Physician - Correctional Facility

2 days ago

Florence, South Carolina, United States Core Civic Full time
Job Summary

CoreCivic is seeking a highly skilled Physician to join our team in a correctional facility setting. As a Medical Director, you will be responsible for providing professional medical direction, oversight, and direct patient care to inmates/residents.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • Direct the medical program in collaboration with the Health Services Supervisor, monitoring and reviewing operations and standards of care delivered to inmates/residents.
  • Interview inmates/residents and make decisions on admissions, participate in treatment team meetings, and direct unit treatment operations.
  • Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary, and hold clinics for nursing specialists in making diagnoses, determining treatment, and giving 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, using sound independent judgment in meeting the responsibilities and performing the duties of the position.
  • 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/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.
  • Maintain absolute security and confidentiality of all medical records, audit medical files for documentation of all provided services, and 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 between them and the facility, facilitate NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program, and accept on-call status.
  • Attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc., as required, provide health counseling and health education on an individual or group basis, and communicate responsibilities, authorities, and accountability to all direct subordinates.
  • 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.
  • Communicate effectively and coherently to administration, staff, inmates/residents, visitors, and the general public, particularly in situations requiring tact, diplomacy, understanding, fairness, firmness, and good judgment.
  • Read, analyze, comprehend, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations, 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 (via corporate counsel) to lawsuits, attend court hearings when necessary, conduct research of charts, review the status of inmates/residents with serious health problems for completion of all necessary intervention and treatment.
  • Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policy, take appropriate action in cases of serious and unusual incidents and emergencies, assist with investigations and inquiries, and 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/residents, securely store supplies and equipment or provide for their safe disposal.
  • Reliably and repetitively identify inmates/residents by visual means, perform searches of people and objects capable of concealing contraband, which will involve detecting and identifying objects and detaining people.
  • Engage in functions in confined areas that include such things as physically checking the doors, windows, and other areas to verify they are secure.
  • Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with the hostile views and opinions of inmates/residents and other, e.g., visitors and family members, encountered in an antagonistic environment.
  • Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations, perform rescue functions at 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 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, apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
  • 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.
Qualifications
  • 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.
  • Minimum age requirement: Must be at least 18 years of age.

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