Medical Director for Outpatient Behavioral Health Services
Medical Director for Outpatient Behavioral Health Services
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Are you a current UMass Memorial Health caregiver CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.
Everyone Is a Caregiver
At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leadingedge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.
Major Responsibilities:
1. Ensuring proper medication management for ambulatory patients.
2. Provide supervision to providers (MDs and NPs) in the designated areas.
3. Member of the Behavioral Health Leadership Team including Vice President of Behavioral Health Chief Psychiatry Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry Director of Nursing Director of Operations and Director of Outpatient Behavioral Health services.
4. Lead monthly outpatient prescribers meetings.
5. Along with Vice President Medical Director of Outpatient will be involved in the integration and development of ambulatory services across the UMass system working closely with other hospital Medical Directors and department directors.
6. Consultation to community medical providers assessment of complex cases and ongoing treatment of identified patients.
7. Caseload and productivity review established and asneeded supervision and hiring of new providers
8. Development of prescribing methodology in the various programs.
9. Continuous improvement and review of protocols for treatment options for all of the Outpatient (Mental Health and Addiction) departments.
10. Policy development and implementation.
Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:
1. Directs and supervises assigned personnel including performance evaluations scheduling orientation and training. Makes recommendations on employee hires transfers promotions salary changes discipline terminations and similar actions. Resolves grievances and other personnel problems within position responsibilities.
2. Manages activities to assure financial goals are met.
3. Coordinates the assignment of tasks and helps resolve technical and operational problems. Evaluates the impact of solutions to ensure goals are achieved.
4. Provides effective direction guidance and leadership for staff for effective teamwork and motivation and fosters the effective integration of efforts with systemwide initiatives.
5. Encourages and supports diverse views and approaches demonstrates Standards of Respect and contributes in creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism respect tolerance civility and acceptance toward all employees patients and visitors.
6. Integrates diversity into departmental objectives such as hiring promotions training vendor selections etc.
7. Participates in performance improvement initiatives and demonstrates the use of quality improvement in daily operations.
8. Ensures compliance with regulatory agencies such as Joint Commission DPH etc. Develops and maintains procedures necessary to meet regulatory requirements.
9. Ensures that department complies with hospital established policies quality assurance programs safety and infection control policies and procedures.
10. Develops and maintains established departmental policies procedures and objectives.
11. Ensures compliance with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
12. Maintains regular reliable and predictable attendance.
13. Performs similar or related duties as required or directed.
14. All responsibilities are essential job functions.
Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education:
Required:
1. Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry
2. Active Massachusetts Medical License
3. Active Massachusetts Controlled Substances Registration
4. Active DEA Certification
Experience/Skills:
Required:
1. 5 years experience as psychiatrist
2. Experience working among other hospital departments
3. Knowledge of risk management and quality assurance processes
4. Familiarity with accreditation process experience with dual diagnosis and medications to treat substance use disorders. Experience with methadone preferred.
5. Minimum of six months of clinical experience with alcohol and other drugdependent persons or 40 hours of documented continuing education credit in treating SUD within the first 12 months of employment.
Unless certification licensure or registration is required an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.
Departmentspecific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.
Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:
Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
