El Centro de Corazón · 1 day ago
DIRECTOR OF COMPLIANCE
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
5+ years expEl Centro de Corazón is seeking a Director of Compliance to oversee and enhance their Corporate Compliance Program. The role involves ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations, developing policies, and conducting audits while collaborating with various stakeholders to maintain effective compliance practices.
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Responsibilities
Leads El Centro de Corazón’s Corporate Compliance Program, including serving as Chair of the internal Compliance Committee and reports to the Board of Directors’ Executive Committee
Works closely with department leaders, key program managers, and Executive Leadership Team to enhance the compliance program, with successful alignment to the organization’s strategic initiatives
Creates compliance related policies for the organization and secondarily maintains all departmental policies and procedures housed internally and on through a third-party platform as systems administrator
Assists in the creation of department-wide policies by reviewing policies to ensure no duplications or contradictions
Assists department leaders and key programs managers with education and training assignments for all staffing levels necessary to ensure annual training requirements are met and ensure successful implementation of organizational policies and procedures
Works with all staffing levels to develop successful and effective education and training on compliance topics, both organization-wide and department specific
Ensures consistent exclusion screening is performed to ensure that Federal databases have been checked with respect to all individuals affiliated with El Centro de Corazón
Conduct and assist with risk assessments to identify areas of compliance and ethical risks and develop action plans to mitigate identified areas
Conduct and/or coordinate all internal and external compliance audits
Remains up to date on relevant federal, state, and all other stakeholders’ regulations, laws and best practices that impact El Centro de Corazón’s operations
Serves as point of contact, consults and collaborates with outside counsel for claims made against the organization
Attend all scheduled regulatory and monitoring visits to ensure follow-through on all corrective action plans and/or recommendations
Independently investigates, designs and responds to any noncompliant conduct or reported alleged violations against El Centro’s Code of Conduct, regulatory rules and guidelines and other regulatory stakeholders
Provides reports, according to the Compliance work plan, on a regular basis, and as needed or requested, to keep the Compliance Committee and Board Executive Committee informed of the operation and progress of all compliance efforts
Ensures all evaluations and audits are performed according to the organization’s calendar
Monitors activities of the Compliance Plan as they relate to compliance initiatives
Performs other tasks as required by key management
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in healthcare, business or organizational related field, at minimum, required
5+ years of legal, regulatory, and/or compliance experience with a healthcare provider organization or regulatory agency
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, managers, healthcare professionals, physicians and members of Executive Leadership and the general public
Excellent verbal, written communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
Exhibit excellent leadership and self-direction, good judgment in handling difficult situations, good organizational, time management, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
Must be able to travel, via automobile and/or airplane, for continuing education, training, and conference opportunities as appropriate for, and as enhancement to, position responsibilities
Ability to be a change leader
Ability to manage projects in culturally diverse settings - knowledge of different cultural sensitivities within regions and/or communities that could impact the progress of a program or contract, and an ability to use that knowledge to manage relationships and to share that knowledge with the larger project team
Extensive management skills demonstrated by calm and thorough review of situations. Proactively identifies and/ or addresses problems. Seeks to understand all contributing factors. Proposes, implements, and evaluates appropriate solutions
Provides active mentorship and training of staff to build talent across the organization. Delegates appropriate and challenging assignments to encourage growth, development and responsibility
Establishes and communicates team performance expectations and guidelines. Communicates and escalates unresolved issues at the appropriate time and to the appropriate level of management
Promotes effective teamwork among department/program teams and provides day-to-day direction for core team members to enhance the efficiency and the quality of the work performed on assigned projects
Contributes to new business development by offering expertise during strategy sessions, proposal development and client presentations
Strong communication and presentation skills - Ability to establish and maintain positive funder, program/project team member and internal relationships
Preferred
Master's degree in healthcare or business administration preferred
Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) or equivalent certification strongly preferred
Company
El Centro de Corazón
Serving Houston’s East End community since 1994, El Centro de Corazón (El Centro) is an accomplished Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with two health center locations.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Marcie Mir
Chief Executive Officer
Javier Rosa
Chief Information Officer
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