Associate General Counsel - General Health Law

Description

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Summary:

The Associate General Counsel - General Health Law provides advanced level legal advice and legal services in support of UNC Health's participation in the North Carolina Rural Organizations Orchestrating Transformation for Sustainability (ROOTS) Hub as part of the State's Rural Health Transformation Program. As the NC ROOTS Region 4 Hub Lead, UNC Health collaborates with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), healthcare organizations, and community partners to improve the health and well-being of rural populations across Region 4 and throughout North Carolina.

This position is responsible for providing legal oversight and counsel related to Hub operations, including contract review and negotiation, regulatory interpretation, compliance oversight, subrecipient and partnership agreement execution, audit response activities, policy development, and other legal matters necessary to support the implementation and sustainability of the ROOTS initiative. The role also provides guidance regarding federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, organizational risk, governance, and operational matters impacting the Hub and its partners.

Responsibilities:
1. Documentation Preparation: Prepares, reviews and negotiates contracts for services, real property, supplies, equipment, information services, software. Prepares, reviews and negotiates documents for complex transactions with other providers and payors. Prepares and reviews other documents to assist the business and clinical functions of Health Care System. Develops systems to facilitate contract initiation, renewal and alteration to support ongoing needs.
2. Legal Advice and Counsel Business :Provides legal advice and counsel to administration and management regarding corporate, business and operational issues, reimbursement, employee relations and personnel management. Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group situations presents ideas in clear, concise and organized manner, knows when to use written rather than oral communications. Keeps abreast of legal developments in these areas of law, understands operational needs and practicalities, places problems in context. Identifies and focuses on appropriate issues, seeks available information and facts and makes good, logical decisions, thinks independently and consults with others as appropriate. Anticipates potential impacts of a decision or deals with problems arising from a decision.
3. Legal Advice and Counsel: Provides legal advice and counsel to administration and clinical staff regarding complex issues including professional liability, medical-legal matters, medical staff bylaws, credentialing. Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group situations presents ideas in clear, concise and organized manner, knows when to use written rather than oral communications. Keeps abreast of legal developments in these areas of law, understands operational needs and practicalities, places problems in context. Identifies and focuses on appropriate issues, seeks available information and facts and makes good, logical decisions, thinks independently and consults with others as appropriate. Anticipates potential impacts of a decision or deals with problems arising from a decision.
4. Policy Development: Develops and reviews policies and procedures for business and clinical functions. Participates in managerial conferences to determine the proper course of action in administrative and policy matters. Serves on committees and assists in the formulation and implementation of policies and practices.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited school of law.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* Licensed to practice law in the state of North Carolina or be able to obtain a valid NC license to practice law within a year of hire
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Five (5) years of relevant experience in a hospital, health care environment or law firm
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Shared Services

Organization Unit: NC ROOTS Grant

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Morrisville

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.