Medical Director
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Job Location:
Tucson, AZ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Medical Director - Sierra Tucson Tucson Arizona
At Sierra Tucson leadership is more than oversightits presence compassion and a commitment to life-changing care.
For four decades Sierra Tucson has been recognized as a sanctuary for healing serving adults with addiction mental health conditions trauma/PTSD and co-occurring disorders. Our 124-bed facility set across 160 peaceful acres offers an environment where patients can truly focus on recoveryand where physicians can practice meaningful relationship-driven medicine.
As Medical Director You Will:
- Provide clinical vision and leadership in a nationally respected treatment program
- Collaborate with an experienced multidisciplinary team dedicated to whole-person care
- Influence quality innovation and outcomes in evidence-based behavioral health treatment
- Maintain direct connection with patients while mentoring and supporting medical staff
- Help shape programs that address the complex intersection of mental health and addiction
This is an opportunity for a physician who wants to move beyond transactional care and make a lasting impactguiding both patients and teams toward resilience recovery and hope.
For more detials please contact - or call/text: 615.861.7581
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the quality efficiency and management of delivering services within a facility.
- Define protocols and assist in decision making pertaining to the medical and clinical care of patients.
- Provide direct patient care and assist other departments with direct interactions with physicians staff.
- Directly supervise other professional clinical staff as well as administrative or support staff.
- Serve as a liaison between the medical staff and other staff within the facility division or corporate staff and organizational leadership.
- Monitor and supervise assigned staff to adherence to established medical and clinical policy.
- Provide back up call coverage.
- Serve in a teaching capacity for the training and development of other personnel.
- Secure physical exam and history from the patients.
- Request appropriate diagnostic testing clinical evaluation and prescribe medications and treatments.
- Assist in the management of behavioral or mental health problems of patients and maintain current clinical medical records in accordance with federal or state regulation and industry practice as well as facility clinic or corporate policies and procedures.
- Manage the finances and revenue of the facility including budgets billing and spending.
- Develop organizational goals and objectives and devise strategies and policies to meet those goals.
- Develop approve implement and update the general policies protocols and procedures of the facility.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Doctoral degree in Medicine (MD or DO) required.
- Board certified in Psychiatry required.
- Previous experience as a Medical Director preferred
Licenses/Certifications:
- Current unrestricted license to practice medicine by the state in which the facility operates.
- Current DEA credentials to prescribe controlled substances without restrictions and per regulation within the state in which the practitioner will be working.
Acadia Healthcare
23500 Employees 11400 Beds 258 Locations 38 States 1 Network
As a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services in the United States and Puerto Rico Acadia Healthcare operates 258 treatment facilities across 38 states. Our network of treatment facilities offers multiple levels of care for various behavioral health and substance use disorders. At Acadia our primary goal is to meet patients where theyre at in their treatment process. We do this by providing a multitude of levels of care including detoxification residential treatment for substance use residential treatment for dual diagnosis acute psychiatric inpatient hospitalization medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services and an array of outpatient programming options ranging from partial hospitalization programs (PHPs) and intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) to traditional outpatient services. Our expansive network of treatment facilities creates greater access to care reduces the stigma associated with mental illness and substance use and offers those in our communities a safe environment in which to receive the treatment they need.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individuals characteristics protected by applicable state federal and local laws.
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Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Post Residency Experience
- Occupational Health Experience
- Clinical Research
- Managed Care
- Primary Care Experience
- Medical Management
- Utilization Management
- Clinical Development
- Clinical Trials
- Leadership Experience
- Medicare
