral medicine physicians among others. Our large patient population is served through consult-liaison services, outpatient consult bridge clinic, outpatient practice, and our autism center of excellence. A 12-bed med psych unit is slated to open in 2024.

We offer 90-minute evaluations and 30-minute outpatient follow ups with comprehensive psychology, psychotherapy and nursing support for your practice. Our position can support a H1b visa candidate.

As the prime pediatric clinical academic partner of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital offers teaching opportunities and academic appointments for qualified candidates.

About HDVCH:

Ranked in 8 specialties (2020-21) by the US News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital is a state-of-the-art, globally integrated, 236-bed free standing dedicated children’s hospital located on the main campus of Spectrum Health. Annually, there are approximately 8760 inpatient and 124,600 ambulatory visits, as well as over 55,185 children seen in the Pediatric Emergency Department (Level 1 Trauma rated). HDVCH also has one of the nation’s largest Level 4 NICU’s with 108-beds.

About Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan with a growing metro area population of over 1 million people. It has been recently identified by Forbes as the #1 best city to raise a family based on cost of living, housing affordability, commute and education. In 2022, US News ranked Grand Rapids 16th best place to live in the United States out of 150 metro areas.

Grand Rapids is also home to ArtPrize, concert and theater venues, museums, Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, city owned parks, and is located just 30 minutes away from the beautiful west Michigan lakeshore.

Essential Functions

• LeadershipDemonstrate personal character• Uphold, by example and by coaching, the Code of Excellence of the Spectrum Health Medical Group• Act at all times in a fiduciary role for the Medical Group, the System, and on behalf of our patientsSustain clinical leadership• Demonstrate a high level of skill, expertise and experience in patient care processes.• Have and use a broad and deep knowledge base that is contemporary with the latest medical scientific evidence.• Lead by example in the development of an evidence-based, multidisciplinary care approach.Set the direction for the Practice• Communicates a clear vision• Demonstrates an understanding of community and patient needs and expectations• Aligns his/her performance and enlists the commitment and performance of others to attain the envisioned future stateMobilize individual commitment• Builds collaborative relationships through support and encouragement, rather than through criticism• Demonstrates willingness and ability to share power and control• Listens• Demonstrates willingness and ability to involve others and elicit participation• Empowers and engages colleagues and associates, and strengthens them by sharing power and information• Creates opportunities for people to contribute their strongest personal talents to the team effort• Coach, mentor, and educate other physicians, residents, fellows, nurses and staff towards the effective implementation of the means to reach the targets and goals of the Division/program.• Identify clear expectations for performance and hold physician accountable for their actions.• Consistently provide open feedback, with clear, direct and concise information to support personal performance.Engender organizational capability• Build organizational infrastructure by demonstrating formal leadership capable of integrating, resourcing, and orchestrating activities of various project teams• Align the organization with its strategy• Fully commit to the long-term strategy of building a valuable organization• Leverage diversity by resolving conflicts diplomatically and identifying a common ground• Advocate partnering and collaboration as preferred styles of behavior• Develop the various strengths in colleagues and associates• Deploy and develop teams through cross-fertilization of best practices and provision of frequent feedback that helps improve team performance• Support the design and development of human resources systems, including especially performance management and training and development• Make change happen as a catalyst and manager of strategic change, especially by using the inputs and ideas of others as stimuli for change.

• GrowthAchieve focused growth of the Practice in alignment with the Medical Group strategic plan• Establish & achieve annual volume targets in respect to encounters, wRVUs, and new patient visits, as well as other growth and access targets that may be established• Ensure that barriers to physician and mid-level practitioner and employee productivity are minimized• Collaborates with executive leadership to plan, design, develop and implement strategic and annual facilities plansStrategic Planning and Implementation, including Recruitment• Participate in development of an annually updated Department strategic plan. This plan should describe enhanced program reputation and growth, and unique, innovative approaches to the achievement of superior quality, service, safety and financial outcomes.• Participate in the development of a plan for adequate resources to achieve the short term and long term strategic goals and objectives of the Department/program, including growth and new program development.• As appropriate, develop research goals and implementation plan including integration with clinical initiatives• Participates in development of orientation for new physicians• Participates in the orientation for new physicians of the Division and Clinical Site• Contributes to the development of current Physicians

• Quality, Safety and Clinical Innovation• Ensure that those within your section meet federal and state regulatory requirements, as well as accreditation standards• Ensure that those within your section meet all payer contract requirements in respect to quality incentives and obligations• Ensure that those within your section evaluate and improve the performance of its professional staff and care teams compared to current standards of care of the community and of the professional societies• Ensure that those within your section develop and sustain a culture of safety, and establishes safety as an system property• Plan, develop and implement the section annual plan for Quality, Safety and Clinical Innovation, in support of the Medical Group’s annual plan• Lead the implementation of initiatives in evidence-based medicine and the incorporation of the methods of safety science into patient care practices, engaging all staff, especially physicians, APP’s and nurses

• Development of People• In collaboration with the Department and Division Chief, develop and implement a plan for physician leadership development• Implement a formal periodic performance evaluation of the section’s professional staff• In collaboration with the Finance Committee of the Board and its subcommittees, and with the Department and Division Chiefs, ensure equitable annual compensation of section members in their fulfillment of the clinical, administrative, teaching and research missions• Collaborate with the Department Chief and Academic Chair in the management of physician and APP performance to ensure individual physician productivity, clinical quality, positive patient perception, appropriate resource utilization, adherence to the group’s ethical and legal standards, appropriate relationship with colleagues and staff, and (as appropriate) involvement in teaching and research activities.

• Patient Service and Perception of Care• Ensure the section adopt robust measurements of patients’ perception of care and services, in alignment with the Medical Group, and that the section achieves annual performance goals for patients’ perception of care

• Finance• In collaboration with the Board and the executive team, establish the five year forecast, and annual plan of financial performance goals of the section.• Achieve the five year forecast and annual plan goals of the section through expense management and optimum revenue cycle management.• In collaboration with the Finance Committee, ensure optimum management of compliance and risk for all section members.

• Academic and Faculty AffairsIf requested by the Academic Chair of the Department,• Ensures an appropriate clinical learning environment for the training of medical students, residents, or fellows• Participates in, or supports the participation of the section’s professional staff in, faculty development programs of the Department or the MSU College of Human Medicine.

Qualifications

• Required Bachelor's Degree

• Required Doctorate MD (Doctor of Medicine) or DO (Doctor of Osteopathy)

• 1 year of relevant experience Skills, knowledge, abilities typically gained through 1+ year of related experience Required

• 1 year of relevant experience to three years experience in clinical practice, preferably in a medical group setting Required

• Experience in leading project teams and a commitment to develop as a physician leader Required

• LIC-Physician (MD) - STATE_MI State of Michigan Upon Hire required Or

• LIC-Osteopathic Physician (DO) - STATE_MI State of Michigan Upon Hire required

• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - AHA American Heart Association 90 Days required Or

• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - ARC American Red Cross 90 Days required

• CRT-Adv Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - AHA American Heart Association If required by specialty or stress test performed 120 Days required

Primary Location

SITE - 35 Michigan St - Grand Rapids

Department Name

Behavioral Health - HDVCH

Employment Type

Full time

Shift

Weekly Scheduled Hours

40

Hours of Work

8-5 with extended

Days Worked

Mon-Fri

Weekend Frequency

N/A

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