Medical Director

About the role

AHCH has been dedicated since 1985 to providing services to people experiencing homelessness. We offer a comprehensive continuum of integrated care through outreach and site-based services to address the health-related aspects of homelessness. Our vision is to live in a world where homelessness is not an issue, and we strive to achieve this through access to quality health care, affordable housing, and a fair wage.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership and work with other disciplines toward integrative approaches to patient care.
• Supervise physicians, nurse practitioners, psych nurse practitioners, and pharmacist clinicians.
• Engage in performance management and coaching/development of medical staff through performance reviews and regular feedback.
• Serve as a cross-department clinical resource for AHCH staff.
• Collaborate with other staff in treatment planning and provide in-service trainings.
• Oversee, in conjunction with Practice Operations Manager, the training and department-specific onboarding of new medical staff and volunteer providers.
• Implement peer review process for medical providers.
• Coordinate clinical precepting and clinical orientation and training of medical students and residents.
• Implement periodic review and update of formulary.
• Care for AHCH patients hospitalized and through medical respite upon release.
• Participate in annual planning, budget, and service goal development for medical program.
• Serve as liaison to UNM School of Medicine, hospitals and professional organizations, other safety net system providers.
• Network with NM Department of Health, NM Primary Care Association, and other community agencies to ensure coordinated practices and unduplicated delivery of services.
• Aid in the development of the electronic health record templates and patient portal and assist in training of the EHR in the medical program.
• Represent AHCH and mission/priorities/objectives in public presentations.
• Participate on management team, manager/coordinator meetings regularly and board meetings periodically.
• Ensure QI/QA and compliance of medical practice; serves as member of QI Oversight Workgroup.
• Develop and implement AHCH medical/clinical policies and procedures, including integration with other programs.

Qualifications

• Ability to thrive in a complex non-profit healthcare setting.
• Ability to work with peers to lead change, high performance, and innovation.
• Proven track record of effectively leading in a direct service organization with a complex array of programs.
• Capacity to mentor providers to acquire specific skills, develop professional growth, and produce providers that will make significant contributions to the organization and team.
• Ability to have long-term strategic vision balanced with addressing day-to-day issues.
• Be a mission-driven leader with a preference to work in a values-base, patient-centered organization.
• Ability to analyze data and use data to communicate relationship between accomplishing service/productivity goals to financial sustainability of the organization.
• Have a strong desire to work in an integrated/cross-disciplinary team model.
• Current MD or DO licensed or eligible to practice in New Mexico with a specialty in primary care, addiction medicine, urgent care, or related field.
• Current DEA and CSR license.
• 5 or more years of progressive leadership experience in a healthcare setting.
• Previous experience with outreach/street medicine.
• Clinical experience with underserved populations, those with SMI/CMI, and substance abuse disorder.
• Previous experience working in a FQHC.
• Bilingual Spanish/English.