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Cedars-Sinai Associate Director, Clinical Operations - Cell Therapy in Los Angeles, California
Job Description
The Hematology and BMT/Cellular Therapy Program operates within a continuum of levels of acute and chronic care services. These are tightly coordinated with the patients’ primary care and specialty care physicians in the community. Adult Hematology services in a 32 bed unit located on the 4thFloor (west end) of the South Tower of the Medical Center (4SW). This includes 32 beds with 12 positive pressure rooms that are designated for the treatment of autologous and allogeneic stem cells, bone marrow transplant, and umbilical cord blood transplant patients.
We use a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care throughout the continuum of the Hematology/Oncology/BMT Program services: Staff on 4SW provides procedures including chemotherapy/high-dose chemotherapy administration and monitoring, pain management and patient controlled analgesia, metabolic support, stem cell, bone marrow, and umbilical cord blood infusions.
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Summary of Essential Duties:
The Associate Director, Clinical Operations of Hematology and Cellular Therapy entails organizing, directing and oversight of daily operations for the clinical and academic operations for the HCT program at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. This includes:
Pre-treatment clinical operations for patients being treated with Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants and/or manufactured cellular therapy.
CIBMTR reporting of both Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant and CAR-T patient/treatment data elements and oversight of data quality and accreditation requirements.
FACT accreditation.
Onboarding new cell therapy products (partners include legal, pharmacy, transfusion medicine (pheresis/cell lab), inpatient, ICU, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Center, OR).
Financial workflows and management of cell therapy budgets and invoicing (340B versus WAC).
Serving as the administrative liaison with Cedars-Sinai Cancer, Department of Medicine, and Academic Human Resources for faculty administrative management.
Oversee the Division of Hematology and Cell Therapy Nurse Practitioner program
Provide guidance to the Transplant Coordinators
Managed care contracts and annual ASTCT RFI submissions directly impacting our “in-network” status for insurance plans.
Planning, growth, and quality improvement for the HCT program
Qualifications
Education:
High School Diploma or GED required
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Business Administration, Science in Nursing and/or related field preferred
Experience:
5 years of experience in a healthcare setting, such as medical, surgical, stroke, radiation and/or related department/unit required
4 years of experience managing academic clinical departments, service lines and/or related required
3 years of supervisory/management experience and overseeing departments/service lines in a healthcare setting required
About Us
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About the Team
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID : 5953
Working Title : Associate Director, Clinical Operations - Cell Therapy
Department : Cellular Therapy
Business Entity : Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category : Clinical Operations
Job Specialty : Clinical Operations
Overtime Status : EXEMPT
Primary Shift : Day
Shift Duration : 8 hour
Base Pay : $72.91 - $131.24
Cedars-Sinai is an EEO employer. Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law.