Associate Medical Director

Become a part of our caring community The Associate Medical Director (AMD) is an instrumental member of our primary care team. Combining clinical practice with leadership and operational management, the AMD ensures high-quality patient care and alignment with Value-Based Care (VBC) principles. This market/center-specific role requires changing responsibilities as needed and demands a unique blend of clinical management and strategic partnership with Market leadership. You will report to the Chief Medical Officer and you'll work on site in a clinic within the Houston Market. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Leadership & Organizational Management: Understand organizational & market priorities, trends, and goals, to develop a clinical strategy to grow clinical talent and performance Interview, hire, and oversee clinical teams to staff and develop a high-quality clinical team with engagement, patient-first culture, and talent retention Work closely and communicate with clinicians and care teams, conducting weekly onsite center visits, holding regular individual 1:1's and clinician pod meetings, and participate in monthly leadership meetings. Participate in regular market performance (clinical, financial, operational) meetings on important topics such as Medical Risk Adjustment (MRA), budgeting, staffing, operational excellence, and clinical initiatives Champion our senior-focused primary care strategic vision and initiatives. Foster stakeholder relationships, including health plan partners, healthcare providers (e.g. specialists, hospitals), and social services. This will improve our community of care locally. Represent CenterWell/Conviva brands in local communities and related media activities. Collaborate with the recruitment team to build and network a pipeline of high-quality primary care clinicians, including physicians, APPs, MAs, and other clinical professionals. Clinical/Patient Management: Foster a patient-centered and value-based clinical vision, strategy, and culture locally that orients care teams around excellence in patient care, teamwork, outcomes Deliver leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable use Periodically review clinician charts to identify opportunities in care, ensuring clinical assessments are accurate and that performance improvement and coaching initiatives are precise Identify critical issues for high-risk patients during case reviews & other forums, and modeling and driving clinical excellence Conduct root cause analysis of care opportunities from both individual, team, and systems perspectives and partner with clinical and operational colleagues to improve high-reliability care as a team Ensure clinicians effectively co-manage high risk episodes of care and patients with partnered Care Integration Team (CIT) resources and programs for transitions of care management (TCM), high-risk patient management (HRPM), and social determinants of health (SDOH) efforts, improving clinical outcomes and avoidable utilization Monitor and manage daily patient care and initiatives to improve team-based key performance indicators (KPIs),