VP Clinical and Compliance

The vice president, clinical and compliance (VPCC) serves as the enterprise leader responsible for aligning clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, and data-informed decision-making across New Perspective Senior Living. This role extends beyond traditional clinical oversight to integrate clinical operations, regulatory strategy, compliance infrastructure, and clinical data intelligence into a unified operating model that improves resident outcomes, supports team members, and drives net operating income (NOI).

The VPCC provides strategic and operational leadership to clinical teams while partnering cross-functionally with operations, innovation, IT, and external partners to ensure that clinical care delivery, compliance programs, and supporting technologies are tightly aligned.

This individual plays a critical role in:

• Translating clinical and regulatory requirements into scalable systems, workflows, and policies
• Driving survey readiness and risk mitigation across all communities
• Advancing clinical data integration and interoperability across platforms (EHR, falls detection, engagement, visitation, etc.)
• Supporting value-based care initiatives and outcome measurement
• Ensuring the organization maintains a strong and defensible compliance and privacy posture

This role is a servant leader who champions the company’s mission—Residents First in Everything We Do—while enabling team members to deliver exceptional care with clarity, consistency, and confidence

RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Leadership and Operational Excellence

• Provide enterprise leadership, oversight, and direction to licensed nurses and clinical leaders across communities, developing clinical leaders across the organization
• Own enterprise-level clinical and compliance performance, including trends, risks, and strategic improvement initiatives
• Ensure consistent delivery of high-quality resident care through standardized clinical practices and continuous performance monitoring
• Lead development, revision, and implementation of clinical policies, procedures, and standards
• Collaborate with operations leaders to drive improvements in resident outcomes, length of stay, hospitalizations and transfers, resident satisfaction and retention
• Lead resolution of escalated clinical issues through cross-functional collaboration
• Support a “survey ready” environment across the organization, with strong performance on surveys, audits, and internal quality reviews
• Provide mentorship and development for regional and community clinical leaders
• Collaborate with human resources on recruitment, development, and retention of clinical leaders
• Partner with resident experience leadership to align clinical practices with the resident experience and life engagement programs

Compliance, Regulatory and Risk Management

• Lead the organization’s regulatory compliance strategy, ensuring adherence to applicable regulations
• Oversee survey readiness, deficiency response, and corrective action processes across communities
• Partner with senior leadership to interpret regulatory changes, operationalize requirements into policies and procedures, and ensure consistent execution across communities
• Establish and maintain systems for proactive risk identification and mitigation
• Immediately follow up on reports of suspected or alleged maltreatment in accordance with policies and applicable law
• Ensure strong documentation practices and defensibility of care delivery
• Oversee the licensed nurse delegation program across communities, ensuring state-specific compliance with delegation requirements and supporting team member competency development

Clinical Systems, Data and Informatics

• Serve as a bridge between clinical and business operations and technology systems, ensuring tools support care delivery and compliance
• Provide strategic oversight and direction for electronic health records (EHR) and medication administration (eMAR), with August Health as the company's core clinical platform, including implementation, optimization, and adoption across communities
• Partner with technology and operations leadership to integrate clinical data into the enterprise data lake (Skypoint), enable reporting, dashboards, and predictive insights
• Identify opportunities to leverage data across systems (e.g., falls detection, engagement, visitation) to detect changes in condition earlier, improve care planning, and drive better outcomes and financial performance
• Support system selection, implementation, optimization, and training

Value-Based Care and Clinical Partnerships

• Provide oversight and accountability for value-based care initiatives and clinical partnerships (e.g., Curana and other ancillary services)
• Ensure clinical programs align with quality outcomes, reimbursement opportunities, and reduced burden on community teams
• ime (local, regional, and companywide) with the position preferably based in the company’s resource center in Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Miscellaneous

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered Nurse (RN) required; MSN preferred; multi-state licensure preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience in senior living, long-term care, or healthcare
• Deep understanding of assisted living and memory care regulations, clinical operations and care delivery models, and compliance and survey processes
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory and clinical requirements into scalable operations, lead across multiple functions and influence without direct authority, and integrate technology and data into clinical workflows
• Strong business acumen with understanding of the relationship between clinical outcomes and NOI

WORK ENVVIRONMENT

• Anticipated travel of 50–75% of the time (local, regional, and company-wide) with the position preferably based in the company’s resource center in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
• Will at times work in a healthcare environment with potential exposure to infectious diseases transmitted via blood and bodily fluids and respiratory droplets.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• While performing the duties of the job, the employee will perform activities that will require lifting of objects up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Salary

$165K - $175K plus bonus eligibility (Based on experience and qualifications)

Team Member Benefits & Perks*

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with Company Match!
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Company-Paid Basic Life Insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability
• Company-Paid Long-Term Disability
• Health Reimbursement Account/Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Education assistance - up to $5,000 per calendar year!
• Leadership Development & Career Advancement
• Real-time Access to Earned Wages
• Referral Bonuses
• Employee Assistance Program

• Benefits vary by full-time, part-time, and PRN status.