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Director, Clinical Excellence

SSM Health

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Compensation
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Location
Saint Louis, MOHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Director, Clinical Excellence supports SSM Health’s Academic and Community Medical Groups across Saint Louis and advises Southern Illinois. The role leads regional and system-level clinical practice, regulatory readiness, patient safety, and operational initiatives. It directs clinic or hospital operations, develops goals aligned with organizational strategy, coordinates patient care services, and manages staff, budgets, compliance, contracts, and vendor relationships.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Clinical Operations ManagementPatient Care CoordinationStaff ManagementSchedulingRecruitmentPayrollBudget ManagementRegulatory ComplianceContract ManagementVendor Relations

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent3 Years Management Experience3 Years Leadership Experience

Full job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare

Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL

Named One of America's Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes

Named One of America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek

Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

This position supports the Academic and Community Medical Groups across Saint Louis and serves as an advisor and connection point for Southern Illinois. Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Owner and Reviewer for Ambulatory policies including ensuring accountability

  • Revier/Approver of Clinical Practice Agreements

  • Medical Group Representative for Regional Nursing Executive Committee

  • QGenda and Project One Site Readiness representative and communications

  • Medical Group Nursing Director Representative for System Ambulatory Clinic Practice Lead Meetings

  • Leads St. Louis/Southern Illinois Practice Council

  • System Pharmacy Network Integrity Representative

  • ADA Workgroup Medical Group representative

  • DAISY/BEE Leadership

  • Reviewer of patient safety events

  • Regulatory Readiness lead for Medical Group

  • Medical Group Representative for Workforce Operational Partnership Sync

  • Oversight of Regulatory Priorities and Follow-up actions and Communications

  • Medical Group Nurse Practice Change Requests

  • Representative for System Respiratory Illness & Emerging Pathogens Steering Committee

To request additional information, confidentially submit your interest, or nominate a fellow colleague, please contact:

Jon Dirksen

Executive Talent Partner

[email protected]

#LI-Hybrid

Job Summary:

Directs clinic and/or hospital sites and operations. Develops specific goals, standards and objectives which directly support the strategic plan and vision of the clinic and/or hospital.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities

  • Plans for new and expanded services.

  • Assesses quality of and coordinates patient care services with patients, staff, physicians, and other providers.

  • Manages staff relations including performance management, staff satisfaction and conflict management.

  • Performs and oversees scheduling, recruitment and payroll.

  • Monitors budgets, regulatory compliance, departmental contracts and vendor relations.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of education and experience

Experience

  • Three years' management experience, with three years' in leadership

Department:

8050000125 CMC Administration

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Read our notice of non-discrimination (https://www.ssmhealth.com/privacy-notices-terms-of-use/non-discrimination?\_ga=2.205881493.704955970.1667719643-240470506.1667719643)

How this job compares

Set against the 1,062 open Healthcare Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$93–157K/yr591 salary ranges
  • US median$28–43/hr125 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open Healthcare Operations jobs in Missouri and 1,062 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Missouri
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Healthcare Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (908 postings).
Education
327 of the 1,062 open Healthcare Operations jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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