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Key Roles: 

As the clinical section chief for palliative care, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Clinical leadership over the palliative care service at Stanford Health Care (SHC), and affiliated partner entities in the areas of quality, safety, clinical effectiveness, patient experience, and cost-effective care.
• Recruitment, mentorship, and supervision of the Clinical Faculty of the Palliative Care section of approximately 10 faculty, within the Division of Primary Care & Population Health, both to provide world-class palliative care and to advance academically through regional and national prominence in their area of focus
• Together with SHC administrative partners, pursuit of a shared vision for the future of palliative care at Stanford
• Partnership with the Research Chief of Palliative Care, and the Fellowship Director of Palliative Care, to jointly excel in the triple mission of academic medicine
• Work with the chief and faculty of geriatrics and general primary care, as well as other clinical departments across Stanford, to develop shared programs around common goals and patient populations, especially in end of life care and goals
• Expansion of a growing community partnership and outreach program with underserved populations, and active participation in efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the section, division, and school
• Membership of the senior leadership of the division of PCPH and a steward of the division as a whole in areas such as strategic planning, leadership development, workforce wellness and professional fulfillment, communication and coordination across sections, and financial strength

Essential Skills: (e.g. What’s essential to prepare for this role/ be selected? What sorts of development is likely in this role?)

Program development skills (could be within palliative care or in another area)

Faculty mentorship

Health system collaboration

Team-building and team management

As part of this role, you can anticipate the following development as a physician leader:

-mentorship and sponsorship skills

-organizational navigation skills (in a heavily matrixed environment – Stanford Health Care and Stanford University)

-building diverse teams

Future Trends:  (e.g. What’s happening in the near/long term at SHC, in the field that’s relevant to this role?)

Clinically integrated network (SHC, UHA, SCH, PCHA) development

Expansion of Medicare Primary Care First Programming and Medicare Advantage

Development of Palliative Care QI infrastructure (EPIC dashboard, QI support from SHC)

Exploration of onsite hospice services/partnerships

Collaboration with Stanford Children’s Pediatric Palliative Care Program (just underwent an external review)

Key Relationships: (e.g. What individuals within the organization does the person collaborate and interact with?)

“Dyad” partnerships with the SHC Director of Palliative Care and Geriatrics and with the Executive Director of Ambulatory Services

Palliative Care Section Faculty: ongoing mentorship with some of the section as well as overall faculty development for the section

Close collaboration with operational dyads for the inpatient and outpatient palliative care services

Direct reporting to the Division Chief of Primary Care and Population Health

Participation: (e.g. What committees, governing bodies, or other leadership groups/ stakeholders does role regularly intersect with and need to participate in?)

Participation needed in:

-Clinic and inpatient service medical directors for palliative care (monthly)

-Palliative Care leadership team meetings (weekly)

-SHC Dyad partner meetings (monthly)

-Division leadership meetings (monthly)

-Division Clinical Faculty meetings (monthly)

-Department Faculty meetings (bimonthly)

Regularly intersect with Division of Primary Care and Population Health leaders (Geriatrics, Primary Care, Health Services Research), SHC quality department members, palliative care team members, trainees from various specialties.