Description: Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this individual contributor position is also responsible for providing HR operations support to KP physician and/or executive employees. This includes providing HR support directly to physicians and/executives in areas of payroll, compensation, benefits enrollment and administration, on/off-boarding, and new hire orientation. This also includes providing exceptional customer service directly to MDs and/or executives, answering and resolving questions related to payroll issues, deductions, salary, benefits, and leave status.
This role is also responsible for conducting audits of personnel/compensation-related data elements, statistics, presentations, and/or correspondence to senior leadership. This includes developing both recurring and ad hoc reports, and providing data-driven recommendations to leadership related to payroll, compensation, HR demographics, and other reporting systems.
Finally, this position is responsible for reviewing, processing, and calculating various salary actions such as salary changes, compensation adjustments, and rate changes as authorized. This includes maintaining accuracy of systems data and assisting in the resolution of discrepancies as appropriate.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Supports legal, regulatory, and compliance adherence by: providing others (e.g., clinicians, staff) with information on new or updated organizational and departmental policies, guidelines, procedures; and performing somewhat complex project related work in accordance with established federal, state, and local policies, guidelines, procedures, laws, regulations, collective bargaining agreements, and within established service expectations.


• Contributes to efforts to develop policies and procedures by: recommending policy updates based on synthesis of analyses pertaining to


• applicable functions and scope so that they reflect best practice, quality, and adhere to regulatory requirements, independently; and interpreting broad guidelines to write internal, function-level policies that adhere to departmental, organizational, and industry guidelines, and standards, independently.


• Contributes to monitoring and improving existing processes by: performing routine processes independently and complex processes under limited supervision, following defined requirements and accountable for achieving expected results for our customer; maintaining, optimizing, and ransforming standard and non-standard processes to increase efficiency of systems; recommending research plans that identify new and/or existing business operating models and innovative approaches to solutions support; collecting data to determine the nature and requirements of process related improvements, with limited guidance; providing updates to project personnel to ensure teams are aligned to gather information and implement process improvements, with limited direction; and drafting documentation to communicate updates, changes, or adjustments to function-wide training based on changes to systems, processes, accreditation, or compliance.


• Contributes to project execution and management efforts by: owning relationships with stakeholders within and across teams to ensure the project is successfully executed and project-based changes are implemented, with limited guidance; tracking, reporting, and coordinating multiple project-related to ensure expectations are met and risks and issues (e.g., scheduling) are identified and escalated, with limited guidance; and managing relationships with clients and stakeholders to ensure that all project-related expectations are clarified, understood, documented, and met, with limited guidance.


• Supports strategic business planning and development by: gathering, collating, and analyzing data via interviews, surveys, focus groups, and databases for the purposes of defining initiatives to achieve business objectives and informing key business decisions, with minimal day to day supervision; independently documenting project inputs, requirements, and potential risks in strategic business objectives and outcomes; and collaborating across teams to align on routine and unique project deliverables and timelines.


• Supports training efforts by: developing training requirements to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards with limited direction; delivering training programs to stakeholders and ensuring relevant training certifications are up to date and valid; and developing standard and non-standard project-based training curriculum for a wide variety of operations related activities.


• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.


• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.


• Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples.


• Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.


• Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.


• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.


• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information.


• Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations.


• Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum two (2) years experience in physician, advanced professional or executive HR operations, OR minimum two (2) years experience in credentialing, or a directly related field.


• Bachelors Degree in Business/Business Administration, Healthcare/ Healthcare Administration, or related field OR Minimum three (3) years of experience in data analytics, healthcare business operations or business process analytics, project management or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two (2) years healthcare experience.
• Two (2) years experience working with Excel.
• Two (2) years experience working directly with physicians.
• Two (2) years payroll experience.
• One (1) years of experience in process improvement.
• One (1) year experience communicating directly with executives.
• Two (2) years experience working in compensation.

Primary Location: California,Bakersfield,Bakersfield Administrative Offices
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Specialty: Operations
Department: Kern Admin Offices - Medical Office - 0806
Pay Range: $75400 - $97570 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: No
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest

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