Physician - Correctional Facility Medical Director

4 weeks ago

Florence, Arizona, United States Core Civic Full time

Job Summary

CoreCivic is seeking a skilled Physician to provide professional medical direction, oversight, and direct patient care in a correctional facility setting.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering high-quality care and possess excellent leadership and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide a variety of professional medical services to inmates, including administering examinations, diagnosing medical problems, prescribing medications, and providing treatment and follow-up care.
  • Direct the medical program in collaboration with the Health Services Supervisor.
  • Monitor and review operations and standards of care delivered to inmates.
  • Interview inmates and make decisions on admissions.
  • Make clinical rounds and participate in treatment team meetings.
  • Direct unit treatment operations and perform minor and occasional major surgery.
  • 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.
  • Assist in the formulation of facility policy for the medical department.
  • 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 hospitalizations and facilitate early release whenever clinically appropriate.
  • Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.
  • Prepare and maintain various standard narrative, statistical, summary, and operational records, reports, and logs.
  • 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/agency administrators to ensure a close working relationship.
  • Facilitate NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program.
  • Accept on-call status and attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc.
  • Provide health counseling and health education on an individual or group basis.
  • Communicate responsibilities, authorities, and accountability to direct subordinates.
  • Conduct meetings of subordinate staff and promote communications and consistency of operation between shifts.
  • Communicate effectively and coherently to administration, staff, inmates, visitors, and the general public.
  • Read, analyze, comprehend, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations, legal and non-legal documents.
  • Review, process, and respond to lawsuits; attend court hearings, when necessary.
  • Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policy.
  • Assist with investigations and inquiries; exercise independent judgment by determining when probable cause exists to recommend or take disciplinary action.
  • Observe and record inmate behavior.
  • Inspect the medical unit for items that could be used as contraband by inmates.
  • Reliably and repetitively identify inmates by visual means.
  • Perform searches of people and objects capable of concealing contraband.
  • Engage in functions in confined areas, including physically checking doors, windows, and other areas to verify they are secure.
  • Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with hostile views and opinions of inmates and other individuals.
  • Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations.
  • Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies, and disasters.
  • Interpret, enforce, and comply with applicable rules, regulations, policies, procedures, standards, and/or contract requirements.
  • Establish and maintain effective working relations with others and handle difficult interpersonal contacts.
  • 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 problems of administration and devise workable solutions.
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
  • Interpret an extensive variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Remain alert at all times and react quickly, efficiently, and calmly in emergency and other high-stress situations.
  • Domestic U.S. travel may be required.

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