Under general direction of the President and Chief Executive Officer and Southern New England Healthcare Organization ‘SoNE’ Board of Directors, this position leads all SoNE’s healthcare compliance initiatives, including the design, development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of an effective compliance and privacy program; ensures all appropriate controls and processes required to comply with federal and state healthcare and privacy regulations are in place. The Chief Compliance and Privacy Officer will build and maintain a culture of compliance integrated in all aspects of business and clinical operations across the organization, and perform other duties as assigned.
This role is located at the company's headquarters in Windsor, CT, and operates in a hybrid environment.
Additional Essential Functions:
- A collaborative, strategic partner who actively identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships, provides compliance advice that influence, strengthens, and achieve Healthcare Services Agency goals, and clearly defines ownership, accountability, and reporting roles.
- An active and engaged manager who aligns the organization’s vision and values, promotes strong compliance culture, and build shared accountability by inspiring, advising, delegating, promoting, and empowering the organization and employees to own compliance risks, leading to risk prevention and mitigation.
- Technically adept, understands and supports technology/information system operations to mitigate risks in a public sector health care setting.
- A visionary with strong analytical skills, capable of managing complex systems and collaborating with organization leaders to streamline Healthcare Services Agency needs.
- A solution-oriented, forward-focused leader capable of thinking systematically and strategically to identify the source of challenge or question and creates a culture of motivation and decision-making while exemplifying the use of resources wisely, responsibly, effectively, and efficiently.
- Capable of identifying and understanding complex problems, making decisions, exercising sound judgment, and formulating action plans proactively and collaboratively.
- An effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills focused on building an environment where diverse, multidisciplinary teams can work together to enhance the delivery of services for Alameda County communities.
- Lead, direct, and manage organizational change. Understands and supports the need for change; envisions and articulates the intended result of the change process; provides resources, removes barriers, and acts as an advocate for those initiating change; and can both identify and further develop existing practices, policies, or procedures that are consistent with departmental goals.
- Responsible for SoNE Health’s annual & new hire compliance training and education requirements. Plan, design and assign appropriate compliance courses as needed by SoNE staff. Maintain staff education completion documentation as appropriate.
- Keeps abreast of all the compliance changes/updates and promptly institute changes that apply to SoNE Health.
- Demonstrates respect for differences in language, culture, race, religion, citizenship, gender, and sexual orientation and does not discriminate on the basis of income, insurance status, immigration status, or disability.
- Responsible for creating and enforcing policies and procedures that ensure compliance with laws and regulations. This includes monitoring and reporting on compliance issues, educating employees on laws and regulations, and overseeing audits and investigations.
- Manage and execute policies and procedures which govern an organization’s compliance program.
- Monitor and test policies and procedures to ensure they can result in compliance.
- Assess the performance of the compliance program, carry out risk assessments and compliance reviews to ensure policies and procedures are being followed.
- Liaise with legal and regulatory bodies on compliance-related issues.
- Ensure that the organization complies with existing and developing federal and state laws and regulations.
- Manages the creation and update of the Compliance and Ethics Program Plan and ensures its execution.
- Responsible for establishing and setting the tone of compliance throughout the organization.
- Recommend the initiation of investigative procedures in response to alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and the Code of Conduct
- Carry out periodic evaluation of the compliance Programs and make appropriate changes and improvements.
- Monitor the Compliance Hotline for SoNE Health.
The duties listed above are intended only as illustrative of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar or a logical assignment to the position.
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES:
EDUCATION: Possession of a master’s degree from an accredited university or college in health care administration, business or public administration, public health, social welfare, or a closely related field; AND,
EXPERIENCE: The equivalent of seven (7) years of full-time, professional level experience in regulatory compliance or privacy, health care administration, quality assurance, or fiscal operations in a health care setting; two (2) years of which must have included supervision or lead responsibility; AND,
CERTIFICATE: Possession of a Healthcare Compliance Certificate issued by the Healthcare Compliance Association’s Certification Board.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
The Physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Frequently is required to walk, sit, and stand.
- Ability to transport and/or maneuver objects weighing up to 20 pounds.
- Busy work environment subject to frequent interruptions and shifting potentially conflicting priorities.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
As a condition of employment at SoNE Health, all employees must reside in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, or Massachusetts.
For the safety and well-being of our employees, all employees are required to be fully vaccinated for influenza.