Clinical Bioethicist

Job Title: Clinical Bioethicist

About the University of Rochester
The University of Rochester is a world-renowned institution dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving lives. As a leader in education, research, and patient care, we strive to foster a culture of excellence, inclusivity, and collaboration.

Salary: $109,000 - $164,000 per annum

Job Description:

Responsibilities:
• Serve as Director, Clinical Nurse Ethics
• Oversee and facilitate nursing ethics activities, including needs assessments and evaluate quality and potential impact on patients, families, and nursing staff
• Conduct ethics and moral distress debriefing for clinical staff
• Serve as a member of the clinical ethics consultation team
• Develop programs designed to ameliorate moral distress
• Contribute to the ethics teaching and scholarship in SMD & potentially in SON undergrad, graduate, and professional settings in collaboration with faculty in bioethics and in health humanities
• Develop curricular material to promote nursing leadership in hospital ethics activities
• Organize and manage the annual bioethics conference
• Attend monthly HHBE and Nursing Practice Executive Council
• Serve on URSMD committees, as appropriate
• Build interprofessional collaborations around moral issues inherent in-patient care
• Work with colleagues in Nursing, Medicine, Hospital Administration, and other disciplines to develop and integrate programs that assure excellence in ethics education

Qualifications:
Candidates must have an excellent record of quality ethics teaching and scholarship, and significant experience in clinical ethics consultation. This position requires a doctoral degree relevant to clinical bioethics, nursing ethics, and medical ethics (PhD, DNP, DrPH or equivalent). Candidates will have evidence of substantial educational and clinical work related to moral distress in healthcare. Certification as a healthcare ethics consultant is preferred. Significant clinical ethics experience with healthcare trainees across the learning continuum and in interprofessional settings is essential, with particular expertise in clinical ethics, organizational ethics, death and dying, and cultural issues relevant to healthcare.