Chief Medical Officer - Venice Family Clinic

Venice Family Clinic is a leader in providing comprehensive, high-quality health care to people in need regardless of their ability to pay or personal circumstances. The organization has more than 500 staff who serve 45,000 people with compassion, dignity, and respect across the Westside of Los Angeles, Inglewood, the South Bay, and everywhere in between. We have a network of clinics, Early Head Start centers, and mobile clinics, plus an expansive street medicine program to reach people experiencing homelessness. Read more about us at venicefamilyclinic.org

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) is responsible for the clinical vision of Venice Family Clinic and provides clinical oversight of all clinical programs, including those involving medical residents, students, and their faculty. He/she partners with the clinical, operations, program, and administrative staff and volunteers to identify new programs, evaluate existing programs, and determine which programs and clinical interventions best serve VFC patients. They are responsible for both the productivity of the clinical staff and the quality of care delivered by staff and volunteer medical clinicians.

The Chief Medical Officer directly supervises the Associate Medical Directors, Director, Managed Care & Care Coordination and Director of Behavioral Health and the Chief Medical Information Officer.

The CMO participates in clinical risk management, compliance, and patient safety. The CMO is responsible for overseeing all peer review, credentialing, and privileging activities. Clinical care accounts for 35% of the CMO’s work duties, with administrative and supervisory responsibilities accounting for the other 65%. The CMO is responsible for overseeing all peer review, credentialing and privileging activities. Clinical care accounts for 40% of the CMO’s work duties with administrative and supervisory responsibilities accounting for the other 60%.

The target salary range for this role is: $260,600- $390,000 annual.

- Board-certified in Family Medicine, Med/Peds, Internal Medicine, or Pediatrics, required.
- MD or DO degree, required.
- An active, CA license & DEA license, re-quired.
- At least 7 years of experience as a primary care physician, required.

- At least five years of experience in a leadership position in a primary health care setting, required.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge of medical problems of medically underserved populations, including persons experiencing homelessness, preferred.
- Experience supervising clinical and physician staff, preferred.

- Understanding of Clinic/FQHC operations, strongly preferred.

- Previous experience as a volunteer, staff member, or faculty member in a setting serving underserved people, preferred.

- Ability to speak Spanish, preferred.

- Experience with Epic, 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.