Vice President of Clinical Operations

Vice President of Clinical Operations

Elite Professional Providers, LLC () is seeking a visionary, high-impact Vice President of Clinical Operations to lead, scale, and optimize our clinical delivery systems. As a rapidly expanding multi-specialty group, we deliver comprehensive medical, psychiatric, psychotherapy, wound care, and podiatry services directly into Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities, alongside operating a cutting-edge physical clinic specialized in Spravato, Ketamine, and OUD treatments, complemented by an attached Med Spa.

The VP of Clinical Operations is a critical executive leader with the full authority to restructure workflows, staffing metrics, and clinical processes to support explosive company growth. This role bridges the gap between sales procurement and clinical execution, ensuring seamless facility onboarding and top-tier patient care.

Executive Reporting Structure & Collaboration

• Direct Report: Reports directly to the President of Operations (Financial) for strategic alignment, budgetary approvals, and growth scaling.
• Close Peer Partner: Works hand-in-hand with the VP of Operations (Sales & Marketing) to seamlessly transition signed long-term care contracts into active clinical deployments.
• Cooperative Partner: Oversight of our Care Management Team.
• Directly Supervises: Manages the Healthcare Recruitment Officer to align fast-paced provider hiring with regional facility expansion goals.
• Clinical Authority: Holds restructuring and operational authority over all cross-functional provider teams (Medical, Psych, Psychotherapy, Wounds, and Podiatry) and clinic support staff.

Clinical Oversight

Medical, Psych, Psychotherapy, Wounds, & Podiatry Teams and other modalities that we have structed in for the future.

Direct leadership, structural authority, and professional support for all provider and support staff.

Core Responsibilities

1. Long-Term Care (LTC) Onboarding & Implementation

• Pipeline Transition: Inherit newly secured LTC contracts from the VP of Operations (Sales) containing vital metrics: start dates, specialized modalities (medical, psych, wound, podiatry), and building profiles.
• Launch Execution: Act as the primary clinical touchpoint for new buildings, conducting rapid readiness assessments to guarantee complete operational compliance, technical systems setup, and credentialing before the official launch date.
• Multispecialty Deployment: Dynamically schedule and deploy cross-functional provider teams matching the specific modality needs of each long-term care building.

2. Physical Clinic & Med Spa Oversight

• Advanced Treatment Governance: Oversee clinical protocols and safety parameters for high-risk, specialized therapeutic lines including Spravato, Ketamine, and Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) programs.
• Med Spa Alignment: Synchronize operations with the attached Med Spa facility, ensuring clinical compliance, cross-referral pathways, and aesthetic service quality control.
• Provider Relations: Act as the chief liaison between physicians, advanced practice providers (NPs/PAs), and administrative support staff to build an efficient, highly collaborative working culture.

3. Strategic Restructuring & Talent Management

• Operational Restructuring: Exercise autonomous authority to re-engineer clinical divisions, re-allocate staff, adjust care models, and eliminate operational bottlenecks to maximize clinical output and safety.
• Recruitment Governance: Oversee the Healthcare Recruitment Officer. Directly shape hiring strategies for open clinical and support positions, prioritizing fast-fill strategies for regions with accelerating LTC demand.
• Care Coordination: Co-lead institutional cross-collaboration with the Director of Care Management to guarantee unified patient tracking, minimized hospital readmissions, and optimal billing captures.

Core Competencies & Leadership Traits

• Fast-Paced Scaling & Growth Management: Proven track record of successfully guiding an expanding, entrepreneurial healthcare company through explosive growth phases without sacrificing care quality.
• Proactive Operational Design: An forward-thinking leader who anticipates staffing, compliance, and credentialing bottlenecks before they impact contract start dates, building immediate preventative workflows.
• Decisive Solution Architecture: Exceptional, rapid problem-solving skills; ability to step into chaotic or stalled clinical scenarios, analyze data, and implement corrective action structures autonomously.
• Dynamic Restructuring Capability: Confident exercising high-level authority to re-engineer provider staffing metrics, replace legacy processes, and realign support staff to maximize efficiency.

Job Qualifications & Requirements

Required Education & Credentials

• Advanced Healthcare or Business Degree:
• Master of Health Administration (MHA), Master of Business Administration (MBA with a Healthcare focus), or equivalent experience.

Experience & Skills

• Executive Leadership: Minimum of 5–7 years of progressive executive leadership experience (Director, VP, or COO level) overseeing multi-site clinical operations.
• Post-Acute Expertise: Proven background managing clinical teams within Long-Term Care (LTC), Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF), or post-acute networks.
• Clinic Operations: Direct operational familiarity with outpatient mental health clinics, addiction medicine (OUD), or complex infusion/specialty drugs (e.g., Ketamine/Spravato pathways).
• Strategic Change Management: Demonstrated success utilizing organizational authority to restructure legacy medical staff configurations, create performance benchmarks, and optimize clinical workflows.

Compensation & Benefits

• Executive Compensation: Highly competitive base salary commensurate with senior executive experience.
• Performance Incentives: Executive bonus structure tied directly to successful LTC facility launches, clinic growth milestones, and clinical margin optimization.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: Elite-tier health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid time off, and 401(k) matching programs.

Pay: $105,000.00 - $127,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Springfield, MO 65804

Salary : $105,000 - $127,000