VP, Clinical

Overview

As the largest and leading value-based kidney care company, Somatus is empowering patients across the country living with chronic kidney disease to experience more days out of the hospital and healthier at home.

It takes a village of passionate and tenacious innovators to revolutionize an industry and support individuals living with a chronic disease to fulfill our purpose of creating More Lives, Better Lived. Does this sound like you?

Showing Up Somatus Strong

We foster an inclusive work environment that promotes collaboration and innovation at every level. Our values bring our mission to life and serve as the DNA for every decision we make:

• Authenticity: We believe in real dialogue. In any interaction, with patients, partners, vendors, or our teammates, we are true to who we are, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

• Collaboration: We appreciate what every person at Somatus brings to the table and believe that together we can do and achieve more.

• Empowerment: We make sure every voice gets heard and all ideas are considered, especially when it comes to our patients’ lives or our partners’ best interests.

• Innovation: We relentlessly look for ways to improve upon the status quo to continuously deliver new solutions.

• Tenacity: We see challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement — especially when new solutions will make a difference for our patients and partners.

Showing Up for You

We offer more than 25 Health, Growth, and Wealth Work Perks to help teammates learn, grow, and be the best version of themselves, including:

• Subsidized, personal healthcare coverage (medical, dental vision)

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Professional Development, CEU, and Tuition Reimbursement

• Curated Wellness Benefits supporting teammates physical and mental well-being

• Community engagement opportunities

• And more!

The Vice President of Clinical Performance, under direction of the Chief Medical Officer, is responsible for providing physician clinical leadership to direct and advance enterprise-wide efforts to improve value (clinical quality, patient safety, patient experience, access, cost) of care provided to Somatus patients. The VP, Clinical Performance will work closely as the physician partner to the SVP, Clinical Operations and broader clinical operations teams to assess performance across payor-product partners and geographies and to reliably achieve market leading performance.

Works closely with clinical data analytics and actuarial teams to develop, refine, and deploy clinical performance population health initiatives and interventions for management use across the enterprise.

The VP, Clinical Performance will be a key member of the corporate clinical leadership team. In close partnership with the SVP, Clinical Operations, the VP will be expected to both develop and deploy a systematic approach to total cost of care (TCOC) improvement as part of routine market management as well as targeted, centrally-led strategic improvement efforts with Operations leaders across the enterprise.

Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited medical school with M.D. degree.

• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in clinical practice.

• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in value-based care settings.

• Track record of driving process, quality, and cost outcomes while improving patient care, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes.

• Leadership experience of people, programs, and resources.

Preferred:

• MBA, or Masters-Degree is preferred in healthcare, or other related fields of study.

• Three (3) years of clinical performance and value-based care leadership experience.

• Board certified in internal medicine, nephrology or family medicine.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Ability to combine leadership skills with clinical acumen to integrate best in class Clinical Performance.

- Entrepreneurial spirit and ability to drive change that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries.

- Ability to synthesize and interpret large amounts of disparate data.

- Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.

- The ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations in a fast-paced environment.

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