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Job Title: Medical Director

We are seeking a highly skilled Medical Director to join our team at Uptown Psych, a premier outpatient mental health clinic in Chicago. As a Medical Director, you will play a crucial role in establishing, implementing, and maintaining clinical and operational processes related to benefit coverage determinations, quality improvement, and cost-effectiveness of service for patients.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with operational leadership and staff to develop and implement clinical and operational processes.
  • Assess and recommend clinician/provider staffing needs.
  • Provide ad hoc reporting as needed.
  • Assist in clinical staff recruiting.
  • Oversight of onboarding/training of new clinicians.
  • Champion quality assurance programs.
  • Champion quality management programs.
  • Champion patient safety through RLDatix reporting/reviews.
  • Serve as supervisor/consultant for clinicians and providers within their assigned center.
  • Contribute to initiatives for clinical staff continuing education credits.
  • Participate in clinician/provider performance evaluations, improvement plans, and termination decisions.
Requirements:
  • Requires MD or DO degrees, ABPN certification.
  • Requires a minimum of 3 years post-residency clinical work experience.
  • Ability and willingness to provide services to adults and adolescents.
  • Ability and willingness to service patients primarily on an outpatient basis.
  • Flexibility to meet when patients are available to meet, including a minimum of one evening per week.
  • Strong clinical acumen and competence in providing outpatient psychotherapy.
  • Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to respect diversity and integrate issues of culture into case conceptualizations.
  • Ability to engage with patients who may be ambivalent about treatment.
  • Ability to adapt interventions to patients' strengths, skills, and developmental levels.
  • Commitment to empowering patients to solve their problems when necessary.
  • Ability to intervene decisively, when necessary, to protect patient safety.
  • Ability to comply with clinic documentation standards and best professional practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 3+ years in a leadership capacity, preferred.
  • Previous experience operating within outpatient clinic setting (preferred).
  • Ability to establish effective therapeutic relationships.
  • Sufficient technology application or technology product understanding to learn and understand software products at a detailed level.
  • Organizational and time management skills.
  • Strong communication skills, relationship building, and conflict management skills.
  • Excellent listening skills.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
Working Conditions:
  • Environment – Office environment, up to 10% travel may be required.
  • Physical Requirements – Sitting, standing, walking, and using a keyboard.

Uptown Psych is a proud Refresh Mental Health network member—a nationwide network that includes leading private practices with unique and specialized programs. This relationship allows us to maintain our local leadership and solid reputation in the community. It also enhances our practice with additional resources, infrastructure, and operational support, allowing you to focus on what you do best—providing exemplary care to your clients.

Uptown Psych is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values a diverse workplace. We are committed to building a team that is inclusive of all people, including those of LGBTQIA+ communities, members of all ethnic groups, people with disabilities and medical conditions, foreign-born residents, and veterans. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Refresh is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.