Chief Clinical Officer

AMN Healthcare is the leader and innovator in total talent solutions for healthcare, bringing together the people, processes, and technology to deliver better care. With more than 2,700 corporate team members, AMN Healthcare placed over 96,000 healthcare professionals in 2025 and generated more than $2.7 billion in revenue – demonstrating the scale, reach, and strength of our impact across the healthcare industry.

Through a steadfast partnership approach, we solve the most pressing workforce challenges to enable better clinical outcomes and access to care. In 2025, our healthcare professionals reached more than 13 million patients at more than 2,300 healthcare systems, including 93 percent of the top healthcare systems nationwide. We provide a comprehensive network of quality healthcare professionals and deliver a fully integrated and customizable suite of workforce technologies.

The Chief Clinical Officer for AMN Healthcare is accountable for clinical quality, clinical leadership, and enterprise growth. Reporting to the CEO and serving on the CEO Committee, this executive leads our clinical delivery teams, owns clinical standards and care quality, leads AMN’s clinical brand internally and externally and embeds clinical excellence into how the organization operates and grows.

The CCO is an active partner in client management – participating directly in the sales process for major prospects, supporting the management of clinical relationships for current clients, leveraging external networks, and serving as a consultative clinical advisor to health systems. This role defines and operationalizes the clinician experience across the enterprise while strengthening industry relationships that drive long-term growth.

This position requires a credible clinical executive with operational discipline, commercial partnership mindset, strong clinical networks and authority to lead at scale.

Enterprise Clinical Quality, Governance & Care Delivery Excellence

• Provide executive oversight and accountability for regional clinical leader teams, ensuring high standards for clinical performance, professionalism, and effectiveness.
• Own the quality of clinical staff and clinical care delivery across the organization and for clients, with clear expectations, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement. Work closely with our clinical operations and credentialing teams to ensure a seamless, high quality experience.
• Establish, operationalize, and hold leaders accountable to consistent clinical governance, standards, and best practices.
• Translate clinical strategy into scalable, disciplined clinical leader processes that drive quality, consistency, and trust with clients.
• Serve as the executive authority on clinical matters, balancing quality, risk, and operational realities.

Revenue Growth Through Clinical Partnership & Commercial Enablement

• Partner closely with the commercial organization as an active participant in the sales and client development process, particularly for large, complex, and strategic opportunities.
• Leverage established health system and executive-level networks to develop, influence, and close major client relationships.
• Serve as a clinical executive peer and advisor to hospital and system leaders, bringing credibility and trust to commercial discussions.
• Drive revenue growth and long-term partnerships by embedding a consultative, clinically grounded approach into client engagement.
• Help shape deal strategy by aligning clinical value, quality, and outcomes to client needs and organizational growth objectives.

Enterprise Clinician Experience Strategy

• Own and articulate a clear point of view and enterprise framework for the clinician experience.
• Define how the clinician experience integrates across the organization—from operations to commercial strategy to clinical leadership.
• Translate clinician experience principles into practical, operational expectations for clinical leaders and teams.
• Ensure the clinician experience supports quality outcomes, engagement, retention, and growth—not as a concept, but as an executable model.
• Act as the executive steward for aligning clinician experience decisions with organizational priorities and performance.

Industry Influence, Health System Relationships & Thought Leadership

• Build and sustain high-impact relationships with hospital systems, health system executives, and clinical leaders across the industry.
• Drive growth through external partnerships and networks, positioning the organization as a trusted clinical and strategic partner.
• Represent the organization externally as a credible clinical leader and advisor, grounded in real care delivery and health system realities.
• Engage in selective thought leadership and industry participation that directly supports market credibility, relationship-building, and revenue strategy.
• Use industry presence to inform enterprise strategy, identify trends, and strengthen competitive positioning.

Qualifications & Experience

• Doctoral degree required (e.g., DNP, PhD); MD/DO also considered
• Open to physician and nursing executive leaders; licenses Registered Nurse or physician background required.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level clinical functions, including responsibility for other senior clinical leaders.
• Proven success operating in an executive leadership role with enterprise-wide responsibility and impact.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with C-suite leaders at hospital systems or complex healthcare organizations at a senior executive level.
• Proven ability to influence executives, clients, and internal stakeholders through credibility, clinical expertise, and results.
• Comfort operating at the intersection of clinical quality, clinical operations, and revenue growth, including participation in strategic client development efforts.
• Demonstrated alignment with AMN Healthcare’s core values by leading with integrity, accountability, and respect; intentionally shaping a culture of belonging and trust through transparency; maintaining a strong customer and clinician focus; and continuously advancing how clinical excellence is delivered across the organization.

AMN Healthcare will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential functions of the job.

Our Core Values

● Respect ● Passion ● Continuous Improvement ● Trust ● Customer Focus ● Innovation

At AMN we embrace the ways we are similar and different; respecting all voices and ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our collective success. We acknowledge our shared responsibility to foster a welcoming environment where everyone feels recognized and valued. We cast a wide net to recruit and retain competitive talent and build healthcare workforces supportive of the communities we serve. We believe in the power of compassion and collaboration to build healthy communities where access to quality care is available to all. Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

At AMN we recognize that in-person connections have value and promote collaboration. You will be expected to come into an AMN Healthcare office at a frequency dependent on the work arrangement for your role.