University of California San Diego

Director, Occupational Health - 141641

Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or related field with 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Strong clinic/center management experience with expertise in practice management, regulatory compliance, and customer-service methods.
  • Progressive experience in incident reporting, accreditation requirements, and information technology for clinic/center administration.

Responsibilities

  • Design and oversee financial processes for clinic performance including revenues and costs.
  • Direct clinical and operational functions, optimizing resources for delivery of services.
  • Review and approve proposals for facility expansion and staffing needs.
  • Manage employee recruitment, performance evaluations, and staff development.
  • Analyze information systems for quality and efficiency, proposing modifications as needed.
  • Develop patient service standards and metrics to foster a culture of service excellence.
  • Implement operational performance improvement strategies impacting marketability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Retirement plans and pension options.
  • Supportive work environment focused on service excellence.
Full Job Description
Payroll Title:
AMBUL CARE ADMSTN MGR 2 Department:
FP COEM Hiring Pay Scale
$165,350 - $198,100 / Year Worksite:
Lightwave Avenue Appointment Type:
Career Appointment Percent:
100% Union:
Uncovered Total Openings:
1 Work Schedule:
Days, Monday-Friday

#141641 Director, Occupational Health
Filing Deadline: Tue 10/13/2026
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DESCRIPTION

Directs the operations and program planning for Occupational healthcare clinics and/or centers; develops plans to optimize practices and resources, people, space, time, and equipment. Oversees through subordinate Managers a large department or multiple smaller units, OR manages a highly specialized technical function/team. Has significant responsibility to achieve broadly stated goals through subordinate Managers. Determines objectives, directs programs, develops strategies and policies, manages human, financial, and physical resources, and functions with a high degree of autonomy. Proactively assesses risk to establish systems and procedures to protect organizational assets. Determines strategies for a program with organization-wide impact.

Key Responsibilities:
• Designs and oversees a financial process that provides a comprehensive view of current and forecasted clinic performance, to include revenues, costs, industry trends, and reimbursements. Ensures an infrastructure for central coordination of the clinics and/or centers financial operating budgets. Reviews and approves fiscal planning proposals for new programs and budgets.
• Directs the clinical and operational functions and staff. Recommends allocation of staff, space, equipment, and other resources to optimize the delivery of clinical services. Oversees implementation of quality improvement plans. Ensures compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Reviews and approves proposals for facilities expansion, satellite development, construction, space planning, capital equipment requests, and staffing needs. Researches and prepare proposals for expansion, satellite development, construction and space planning.
• Responsible for employee recruitment, performance evaluation, progressive discipline, and staff development. Works collaboratively with Labor Relations on bargaining unit issues and contract negotiations at the local level.
• Analyzes functionality, quality, and efficiency of information systems from a best practices standpoint. Creates and utilizes analytics to track and assess clinic performance. Proposes modifications or new systems as needed.
• Develops and implements patient service standards and metrics, based on best practices. Develops managers to create a workplace culture with a focus on service excellence and employee empowerment for creativity, efficiency, engagement, quality of care, ingenuity, safety, and innovations in operations.
• Develops processes and analytics to assure viability of existing programs and practice patterns, and optimize productivity, Reviews and approves proposals for operational performance improvement projects that impact marketability.
• Assure internal policies and external regulations are followed across the clinic organization in regards to billing and coding practices and cash handling.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration or related area and eight or more years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of experience, education and training.
  • Strong clinic/center management experience, with progressive expertise in practice management, scheduling, customer-service methods, incident reporting, regulatory compliance, accreditation requirements, information technology, and the policies, principles, best practices, and standards involved with effective clinic/center administration.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Five or more years of manager or higher-level leadership experience of ambulatory healthcare operations/clinics.
  • Oversight of multiple ambulatory clinic locations/sites
  • Leadership experience in Occupational Health services
  • Leadership of Same Day Care Services such as Urgent Care, Express Care or Minute Clinics
  • Experience with attracting new corporate clients into Occupational Medicine Program
  • Lean Six Sigma certification and experience leading change
  • Current UC San Diego employee
SPECIAL CONDITIONS
  • Must be able to work various hours and locations based on business needs.
  • Employment is subject to a criminal background check and pre-employment physical.
Pay Transparency Act

Annual Full Pay Range: $136,600 - $267,600 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $65.42 - $128.16

Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Annual Full Pay Range may be broader than what the University anticipates to pay for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable).

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About University of California San Diego

The University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the seventh-oldest of the 10 University of California campuses and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling approximately 38,325 students. UC San Diego is organized into six undergraduate residential colleges (Revelle, John Muir, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sixth College) and five academic divisions (Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Jacobs School of Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences). The university operates 19 organized research units (ORUs), including the Center for Energy Research, Qualcomm Institute (a branch of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
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