Veterinary Group Medical Director

About the role

The Group Medical Director (GMD) oversees multiple hospital locations within the BluePearl organization, with combined revenues of approximately $100MM or greater. The GMD is responsible for translating organizational objectives into market-specific goals that foster a clinician-driven culture, clinician engagement and retention, and strong fiscal performance.

Responsibilities

• Identify, oversee, and develop medical leaders (Medical Directors and their ER Service Team Leads) to ensure optimal clinician productivity and engagement.
• Create a clinician-driven culture in assigned markets.
• Serve as a high-level representative and champion of BluePearl's mission and vision in all interactions within the organization and external veterinary community.
• Partner with field leaders to effectively communicate and cascade key initiatives impacting medical staff.
• Foster a collaborative and trusting relationship between the support team and hospitals.
• Partner with field leaders to ensure appropriate productivity levels and growth plans for clinicians and hospitals, including maximizing technical teams.
• Monitor reports on operating costs within functional areas and alert hospital leaders of cost and labor overruns.
• Partners with field leaders, finance, and P&O to assess concerns and implement solutions.
• Own the success of on-site visit process for DVM candidates in assigned markets, ensures onboarding and mentoring of new BluePearl Clinicians through BluePearl Mentorship Program.
• Ensure standards for medical quality, patient safety reporting, equipment, and clinician productivity/performance are met.
• Partner with assigned Vet Relations team to collaborate on pDVM referral strategies that impact assigned markets.
• Oversee and encourage support of continuing education programs across assigned markets and ensures programs sufficiently develop and engage technicians and clinicians to deliver remarkable care to patients.
• Monitor reports on medical occurrences, patient safety and client experience and partners with stakeholders as needed to ensure swift resolution, improvements, and/or coaching as needed.
• Work collaboratively with the BluePearl Support Team to develop solutions for escalated concerns and influences medical leaders to shape adoption and ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
• Travel around 50% to ensure in-person leadership and mentoring in hospitals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and DVM (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine) required.
• Completion of 1-year rotating internship required.
• May be Emergency Clinician or board-certified Specialty Clinician.
• 7+ years of leadership experience required (previously overseeing multiple sites or revenues exceeding $25MM preferred).

Qualifications

• Experience in veterinary medicine and leadership.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel around 50% of the time.

Skills

• Strategic planning and implementation.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Collaborative problem-solving.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement.

Benefits

BluePearl offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and life insurance options, an annual company store allowance, flexible work schedules, paid time off, paid parental leave, and floating holiday plans. Additionally, there is a regional licensed social worker available for support, and the company promotes a family-like culture in its hospitals.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job posting.