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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