Medical Director

St. Vincent De Paul Village
San Diego, CA, US
Full-time

Job Description

Job Description

Summary

This position is responsible for management of clinical staff for the Health Center. This position directly manages the Manager of Clinical Services, Addiction Medicine Program Lead, Psychiatry Program Lead, and a team of primary care and psychiatry providers (including MDs, DOs, and APPs).

As a clinician leader, this position provides direct primary care services to patients of the Village Health Center (VHC) within the scope of their training and approved privileges;

including diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic medical conditions in all age groups, preventative care, minor surgical procedures, and occasional medical emergencies.

VHC Providers are responsible for seeing scheduled patients as well as walk-ins, providing coverage during the operating hours of the VHC, providing telehealth services or phone-based consultation as needed, performing administrative tasks associated with the provision of care.

The Medical Director plays a critical role in quality assurance and improvement activities.

Essential Functions

  • Provides clinical leadership and oversight within a Federally Qualified Health Center serving patients who identify as homeless or are at-risk of homelessness.
  • Collaborates with health center leadership team to identify department-wide and clinically-focused strategic goals.
  • Provides support to plan, staff, budget and manages expenses for a department(s).
  • Recruits, screens, interviews, recommends, and approves management and non-management candidates for hire; conducts training;
  • assigns tasks and monitors work performance; writes and delivers performance appraisals; recommends salary actions; recommends and administers disciplinary action;

recommends and approves termination of employees and engages and retains a high-performing, accountable workforce.

  • Effectively communicates and collaborates with patients, other health professionals, clinical staff, and colleagues.
  • Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local standards in terms of clinical and operational regulations.
  • Develops, reviews, and approves clinical policies, procedures, workflows, and standing orders.
  • Keeps abreast of industry standards and best practices, engages in community resources and affiliations.
  • Participates in meetings, presentations, workgroups and / or learning collaboratives, as assigned.
  • Performs physical and mental health assessments / examinations to determine the presence of a medical and / or psychiatric disorder and establishes accurate diagnoses.
  • Prescribes medications as appropriate to treat medical and / or psychiatric conditions.
  • Orders laboratory and other diagnostic tests / imaging, as needed, to diagnose medical and / or psychiatric conditions.
  • Analyzes patient test results and determines appropriate follow-up.
  • Performs minor office-based surgical procedures (within the scope of the clinician’s privileging). Provides preventive care and health maintenance counseling and services.

Maintains thorough, timely, and accurate documentation in each patient’s electronic health record.

  • Reviews communications on multiple platforms; checking each at least once per working day.
  • Participates in review of operational and clinical issues in Health Center, process improvement and quality assurance projects.
  • Complies with all of the terms and provisions of law and ethical standards relating to the practice of medicine.
  • Devotes a sufficient amount of time each year to self-study, medical conferences and obtaining other adequate continuing medical education (CME) to maintain license to practice medicine in the State of California and board certifications.
  • Completes and maintains privileging and credentialing in the Health Center.
  • Assures on time completion of assigned training and policies.
  • Maintains a professional demeanor at all times at work.
  • Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate degree.
  • Board certified in Family Practice or Internal Medicine.
  • California Medical License and in good standing.
  • At least 1 year of experience working with an electronic medical record.
  • At least 8 years of medical care experience in a community clinic.
  • At least 5 years of leadership experience including recruitment, training, performance management, counseling, and retaining an engaged and accountable workforce
  • Proficient in project management and possesses the proven ability to communicate complex information both orally and verbally in an easily understood manner.
  • Intermediate user of MS Office.
  • Be at least 21 years of age with a minimum of 3 years of driving experience; possess a
  • Valid California driver's license; and has no Class 1 or more than two Class 2 violations within the past 36 months.
  • Participate in an annual Tuberculosis screening and / or other screenings when necessary.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be granted where appropriate
  • 5 days ago
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