Physician - Correctional Facility

2 weeks ago

Florence, Arizona, United States Core Civic Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Physician to join our team at CoreCivic. As a Physician, you will provide professional medical direction, oversight, and direct patient care in a correctional facility.

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.
  • Provide direction in leadership for the medical program in collaboration with the Health Services Supervisor.
  • Monitor and review operations and standards of care delivered to inmates/residents.
  • Interview inmates/residents and make decisions on admissions.
  • Make clinical rounds and participate in treatment team meetings where individual health plans of inmates/residents are devised, reviewed, and altered.
  • Direct unit treatment operations and perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
  • 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 policy for the medical program and 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 and 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 and 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 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 and 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 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; exercise independent judgment by determining when probable cause exists to recommend or take disciplinary action.
  • Observe and record inmate/resident behavior and 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 and 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 to include 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.

CoreCivic is a Drug Free Workplace & EOE– M/F/Vets/Disabled.

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