Clinical Director, Neurology

Reporting to the Executive Director, you will serve as a key operational leader for Neurology clinics within the Health System, providing strategic oversight for assigned clinical disciplines across Westwood, Santa Monica, and community-based locations. This role is responsible for directing practice operations, supporting regional leadership, and partnering with physicians, practice managers, and staff to ensure exceptional patient care, operational excellence, quality outcomes, and an outstanding patient experience. You will also drive organizational performance through effective management of patient access, care coordination, clinical operations, and practice growth initiatives.

As the Clinical Director, you will lead strategic planning and infrastructure development to support the continued expansion and success of ambulatory and community practices. Responsibilities include oversight of financial performance, budgeting, revenue cycle operations, human resources, clinician onboarding and offboarding, quality and safety programs, policy implementation, and space utilization. In collaboration with executive and clinical leadership, you will foster a high-performing environment that supports innovation, clinical research, workforce development, and the delivery of world-class healthcare aligned with UCLA Health's mission and strategic objectives.

Salary Range: $132,300 - $307,100 Annual

· Master’s degree (Business Administration, Health Care Administration, Public health or related field) required or combination of education and relevant experience.

· Healthcare managerial experience required.

· Strategic leadership, planning and change management skills.

· Ability to demonstrate a high level of diplomacy in persuading and influencing a wide variety of people at various levels to achieve results.

· Previous demonstrated expertise in managing patient services and nursing staffing in environment with a high volume of patient visits.

· Strong knowledge of industry standards and/or regulatory requirements.

· Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze all pertinent information/data to make and communicate decisions to meet the unit’s current and future needs.

· Effective interpersonal skills and political acumen skills.

· Ability to establish a culture of integrity within their unit and with those external to the units.

· Strong knowledge of industry standards, trends and/or regulatory requirements.

· Excellent communication skills both oral and written.

· Skill in analyzing information, problems, situations and procedures to define objectives, identify patterns, and formulate conclusions.

· Skill in setting priorities, which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.

· Ability to establish and maintain productive working relationships with faculty, residents, medical students and staff from various social, cultural and economic backgrounds.

· Skill in communication, to clearly convey complex problems and proposals in both formal and informal situations.

· Ability to interact diplomatically and sympathetically with a patient population in varying degrees of health.

· Working knowledge of research-oriented patient care systems ( preferred ).

· Advanced financial expertise in budget planning and financial forecasting in healthcare ( preferred ).

· Knowledge of EPIC EHR ( preferred )

As a condition of employment , the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.