Physician - Correctional Facility

4 weeks ago

Florence, Arizona, United States Core Civic Full time
Job Title: Physician

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

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide a variety of professional medical services, 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.
  • Participate in treatment team meetings where individual health plans of inmates/residents are devised, reviewed, and altered.
  • Direct unit treatment operations.
  • Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
  • Hold clinics for nursing specialists in making diagnosis, 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, 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.
  • 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, using appropriate grammar, to include filing, alphabetizing, and labeling; review reports and records produced by medical staff; properly process all reports and documents in a timely manner.
  • 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 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.
  • Attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc., as required.
  • Provide for health counseling and health education on individual or group basis.
  • Communicate responsibilities, authorities, and accountability to all direct subordinates, so that they are clearly defined and understood.
  • 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; assist in maintaining communications and consistency of operation between shifts in the medical unit.
  • 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. This includes giving information, instructions, and directions, mediating disputes, and providing reliable testimony, in court and other formal settings.
  • 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 inquires; 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 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.
  • Domestic U.S. travel may be required.
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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