MEDICAL DIRECTOR

Medical Director

The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a Medical Director with an Illinois Physician and Surgeon License with a specialty in Psychiatry. Board Certification is required to provide medical leadership and oversight of the psychiatry services provided at the Chester Mental Health Center in Chester, Illinois. Chester Mental Health Center strives to assist patients to achieve their full recovery potential and values culture, safety, recovery, efficiency and quality.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as Medical Director for Chester Mental Health Center.
• Serves as full-line supervisor.
• Develops, plans for and monitors implementation of ancillary medical services, including dentistry, optometry, Electroencephalogram (EEG) and all contractual medical services.
• Directs, designs and implements policies, procedures and verifies compliance with all accrediting regulatory agents.
• Provides psychiatry services by examining, treating and monitoring individual patients' medical needs.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires a valid State of Illinois Physician and Surgeon License.
• Requires American Board Certification in the job-related medical specialty of psychiatry.
• Requires three (3) years of substantive medical administrative experience in the directing, planning and evaluating a medical/clinical program.

About the Agency:

The Illinois Department of Human Services uplifts individuals and communities across Illinois. Our mission is to respond to the needs of all people in Illinois so they can lead healthy, safe, and enriched lives. Our vision is the future we are shaping with dignity and the well-being for everyone in Illinois. Our values are the principles that guide us as we work to remove systemic barriers and create lasting opportunities with Compassion, Accessibility, Responsibility, and Equity.