Kaiser Permanente

Assistant Operations Manager - Imaging Services MRI CT

Kaiser Permanente$98K — $127K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-3 years in a leadership role, direct reports not necessary.
  • 1 year in customer or member/patient service.
  • Associate degree in business, nursing, health care, or related field; or 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is preferred.
  • Experience in project/program management is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise ambulatory operations to optimize patient care and achieve organizational goals.
  • Support team development through mentorship and performance feedback.
  • Coordinate daily activities, ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.
  • Manage human resources tasks, including recruitment and training.
  • Facilitate emergency preparedness and compliance readiness activities.
  • Implement performance metrics to enhance operational efficiency and care quality.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive training and professional development programs.
  • Opportunity for performance management and feedback-driven growth.
  • Emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
  • Support for work-life balance with fixed day shifts.
  • Engagement in strategic projects that impact patient care and services.
Full Job Description
Job Summary:

Supervises ambulatory operations to optimize patient care and support organizational goals. Builds and maintains utilization and productivity reports to achieve performance targets. Supervises human resources, including orientation, education, disciplinary procedures, and training. Conducts survey readiness activities, budget management, and payroll administration. Ensures standardized care delivery by supporting work streams with significant impact. Supports data analysis to align strategies and develop plans. Coordinates resources to ensure proper assignment and utilization. Supervises multidisciplinary clinical teams and emergency preparedness programs. Contributes to improving operations and technology processes and implements performance metrics with department initiatives.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Recommends developmental opportunities for others; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides team members with feedback; and mentors and coaches to drive performance improvement. Pursues professional growth; provides training and development to talent for growth opportunities; supports execution of performance management guidelines and expectations. Implements, adapts, and stays up to date with organizational change, challenges, feedback, best practices and processes. Fosters open dialogue, supports, mentors, engages, and motivates team members on collaboration. Delegates tasks and decisions as appropriate; provides appropriate support, guidance and scope.
  • Supervises and coordinates daily activities of designated work team or unit by monitoring the execution and completion of tactical action items and work assignments; ensures all policies and procedures are followed. Aligns team efforts and standards, and measures progress in achieving results; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; resolves escalated issues as appropriate. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; identifies and recommends improvement opportunities; influences teams to execute in alignment with operational objectives.
  • Supervises ambulatory operations to support patient care by:facilitating team, meetings and/or management decisions and identifying action items, keeping into consideration compliance timelines and financial commitments; using and providing feedback on standard utilization and productivity reports to achieve performance targets; interpreting data and taking action; supervising human resources including recruitment and selection and promoting active recruitment, and implementing the orientation and employee management; conducting survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and delivering requested audit documentation, information, and reports; and assuming accountability for maintaining their teams budget and expenditures and entering payroll.
  • Ensures standardized care delivery by: supporting large and/or complex work streams with significant program impact; supervising data collection and using data to inform the development and implementation of plans; coordinating and monitoring daily operational activities involving patient care management; coordinating resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; supervising multidisciplinary ambulatory team(s); helping implement emergency preparedness programs and ensuring the teams emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and coaching the team and monitoring implementation and delivery on objectives.
  • Supervises improvements to patient-centered operations and technology processes by: planning the work of teams on strategic projects designed to remediate issues and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; responding to escalations to improve the performance of operations system processes; and implementing performance metrics to track the success of strategic improvement projects.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
  • Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Business Knowledge
  • Communication
  • Constructive Feedback
  • Critical Thinking
  • Cross-Group Collaboration
  • Decision Making
  • Dependability
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
  • Drives Results
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Health Care Industry
  • Influencing Others
  • Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Learning Agility
  • Organizational Savvy
  • Problem Solving
  • Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Team Building
  • Teamwork
  • Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
  • Confidentiality
  • Training

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum one (1) year of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Minimum one (1) year of customer or member/patient service experience.
  • Associates degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field OR Minimum three (3) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
  • One (1) year of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.


Primary Location: California,Redwood City,Redwood City Hospital
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Team Leader/Supervisor
Department: Redwood City Hospital - Radiology-General - 0206
Pay Range: $98300 - $127160 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: Yes, 50 % of the Time
On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

About Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente is a healthcare organization that provides health insurance and medical care to members in several states across the United States. The organization was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Oakland, California. Kaiser Permanente operates hospitals, medical centers, and clinics, and offers a range of services including primary care, specialty care, and emergency care. The organization is known for its integrated healthcare model, which combines health insurance and medical care in a single system. Kaiser Permanente is also committed to promoting health equity and addressing social determinants of health, such as housing and food insecurity.
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