Medical Director

Introduction

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Summary Statement


Serves as the senior physician executive for the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH), providing clinical leadership and oversight for psychiatric and behavioral health services statewide, including the Delaware Psychiatric Center. Oversees medical staff and clinical programs, serves as the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for the ACGME Sponsoring Institution, supervises the Residency Program Director, and provides executive leadership to the Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) to ensure excellence in patient care, physician training, accreditation compliance, quality improvement, and patient safety.


Essential Functions


Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class. Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, incumbents can complete job duties of similar kind not specifically listed here.

• Performs physical examinations, assesses condition, makes diagnoses, orders laboratory tests and makes recommendations and referrals.
• Prescribes treatment, monitors patient's progress and adapts treatments.
• Performs outpatient surgical procedures in scheduled and emergency situations.
• Makes rounds with medical and nursing personnel; explains history, course of treatment, and current status of assigned cases; takes part in conferences concerning cases; recommends future treatment or action; counsels individuals and relatives about physical, medical and mental conditions.
• Prepares various records such as progress notes and summaries; writes orders.
• Instructs nursing and related medical staff in specific treatments.
• Develops and administers comprehensive plans to ensure the most positive prognosis available.
• Provide individuals and families with information regarding physical and medical status.

Medical Director
This is the administrative level responsible for directing, planning, coordinating and implementing all health-related services of in-patient, clinical or community services.

• Manages through subordinate supervisors a variety of staff functions including but not limited to physicians, nurses, clinic managers, and program administrators.
• Develops, implements, evaluates and oversees medical, clinical and administrative policies and procedures for health services.
• Develops, implements and evaluates new/revised programs/services that may include private health care providers to meet the growing needs of communities/patients/clients.
• Determines staffing, budgetary and grant needs/requirements and manages budgetary and staffing resources.
• Serves on advisory boards and committees and participates in medical organizations.
• Contacts are typically with staff, researchers, private health care providers, community organizations and interest groups, health professionals and national/professional organizations for the purposes of managing and providing health care services and discussing medical programs/management issues and regulations.

Job Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS for Medical Director
Applicants must have education, training and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

1. Possession of a Delaware Physician M.D. or Delaware Physician D.O. license or eligibility for a Delaware license.
2. Three years experience in health or human services program administration such as overseeing and directing the development, implementation and evaluation of health or human services programs and services; planning and establishing short and long range program goals and objectives. Providing advice to other agency organizational units through consultation.
3. Three years experience in developing policies and procedures.
4. Three years experience in practicing medicine in a hospital, clinic or private practice.

Conditions of Hire


Pre-employment Drug Testing: Upon a conditional offer, you must undergo pre-employment drug testing as part of the hiring process.


Criminal background check: A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire. The recruiting agency may require the applicant to pay for the criminal background check as part of the conditional offer of hire.


All new hires are required to report to the Statewide New Employee Orientation (SNEO) on their first day of employment. Sessions are held at designated locations in Kent or New Castle County.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The State of Delaware participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information refer to our Job Seeker Resources.


DHSS does not provide employment-based sponsorship.

Benefits

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Selection Process

The application and resume are evaluated based upon a rating of your education, training and experience as they relate to the job requirements of the position. It is essential that you provide complete and accurate information on your application and resume to include dates of employment, job title and job duties. For education and training, list name of educational provider, training course titles and summary of course content. Narrative information supplied in response to the questions must be supported by the information supplied on the application including your employment, education and training history as it relates to the job requirements.


Once you have submitted your application on-line, all future correspondence related to your application will be sent via email. Please keep your contact information current. You may also view all correspondence sent to you by the State of Delaware in the "My Applications" tab at StateJobs.Delaware.gov.

Accommodations

Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process.


Individuals who use TDD may request auxiliary aid or service by calling View phone number on click.appcast.io or by visiting delawarerelay.com.


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The State of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity employer and values a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage and seek out a workforce representative of Delaware including race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.