SUMMARY: Under the direct supervision of the Executive Director of Health and Medical Services, the Contract Medical Director is responsible for all services, including pediatric and psychiatric services delivered by Bluestone Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital. Specifically, the Medical Director shall provide the clinical and administrative medical oversight of a twelve-bed child and adolescent psychiatric hospital and shall ensure that medial services at the hospital are provided in a manner that is consistent with state and federal regulations and in compliance with accreditation standards. Further, this individual will be responsible for contributing to quality improvement initiatives and for informing privileging and competency assessment in collaboration with other members of the medical staff. Moreover, the Medical Director will clinically supervise the prescribing staff and the Nursing Director. The Medical Director will also assign prescribers on-call duties and will provide back up on call services (via telephone) as needed.
Responsibilities Include:
- Provide psychiatric direction and administration including, but not limited to, contribute to medical and psychiatric policy and procedural guidelines as needed.
- Contribute to quality improvement initiatives, in collaboration with the Director of Health and Medical Services.
- Serves as a member of the medical staff and helps set, define and uphold the Bylaws and Rules and Regulations
- Provides clinical oversight to all hospital operations.
- Provide clinical supervision to staff prescribers as needed.
- Lead the medical team in determinations related to privileging and competency evaluation.
- Oversee rounds and the discussion of complex patients on a weekly basis.
- Provide patient specific and system specific consultation to advance the medical services provided at the hospital.
- Provide clinical supervision to staff psychiatrists and advanced practice nurses, as well as clinical oversight for the Nursed Executive and director of Clinical Services.
- Ensure the prescribing staff is regularly updated about best practices in psychiatric care.
- Determine training needs of medical staff including but not limited to: pharmacology specific to the population, risk management, adherence to medical bylaws and infection control.
- Contribute to design and implementation of protocols for all-staff training, risk management, environmental safety and pharmacy services.
- Coordinate on-call (telephone) duties of prescribers.
- Adhere to departmental policies, procedures and objectives, ongoing quality improvement objectives and safety, environmental and infection control standards.
Qualifications:
- Education: M.D. or D. O. degree from an accredited United States medical school required. Successful completion of residency in Psychiatry with fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
- Experience: Experience working with children and adults diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder preferred.
- Availability: Averaging 2-4 hours per week for Bluestone.
- Licensure: Current Ohio Medical Practitioner License; Current Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Department of Public Safety (DPS) registration for prescription writing.
- Competency/Skills:
- Professionalism: Demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to diverse patient populations.
- Patient Care and Procedural Skills: Provide care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective treatment for health problems and to promote health.
- Medical Knowledge: Demonstrate knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate sciences and their application in patient care.
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: Able to investigate and evaluate their patient care practices, appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and improve their practice of medicine.
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Demonstrate skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and professional associates (e.g., fostering a therapeutic relationship that is ethically sound, uses effective listening skills with nonverbal and verbal communication; working as both a team member and at times as a leader).
- Systems-Based Practice: Demonstrate awareness of and responsibility to larger context and systems of healthcare. Be able to call on system resources to provide optimal care.
Job Type: Contract
License/Certification:
- BC/BE (Preferred)
- Medical License (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- University Heights, OH 44118 (Preferred)
Work Location: In person