Medical Director of Specialty Services

Responsibilities

• Oversee the highest quality evidence-based specialty clinical care to SEARHC patients and other appropriate treatments in the outpatient setting.
• Provides consultation and guidance to non-physician medical staff providers and, when necessary, provides supervision and practice plan oversight.
• Provides consultation and clinical advice for SEARHC medical staff colleagues.
• Documents all patient services in the medical record per SEARHC medical staff rules and regulations.
• Participate in ongoing medical education to maintain licensure and board certification.
• Provides clinical supervision, coaching, mentoring, teaching, and guidance to specialty and primary care medical staff and other team members/leaders as appropriate.
• Reviews the quality of medical provider records and actions.
• Keeps current on emerging models and directions in specialty and primary care health care delivery; identify and define new, emerging, novel, and innovative strategies to achieve health system quality and financial goals.
• Uses communication strategies that align, build trust, motivate, inform, promote information exchange, and enhance teamwork within the Specialty Health Division and across the consortium.
• Serves as a champion and change agent to promote clinical quality improvement, optimization of services, improved access to care, fiscal responsibility, excellent customer service, and value throughout all SEARHC communities with special attention paid to the unique challenges for those living and working in smaller remote towns and villages.
• Assists with development of quality measures and leads efforts to improve clinical measures of performance for the DNV, the Joint Commission, HRSA, SEARHC organizational strategic plan initiatives, etc.
• Serves as a liaison between SEARHC and external vendors for specialty care review.
• Supports DNV or the Joint Commission (TJC) and HRSA accreditation requirements and maintains standards for ongoing clinical compliance.
• Assists in updating medical provider recruitment plans and participates in medical provider recruitment and interviewing as indicated.
• Fosters teamwork and collaborative efforts within clinics and within other departments that promote integration of clinic services.
• Builds and maintains healthy clinical working relationships with outside agencies, clinics, and hospitals to improve care for SEARHC patients.
• Supports and fulfills the activities and committees of the MEC as appropriate, including annual reviews, case reviews, clinical standards expectations.
• Provides clinical advice, input, and direction for new and/or emerging treatments and services.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• Current unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Alaska.
• DEA Registration.
• Ongoing board certification in primary care or chosen specialty.
• Ongoing current certification for clinical practice (e.g., BLS, PALS, ACLS as required by practice location).
• At least 5 years’ post-residency direct patient care clinical experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience as a medical director or in a progressive medical leadership role.