Senior Counsel Healthcare - The Permanente Medical Group Attorney
About the position
Responsibilities
• Develops and presents legal advice and opinions relative to TPMGs operations and regulatory requirements.
• Provides day to day legal advice to TPMG, including operations and physician leaders on a wide range of health care, corporate, and other legal issues.
• Conducts legal research, prepares legal documents and recommends courses of action to ensure appropriate compliance with existing laws, regulations, and accreditation standards.
• Provides advice and drafting assistance on policies and procedures, and on proposed communications that may have legal implications.
• Reviews and advises TPMG management on relevant new and proposed statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions affecting TPMG operations.
• Provides negotiation assistance, reviews, develops, drafts, and prepares contracts with organizations with which TPMG conducts business.
• Monitors, manages, and reviews all work and expenditures for outside counsel to ensure quality and efficacy of legal services.
• Provides/contributes to educational programs for TPMG physicians and other employees on legal issues pertaining to TPMG and Kaiser Permanente.
Requirements
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience as a practicing attorney analyzing and applying health care or employment, contract, and/or corporate laws, regulations and guidelines to the practice of law.
• Law degree required.
• Registered In House Counsel (California) within 12 months of hire OR State Bar License (California) within 12 months of hire.
• Strong client service skills required with demonstrated excellent client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
• Demonstrated ability to define the strategy of and provide overall direction to a specified practice area.
• Excellent skills in complex analytic problem solving, project management, change management, and group process.
• Superior communication, consulting, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management, problem resolution, change management skills and consensus building skills.
• Ability to adapt to constantly changing priorities in managing a wide range of projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead professionals through influence and collaboration.
• Understanding of Health Care operations and KP competitors, and economic, social, and legal environment.
• Superior leadership and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to bring projects/initiatives to completion.
• Must possess superior interpersonal skills (oral and written), coaching and mentoring skills, presentation skills, and must exemplify key leadership attributes.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Nice-to-haves
• Minimum of five (5) years of California-specific employment law experience advising a health care system or systems (and/or clinic or medical group) as internal or external counsel.
• Experience representing medical professionals before their licensing boards.
• A demonstrated understanding of physician/hospital/health plan relationships.
• Experience with intellectual property, including advising on IP strategy, protection of all forms of intellectual property.
• Experience with clinical, applied, and translational research, including working with Institutional Review Boards.
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Responsibilities
• Develops and presents legal advice and opinions relative to TPMGs operations and regulatory requirements.
• Provides day to day legal advice to TPMG, including operations and physician leaders on a wide range of health care, corporate, and other legal issues.
• Conducts legal research, prepares legal documents and recommends courses of action to ensure appropriate compliance with existing laws, regulations, and accreditation standards.
• Provides advice and drafting assistance on policies and procedures, and on proposed communications that may have legal implications.
• Reviews and advises TPMG management on relevant new and proposed statutes, regulations, and judicial decisions affecting TPMG operations.
• Provides negotiation assistance, reviews, develops, drafts, and prepares contracts with organizations with which TPMG conducts business.
• Monitors, manages, and reviews all work and expenditures for outside counsel to ensure quality and efficacy of legal services.
• Provides/contributes to educational programs for TPMG physicians and other employees on legal issues pertaining to TPMG and Kaiser Permanente.
Requirements
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience as a practicing attorney analyzing and applying health care or employment, contract, and/or corporate laws, regulations and guidelines to the practice of law.
• Law degree required.
• Registered In House Counsel (California) within 12 months of hire OR State Bar License (California) within 12 months of hire.
• Strong client service skills required with demonstrated excellent client satisfaction.
• Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
• Demonstrated ability to define the strategy of and provide overall direction to a specified practice area.
• Excellent skills in complex analytic problem solving, project management, change management, and group process.
• Superior communication, consulting, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management, problem resolution, change management skills and consensus building skills.
• Ability to adapt to constantly changing priorities in managing a wide range of projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead professionals through influence and collaboration.
• Understanding of Health Care operations and KP competitors, and economic, social, and legal environment.
• Superior leadership and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to bring projects/initiatives to completion.
• Must possess superior interpersonal skills (oral and written), coaching and mentoring skills, presentation skills, and must exemplify key leadership attributes.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Nice-to-haves
• Minimum of five (5) years of California-specific employment law experience advising a health care system or systems (and/or clinic or medical group) as internal or external counsel.
• Experience representing medical professionals before their licensing boards.
• A demonstrated understanding of physician/hospital/health plan relationships.
• Experience with intellectual property, including advising on IP strategy, protection of all forms of intellectual property.
• Experience with clinical, applied, and translational research, including working with Institutional Review Boards.
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