General Pediatrics-Quality and Safety Director
General Pediatrics-Quality and Safety Director
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Job Description
Location:
Geisinger South WilkesBarre (GSWB)Shift:
Days (United States of America)Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40Worker Type:
RegularExemption Status:
YesJob Summary:
The Department of Pediatrics at the Geisinger Janet Weis Childrens Hospital is actively recruiting a dynamic and experienced general pediatrician with a strong interest in quality and safety to join our extensive pediatric primary care service. The successful candidate will have the option to practice in either WilkesBarre Pittston or Mountain Top PA. The successful candidate will help advance our strong commitment to quality and safety while delivering exceptional familycentered pediatric care.This position offers a blend of clinical practice 80 and leadership in quality and safety 20.
Job Duties:
Clinical Practice: Provide comprehensive pediatric primary care as part of our regional practices collaborating with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to deliver familycentered equitable safe and best practice healthcare to children.
Quality and Safety Leadership: The Director will utilize protected time to lead outpatient pediatric quality and safety initiatives. This includes advancing current successes and developing strategies to further enhance patient safety culture and ensuring adherence to best practices. The Director will access to multiple data bases that incorporate internal and collaborative metrics that allow us to track success and identify opportunities in pediatric quality and safety.
Professional Development: Engage in ongoing personal education in quality and safety with opportunities to educate peers and learners.
Reporting Structure: This position reports directly to the Vice Chair of Pediatrics General Pediatrics.
Qualifications:
Boardcertified General Pediatrics.
Demonstrated experience of at least 5 years in general pediatrics with strong intertest in pediatric outpatient quality and safety initiatives.
Additional leadership and or Quality and Safety experience strongly desired.
Opportunity Details
Full time
24/7 hospitalist coverage
Large call coverage group
Stable group over 10 years
New position to increase patient access
Teaching opportunities
EMR EPIC
Incentives/Benefits
Forgivable recruitment loan
Relocation assistance
Generous CME
Comprehensive benefits package
Claims made malpractice insurance and tail coverage
Robust retirement plans
Position Details:
Education:
Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (Required)Experience:
Certification(s) and License(s):
Licensed Medical Doctor State of PennsylvaniaSkills:
Patient Care And Procedural Skills Professional Etiquette SystemsBased PracticeOUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients our members our students our Geisinger family and our communities.
- KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
- EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
- LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
- INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients our members our community and the nation.
- SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one including vision dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration cooperation and collegiality.
We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
