Position Highlights:

• Position: Vice President, Physician Engagement, Development & Wellbeing

• Location: May home-base at an Endeavor location and travel as needed.

• Full time

• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

• Required travel: Regular travel between Endeavor Health's acute care hospitals as needed.

Job Summary:

The Physician Vice President for Engagement, Development, and Well-Being (Physician Vice President) partners with administrative and clinical leadership across the system to advance physician /APP engagement, development, and well-being.  This role also leads the physician/APP patient experience strategy and performance. This role will partner with the leaders of HR Centers of Expertise in Talent Development & Learning and Team Member Experience & Engagement and the Lead HRBP for EHMG and their teams on the strategy and architecture of programs and provide input and advise on the design, development, implementation, and programs tailored to support physician/APP development, engagement, and well-being across Endeavor Health.  The Physician Vice President will also deliver content and at times recruit other physician leaders to deliver content that is part of the overall learning portfolio for physicians/APPs.   This role will also serve as a key liaison to the Endeavor Health Medical Group and Endeavor Health Physician Partners Governance Committees for quality, engagement, development and wellbeing. This role will confer with EHMG and System Physician Executives & NS Clinical Chairs and Acute and Ambulatory Physician & APP Leadership in order to ensure diverse perspectives are included in shaping program design and implementation.  This role will also coordinate with physician and administrative leadership in EHPP and in Endeavor hospitals and institutes and service lines to ensure our engagement and strategies include our affiliated and acute care physicians in meaningful and impactful ways. 

This role will partner with the Learning and Development Center of Expertise and serve as a key member of the System Learning Council that will be led by talent management function.  In this capacity this role will provide key insights in programmatic development for physician/APP leaders as part of the portfolio of development opportunities offered across the organization.  This connection recognizes that some dimensions of development and growth are universal and others need to be tailored to the specific opportunities that physicians may have to develop as leaders and collaborators.

This role is a critical role that co-leads and ensures all of the organizational programs that advance team member engagement, development and well-being have elements that are relevant to physicians and APPs and that physician/APP metrics in these areas are improving and achieving organizational goals.

This role will include 70-80% capacity in a VP, Physician Engagement, Development & Wellbeing role and 20-25% direct patient care role.

What you will do:

1. Serve as the dyad partner with leadership in HR across team member engagement, talent development, and well-being.  Effectively advise the physician talent team embedded in the HR Team, so that the work is focused and drives the outcomes for physician development and engagement.

2. Serve as the organizational subject matter expert on physician/APP engagement, development, and well-being and ensure that these insights are integrated into the organization’s overall people strategy.

3. Work with the Chief Clinical Officer to identify organizational learning opportunities that advance the organization’s quality and patient safety outcomes. This role identifies opportunities appropriate for greater discussion at the organizational Learning Council.

4. Work with the CPE, EHMG Physician Executives and EHMG Governance Committees to identify innovative and impactful strategies to advance engagement and leadership development and work the leaders in HR to determine their feasibility and alignment with broader organizational programs.

5. Continue to advance, in partnership with HR, The CPE and CCO our engagement measurement strategy, specifically ensuring that the measurement strategy is appropriate for unique needs of physicians/APPs and that analysis and communication effectively support improved physician/APP engagement.

7. Evolve measurement systems to a culture of responsible transparency and continuous improvement.

8. Advise and co-lead with HR leadership, the implementation of physician/APP focused leadership development programs that support development of physician leaders across the system and within the medical groups in particular in interpreting and action planning around engagement measurement data in their area of focus to support enhanced physician engagement. 

9. Participate in analysis of system and entity engagement data to identify broad opportunities and unique cohorts to improve physician engagement and ensure that physician engagement efforts are also viewed through a lens of equity.

10. Work with key stakeholder to apply process improvement methodology to identify drivers of physician/ APP engagement and work with key partners to create the roadmap of identified improvements that aligns with our MVV, System Strategies and Priorities

11. Advise and co-lead the implementation of a system strategy for orientation and onboarding of physicians and APPs that creates a foundation of physician and APP engagement, working with CMOs for the elements that connect to acute care and affiliated physicians who are on staff across the system.

12. Actively work to enhance physician engagement by creating opportunities for physicians and APPs to feel seen, heard and included in decisions that impact them and their patients. These venues could include focus groups, practice-based visits or other activities that lead to direct conversations and feedback.

13. Work with Physician/APP and HR leaders to develop and co-lead meaningful and clinically relevant training and development opportunities that foster physician engagement.

14. Partner with the Talent Development Lead to architect leadership training opportunities for physicians /APP and aligned to our system leadership principles and essential behaviors.  Where appropriate deliver content in physician leadership development and communication training and develop robust evaluation strategies to measure the impact of these activities.

15. Serve as the organizational physician patient experience leader, working with the system patient experience team to support patient experience efforts across the continuum and accelerate improvement of physician-related metrics related to patient experience.

16. In partnership with the HR Lead for Physician Engagement and Experience - advise acute care patient experience leadership on tactics to improve physician engagement in patient experience improvement activities across the system.

17.  Identify opportunities for care standardization, so that non-value-added variation is reduced and engagement is supported

18.  Ensure that action items developed through improvement activities are built into the engagement roadmap, implemented and their impact is measurable with a blend of both outcome and process metrics.

19.  Support focus on creation of a culture of safety partnering to align engagement tactics in support of this focus and ensuring that all members of the health care team (including the patient and family) feel that their voices are heard. 

20.  Model Endeavor Health Essential Behaviors and organizational standards to promote quality, patient safety, and enhanced experiences of care.

21.  Participate in training in QI tools and approaches so these are consistently deployed across the organization.

22.  Participate in initiatives to further process improvement and patient experience training and education across the organization.

23.  Participate in appropriate engagement, Well-being, experience, learning and leadership and quality “governance” groups as a leading voice in shaping our discussion related to patient experience and physician engagement.

Other duties as assigned.

What you will need:

• MD or DO required, with appropriate clinical licensure and credentialing for the State of Illinois.
• Coaching certification, Hogan Assessment certification, AAPL, or certified wellbeing practitioner highly preferred.
• Qualified candidates will have 15+ years as a practicing clinical with 8+ years in a physician leadership role.
• 5+ years leading key areas of physician engagement, development and wellbeing is preferred.