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. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job