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Clinical Director, Continuum of Care

Primary Location Antioch, California Facility Name Antioch Medical Center Schedule Full-time Shift Day Salary $212000 - $274340 / year
Job Number 1371404 Date posted 08/06/2025
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Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities below, this position is also responsible for establishing best practice models; performing strategic planning and designing patient care delivery systems and practice standards in several locations; leading the investigation of patient/family/member concerns regarding patient care and services; partnering with leaders to target diseases/conditions/services that would benefit from a multidisciplinary approach; directing interdisciplinary teams to design assessment tools, interventions, and care management plans that improve member outcomes throughout the continuum of care; managing resource needs in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization; evaluating the use and maintenance of equipment, supplies and medications; assuming accountability for patient and employee safety; maintaining clinical expertise, directing clinical supervision, staff competency and licensing; delegating tasks and duties that are aligned to scope of practice; and performing clinical duties as required.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.

  • Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.

  • Directs continuum of care / care at home operations to support patient care by: approving timelines and developing and/or directing strategy with stakeholders to identify factors contributing to business value; assuming accountability for department performance targets and aligning with market strategies; championing short- and long-term operational initiatives and directing program, services, and/or systems development; aligning human resource management programs (e.g., performance measurement and employee management) with KPs mission and values; designing continuous survey and compliance readiness activities, including mock rounds and mitigating issues, to maintain compliance and regulatory standards and reviewing prepared audit documentation, information, and reports; and leading the development of budgets for assigned areas (e.g., branch office, staffing, business services departments) and ensuring overall financial performance meets expectations.

  • Ensures standardized care delivery by: partnering with physicians and other clinical leaders to align key care delivery initiatives across KP, providing oversight of all workstreams; assuming accountability for short- and long-term results and performance while ensuring guideline and regulation alignment for service lines or programs; driving cross-functional patient management resolution with internal and external leaders, ensuring consistency and seamless transitions across the continuum of care; anticipating and aligning resources in clinical areas to ensure appropriate assignment and utilization for service lines or programs; directing multidisciplinary continuum of care / care at home team(s) and holding team(s) accountable for performance; ensuring appropriate oversight to maintain high quality contract/vendor relations that provide optimal patient care and medical services for care across the continuum; planning long-term strategic goals and designing emergency preparedness programs and ensuring the departments emergency preparedness and recovery plans are current and that managers and staff are trained and know what is expected during and after an emergency; and providing strategic direction to project teams leading initiatives and ensuring implementation, equitable distribution of resources, and delivery on objectives.

  • Directs improvements to operations and technology processes by: driving KP-wide internal and external strategic projects designed to remediate issues for impacted groups and improve quality, service, affordability, and/or operating efficiency; ensuring clinical teams use standardized tools to identify root causes for escalations, making recommendations, and implementing solutions to improve the performance of operations system processes; and consulting with senior and executive management to identify relevant performance metrics to monitor the success of strategic improvement projects.
Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

  • Minimum five (5) years of customer or member/patient service experience.

  • Minimum two (2) years of experience managing operational or project budgets.

  • Bachelors degree in a business, nursing, health care, or directly related field AND minimum seven (7) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field OR minimum ten (10) years of experience in business operations, clinical health care, or a directly related field.


  • Physician Assistant License (California) required at hire OR Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Certification required at hire OR Registered Dietitian required at hire OR Registered Nurse License (California) required at hire OR Respiratory Care Practitioner License (California) required at hire OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California) required at hire OR Speech-Language Pathologist License (California) required at hire OR Physical Therapist License (California) required at hire OR Occupational Therapist License (California) required at hire OR Pharmacist License (California) required at hire
  • Basic Life Support required at hire
Additional Requirements:

  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Emergency Preparedness; Patient Safety; Evidence-Based Medicine Principles; Evidence-Based Practices; Licensure Principles; Change Management; Business Process Improvement; Compliance Management; Confidentiality; Health Care Compliance; Maintain Files and Records; Financial Acumen; Employee Training; Employee/Labor Relations; Onboarding; Position Requirements; Workforce Planning; Conflict Resolution; Stakeholder Management; Vendor Management; Legal And Regulatory Requirements; Calendar Management; Member Service; Microsoft Office; Health Care Quality Standards; Information Systems; Union Work Environment; Training; Outcome Driven Innovation

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Five (5) years of project/program management and/or implementation-related experience.
  • Five (5) years of experience in process improvement.
Primary Location: California,Antioch,Antioch Medical Center Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 04:30 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Onsite Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Director/Senior Director Department: Antioch Hospital - Hosp Admin-Chief Oper Officer - 0208 Pay Range: $212000 - $274340 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: No

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

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