Medical Supervisor

Essential Responsibilities

• Manages and develops an effective staff: providing effective communication, leadership, guidance, and resources according to organizational policies and applicable laws and regulations.
• Determines staff qualifications and competency: recruits, interviews, selects, hires, trains, orients, mentors, evaluates, coaches, counsels, disciplines, and rewards.
• Establishes and monitors staff safety and regulatory compliance.
• Directs the daily operations of assigned unit(s) and schedules peer reviews and ensures adequate prescriber coverage is always maintained.
• The clinic is open.
• Ensures that practice guidelines and safe prescribing habits are consistent amongst the prescribers.
• Responsible for quality assurance in medication management including maintaining standard of care and documentation.
• Recommends changes to improve service delivery and implements changes and new programming.
• Safeguards at least 5 peer reviews per provider are completed each month.
• Provides clinical expertise in crisis intervention, skills in working with the chronically mentally ill population, and with individuals and families undergoing acute episodes of psychiatric distress, skills in diagnosis and assessment.
• Familiarity with community support systems, health care and human service resources, court, and police activities, etc.

Other Duties

Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Or Managerial Responsibility

Supervises prescribing staff in assigned clinic(s).

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters or Doctorial level degree (PA, NP, MD, DO)
• At least three years of professional experience in mental health or human services.
• Experience managing others preferred.
• Current DEA number required.
• Appropriate professional registration/certification by state/national authority required.