Assistant Vice President, Compliance Business Integrity Partner- Rehab and BehavioralNashville, Tennessee

We are recruiting for an Assistant Vice President, Compliance Business Integrity Partner- Rehab and Behavioral to join our LifePoint Compliance Team in Nashville, Tennessee. 

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Assistant Vice President, Compliance Business Integrity Partner- Rehab and Behavioral (AVP) assists in the operation and management of the Company Compliance program and is primarily responsible for LifePoint Health’s compliance program implementation in and support of the rehabilitation and behavioral service lines of the organization.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

• To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. 

• The AVP is responsible for supporting and partnering with local Ethics and Compliance Officers to execute the enterprise-wide compliance program in the rehabilitation and behavioral business lines.

• The AVP is responsible for aligning with operations to develop and implement proactive, prevention focused compliance initiatives to mitigate organizational compliance risk in the rehabilitation and behavioral business lines. They are responsible for managing the partnership between compliance and our local leadership teams and HSC business operations teams.

• The AVP will manage the directors, managers, and others on the compliance business integrity partner team in line with achieving the objectives of the compliance department in the rehabilitation and behavioral business lines. They will coordinate consistent application of policy and drive enterprise level initiatives. In addition, they will support team members to maintain the necessary competencies.

• The AVP will manage the collaborative work with legal, operations, and others on the compliance team to ensure material compliance impacting corrective action plans are implemented in the rehabilitation and behavioral business lines. They will escalate material issues to the VP, Compliance Business Integrity Partner and Chief Compliance Officer as appropriate and provide trended analysis to support resource deployment and prioritization.  

• Upon request, the AVP will participate in or otherwise support internal investigations conducted by other functional areas, including compliance investigations, human resources, legal, and revenue cycle.

• The AVP shall maintain confidentiality and discretion regarding all work matters, and fully comply with all legal and ethical obligations, the Company Code of Conduct, and the Code of Ethics for Healthcare Professionals adopted by the Health Care Compliance Association.  

• Regular and reliable attendance.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information:

• Positions serves both internal co-workes and external customer, clients, patients, contractors and vendors. 

• Access to and/or works with sensitive and/or confidential information. 

• Exhibit a thorough understanding of healthcare regulatory and compliance and an ability to analyze legal requirements.  Skilled in the application and interpretation of policies and procedures.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required.

Skills and Abilities:

• Business Mathematical Skills - Ability to add, subtrackt, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.  Ability to compute rates, ratios, percentatges and to draw and interpret graphs. 
• Moderate Computer Skills -- Frequent use of electronic mail, word processing, data entry, spreadsheets, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain and incorporate simple functions into documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations to support business objectives.
• Organizational Communication: Handles broad-based complex information across departments with company-wide impact. Presents to diverse audiences, and can negotiate, motivate and persuade others both orally and in writing.
• Manages problems that are broad, complex and abstract, often involving company-wide issues. Must develop solutions using substantial creativity, resourcefulness, innovation, negotiation and diplomacy.
• Decisions have significant, broad implications for the management and operations of a division. Job contributes to decisions on the overall strategy and direction of LifePoint.
• Organizational Judgment: Sets direction and vision for major departments or multiple departments. Establishes priorities, develops policies and allocates resources for LifePoint.
• Prioritizes, organizes, and delegates project assignments company-wide: responsible for project outcomes.
• Oversees and assures quality for a significant functional area within the department; contributes to department strategy; accountable for continual improvement of the compliance program and success of function within scope of responsibility and professional growth and development of direct and indirect reports
• Complex/Medium Impact Problems: Ability to solve complex problems with functional by recognizing risks, difficulties or complications, identifying analogous situations, developing and evaluating options and implementing solutions. Exercises sound judgment to identify and escalate more complex/high impact issues.
• Leadership: Ability to lead and motivate team to meet team and department objectives; skilled at coaching teams and team members to improve performance and meet development goals. Works well in teams.
• Moderate overnight travel (up to 25%) by land and/or air. Remote arrangements may require increased travel.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree, other appropriate degree, or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 12+ years related experience in compliance audit, healthcare compliance, regulatory and/or operational expertise required.
• Compliance certification preferred.

Depending on candidate’s qualifications, we may fill this at a different level