Title: Physician

Level: Senior

Reports To: Health Services Administrator

Travel Required: Travel Not Required

Visa Support: No VISA Sponsorships Supported

Location:

Will this hire need to report to a specific location? Yes, they must report in person to a particular area.

Signing Bonus: Yes

Bonus Description: Pay and Bonus Negotiable

Relocation Package: Full

Must-Haves:

• Graduate from an accredited school of medicine.
• Must be licensed to practice medicine in the state of employment.
• A valid driver's license is required.

Job Description:

Currently seeking a Physician who has a passion for providing the highest quality care in an institutional setting.

The Physician provides professional medical direction, oversight, and direct patient care in a correctional facility.

The successful applicant should be able to perform all of the following functions at a pace and level of performance consistent with the actual job performance requirements.

• Provide a variety of professional medical services to inmates/residents, including administering examinations, diagnosing medical and other problems, prescribing medications, and providing treatment and follow-up care.
• Provide direction in leadership for the medical program in collaboration with the Health Services Supervisor.
• Monitor and review the operations and standards of care delivered to inmates and residents.
• Interview inmates/residents and make decisions on admissions.
• Make clinical rounds
• Participate in treatment team meetings where individual health plans for inmates/residents are devised, reviewed, and revised.
• Direct unit treatment operations.
• Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
• Hold clinics for nursing specialists to facilitate diagnosis, determine treatment, and provide prescriptions and protocols.
• Maintain a good working relationship with facility staff, nursing staff, contract providers, and outside provider agencies.
• Utilize established corporate, facility, and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions, but use sound independent judgment in meeting the responsibilities and performing the duties of the position.
• Assist in the formulation of facility policies for the medical field.
• Motivate and encourage staff to perform their duties consistent with policy and procedures.
• Regularly evaluate the provision of all medical services to prevent the inappropriate use or duplication of those services.
• Monitor inmate/resident inpatient hospitalizations and facilitate early release whenever clinically appropriate.
• Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.
• Prepare and maintain a variety of standard narrative, statistical, summary, and/or operational records, reports, and logs, using appropriate grammar, to include filing, alphabetizing, and labeling; review reports and records produced by medical staff; properly process all reports and documents promptly.
• Maintain absolute security and confidentiality of all medical records.
• Audit medical files for documentation of all provided services.
• Evaluate and recommend methods of improving operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness of health-related services.
• Meet with outside hospital or agency administrators to ensure a close working relationship between them and the facility.
• Facilitate, where applicable, NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program by providing the required level of organizational efficiency and approved, appropriate medical services.
• Accept on-call status.
• Attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc., as required.
• Provide health counseling and health education on an individual or group basis.
• Clearly communicate responsibilities, authorities, and accountability to all direct subordinates so that they are well-defined and understood.
• Conduct meetings of subordinate staff, attend scheduled staff meetings, and promote communications and the proper flow of relevant information between administration, staff, and inmates/residents; assist in maintaining communications and consistency of operation between shifts in the medical unit.
• Communicate effectively and coherently with administration, staff, inmates/residents, visitors, and the general public, particularly in situations that require tact, diplomacy, understanding, fairness, firmness, and good judgment. This includes providing information, instructions, and directions, mediating disputes, and offering reliable testimony in court and other formal settings.
• Read, analyze, comprehend, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations and legal and non-legal documents, including the processing of such documents as medical instructions, commitment orders, summons, and other legal writs.
• Review, process, and respond to lawsuits (through corporate counsel); attend court hearings as necessary; research charts; and review the status of inmates and residents with serious health problems to ensure the completion of all the required interventions and treatments.
• Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policy; take appropriate action in cases of severe and unusual incidents and emergencies.
• Assist with investigations and inquiries; exercise independent judgment by determining when probable cause exists to recommend or take disciplinary action.
• Observe and record inmate/resident behavior.
• Inspect the medical unit for items that could be used as contraband by inmates or residents; securely store supplies and equipment or arrange for their safe disposal.
• Reliably and repetitively identify inmates/residents by visual means.
• Conduct searches of individuals and objects capable of concealing contraband, which will involve detecting and identifying potential contraband and detaining individuals.
• Engage in functions in confined areas that include physically checking doors, windows, and other places to verify they are secure.
• Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with the hostile views and opinions of inmates/residents and others, e.g., visitors and family members, encountered in an antagonistic environment.
• Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations.
• Perform rescue functions in accidents, emergencies, and disasters, including administering basic emergency medical aid, physically removing people away from dangerous situations, and securing and evacuating people from confined areas.
• Interpret, enforce, and comply with applicable rules, regulations, policies, procedures, standards, and/or contract requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others and handle challenging interpersonal interactions.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors, staff members, contractors, business contacts, representatives from governmental agencies, and the general public.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; apply management techniques to issues of administration and devise workable solutions.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Interpret a wide variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Remain alert at all times and react quickly, efficiently, and calmly in emergencies and other high-stress situations.
• Domestic United States travel may be required.