This is a senior leadership position, responsible for the oursourced Clinical Engineering function with direct responsibility for the administration of the Clinical Engineering outsourced contracts, capital program and day to day operational escalations. This individual is responsible for the strategic planning and standardization of Jefferson Health's clinical engineering program. The incumbent ensures that
the Clinical Engineering strategy
is in alignment with enterprise business strategy.
Enforces departmental processes and procedures for change management, incident management, configuration management, and downtime management.
Ensures that all systems placed into production have support plans, SLAs, and conform to departmental best practices. Ensures prompt operating failure recovery and prevention including 7x24 monitoring and support
Serve as the senior leader of clinical engineering responsible for all clinical engineering support through the outsourcing vendor
Provide ongoing triage of incoming escalations to outsurced vendor including adjudication and redirection of teams onsite
Manage the yearly Capital appropriation in collaborate in collaboration with clinical stakeholder group (CTAC)
Manage the outsourced contract spend ensuring adherence to the outsourced agreement, provide forecasting, and minimize any overages.
Manage clinical engineering projects, e.g. smart pump rollout, and related special projects. e.g. RTLS for moveable equipment
Develop and continually optimize a long-term biomed strategy
OTHER FUNCTIONS AND COMPETENCIES
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Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies in clinical engineering
Manage the day to day operations, escalations, and executive engagement of biomed inclusive of the outsource relationship
Play a lead and facilitator role for all the biomed interaction with the CTAC including tactical/operational needs, escalations and engagement, as well a multiyear capital strategy planning for biomed devices
Provide regular written and verbal updates at all appropriate clinical and operational meetings where biomed is required to make updates
As applicable, look for opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness, including ensuring outsourcing vendor is held to their contracted SLAs
Play a program oversight role for the major clinical projects
Ensure there is effective management reporting over the clinical engineering capital portfolio
Ability to translate business needs into requirements and estimate the financial impact of alternatives
Capable and comfortable with balancing time between foundational (ensures efficiency and predictability) and strategic efforts
Organizationally savvy, and understanding of the political climate of the enterprise and how to navigate obstacles and politics, Influential in the organization and a team player. Understand and speak the language of the business
Ability to organize time, work independently and accomplish tasks despite frequent interruptions.
Ability to clearly communicate, verbally and in writing, detailed plans and instructions to a variety of audiences. Ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with the public, co-workers, other employees, departments, officials and other agencies. Ability to effectively communicate with large groups of people.
Ability to maintain high-level confidential and strategic information.
In conjunction with the leadership, the solution center, and IT staff, provides continuous on-call coverage for mobility services. May be required to help coordinate emergency restoration activities.
Performs special projects and related responsibilities as initiated and requested.
Performs other related duties as required, directed or as the situation dictates.
Qualifications
EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIREMENTS :
Bachelor's degree in business, business, clinical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study. Master's Degree preferred.
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CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATION
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Clinical Engineering certificates or memberships.
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EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
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Seven plus years of progressively responsible experience in the operational & strategic aspects of the clinical engineering.Significant experience managing large outsource contracts
Closing Statement
Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.
Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.
Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.
Jefferson's mission, vision and values create an organization that attracts the best and the brightest students, faculty, staff, and healthcare professionals, as well as the most visionary leaders to drive exceptional results.
OUR MISSION:
We improve lives.
OUR VISION:
Reimagining health, education and discovery to create unparalleled value
OUR VALUES:
Put People First, Be Bold & Think Differently and Do the Right Thing
As an employer, Jefferson maintains a commitment to provide equal access to employment. Jefferson values diversity and encourages applications from women, members of minority groups, LGBTQ individuals, disabled individuals, and veterans.
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