Clinical Ethics Program Director
Clinical Ethics Program Director
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Job Description
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
The Clinical Ethics Program Director is responsible for the overall planning development implementation operation and evaluation of ethics consultation ethics education and integration with the Hospital Ethics Committee (Optimum Care Committee) at Massachusetts General Hospital. The aim of this work is to support and develop the ethical awareness and agency of all members of the organization related to clinical care. Areas of activity include ethics consultation education ethics committee participation research scholarship and policy development. The Director works in close coordination with the Physician Co-Director of Clinical Ethics and executive leadership of the organization to achieve these goals.Qualifications
Responsibilities:
Provides ethics consultation
Serves as primary ethics consultant a minimum of 10 days per month
Provides continuity of coverage related to ethics consults initially handled by other consultants
Responsible for day-to-day direction and coordination of the Ethics Consult Service including:
Manages call schedules for coverage of ethics consultation requests
Helps develop policies guidelines and educational materials to support the ethics consultation function
Helps facilitate ethics rounds in various hospital units
Helps direct the maintenance of the database of ethics consultation reports and trends
Manages ethics consultation evaluation and quality improvement
Ethics Committee
Coordinates with chairperson and Physician Co-Director of Clinical Ethics to accomplish Ethics Committee tasks of consultation education and policy development.
Provides case materials and coordinates clinical attendance.
Collaboratively manages administrative aspects of committee including membership requests for attendance maintenance of minutes.
Initiates new Ethics Committee members to history roles and responsibilities of membership.
Collaborates with chairperson to plan and implement development of the Ethics Committee.
Education
Provides ethics education as requested by clinical and administrative areas of the hospital.
Develops and maintains collaborative relationship with Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and other Harvard teaching hospitals through teaching collaborative networking and problem solving training resources and mentoring students clinicians and interns.
Oversees internal and external communication on clinical ethics issues.
Helps organize ethics grand rounds and other educational activities related to ethics.
Research
Encourages and collaborates on clinical ethics research activities.
Supports ethics resources in IRBs.
Participates in hospital committees as needed.
Maintains current knowledge of ethical trends and emerging knowledge legal issues related to ethics and ethical theory.
Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years clinical healthcare experience.
Advanced nursing or other clinical degree including social work
Advanced degree in bioethics
RN or MSW preferred
Experience in working with teams in a complex organization.
Current Ethics Consultation certification required or to be attained within first year of hire. Certification must be maintained while employed in this position.
Responsible for training supervision and delegation to Administrative Coordinator.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Remote Type
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Scheduled Weekly Hours
Employee Type
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Pay Range
$121908.80 - $177351.20/AnnualGrade
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
