Associate Chief Medical Officer

Job description

Who We Are

Imagine Pediatrics is a tech enabled, pediatrician led medical group reimagining care for children with special health care needs. We deliver ²⁴⁄₇ virtual first and in home medical, behavioral, and social care, working alongside families, providers, and health plans to break down barriers to quality care. We do not replace existing care teams; we enhance them, providing an extra layer of support with compassion, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to children with medical complexity.

What You’ll Do

As an Associate Chief Medical Officer of Imagine Pediatrics, you will report directly to the Chief Medical Officer. You will partner with market, regional and centralized leaders to oversee our digitally integrated and in-home care model to children with special healthcare needs. You will be responsible for leading our provider teams in our markets and regions and setting the standards of clinical quality, safety, and patient and provider satisfaction. In addition you will:

Clinical Leadership & Quality Oversight

• Oversee the quality and safety of all clinical care provided by physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, therapists, care team assistants, and other clinical staff across both virtual and on the ground staff
• Implement Imagine Pediatrics’ clinical protocols, standards of care, and evidence-clinical programming specific to our pediatric population with special healthcare needs
• Review quality dashboards with medical directors and partner with quality and safety team members to improve metrics and outcomes while meeting safety standards
• Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal Medicaid regulations, payor requirements, and credentialing standards

Team Management & Provider Engagement

• Support and oversee clinical recruitment, onboarding, development, and mentoring.
• Responsible for ensuring the clinical workforce is meeting/exceeding performance expectations and delivering on the clinical programming set forth by the CoE.
• Serve as a feedback loop to CoE for program refinement/optimization
• Develop and nurture internal clinical team members who are skilled in critical thinking, effective team collaboration, and conflict resolution to ensure our values are upheld and lived every day.
•  executives
• Lead other people leaders, including medical directors and other market leadership by always embodying the Imagine Pediatrics values and championing a culture of collaborative care
• Enable clinical staff to master data-driven tools and practices to provide holistic, whole person care to both patients and their care givers
• Educate teams and promote a value-based, community driven care approach across all touchpoints with internal and external providers and stakeholders

Strategic & Operational Support

• Support organizational-wide initiatives that impact the care model including: medical management, utilization management, clinical compliance and policy development
• Capture and synthesize data from the market to improve the use of virtual care platforms, creating a strong feedback loop between the market and CoE around clinical product development, data and other shared service teams.
• Support Market Medical Directors in market as needed to support regional growth initiatives, partnerships, and other Imagine Pediatrics community initiatives with external partners.
• Externally facing:
• Regular presenter and attendee to our client facing Joint Operating Committee meetings and other sessions.
• Plan, present, and support our business development goals with our executive team

What You Bring & How You Qualify

First and foremost, you’re passionate and committed to reimagining pediatric health care and creating a world where every child with special healthcare needs gets the care and support they deserve.

• MD/ DO, from an Accredited Program.
• Board certified in Pediatrics AND/OR Internal Medicine-Pediatrics.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in outpatient practice.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a physician management role or role as medical director, managing other medical directors and clinical teams.
• Currently holds or able to obtain multistate licensure in states we are/will be operating in.

What We Offer (Benefits + Perks)

We offer a competitive compensation package in addition to a competitive company benefits package and eligibility to participate in an employee equity purchase program (as applicable). When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors including job-related knowledge, skills and experience. These considerations may cause your compensation to vary.

We provide these additional benefits and perks:

• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
• Unlimited PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Additional benefits to be detailed in offer

What We Live By

We’re guided by our five core values:

Our Values:

• Children First. We put the best interests of children above all. We know that the right decision is always the one that creates more safe days at home for the children we serve today and in the future.
• Earn Trust. We listen first, speak second. We build lasting relationships by creating shared understanding and consistently following through on our commitments.
• Innovate Today. We believe that small improvements lead to big impact. We stay curious by asking questions and leveraging new ideas to learn and scale.
• Embrace Humanity. We lead with empathy and authenticity, presuming competence and good intentions. When we stumble, we use the opportunity to grow and understand how we can improve.
• One Team, Diverse Perspectives. We actively seek a range of viewpoints to achieve better outcomes. Even when we see things differently, we stay aligned on our shared mission and support one another to move forward — together.

We Value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

We believe that creating a world where every child with complex medical conditions gets the care and support, they deserve requires a diverse team with diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People seeking employment at Imagine Pediatrics are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or characteristics (or those of a family member), pregnancy or other status protected by applicable law.