Emergency Room Director

PLEASE NOTE - This position may require temporarily relocation to other TONHC Facilities: Sells Hospital, Santa Rosa Health Center, San Simon Health Center, and San Xavier Health Center.

Position Summary:

Provide supervision of assigned Emergency Room medical staff and provide complete emergent and acute health care services to patients presented to the Emergency Room for care.

Scope of Work:

As a supervising staff physician, the incumbent performs and provides the diagnosis, care, and treatment of primarily emergency care and some inpatients. The position is located at the Tohono O'odham Nation Sells Hospital, Emergency Department, Sells, Arizona. Incumbent works under the general supervision of the Medical Officer (Clinical Director), who provides administrative oversight. Incumbent functions with considerable independence. Work performed is reviewed for conformance to policies, procedures, and practices relating to health care delivery.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Depending on the area of assignment, an incumbent may not be required to perform some of the duties listed below):

Administrative Duties (50%):

• Provide overall planning of organizational development and implementation on program documents, reports, budgets, staffing, and other business in concerns with the operation of the Emergency Room Department.
• Plans and adjusts work schedules and operations to meet established objectives, priorities, deadlines, and standards of care.
• Provides information on capabilities, staffing, equipment requirements, and problems in meeting work demands.
• Makes changes in assignment tasks to positions to improve workflow and services rendered, promote health care, and increase productivity.
• Evaluate operations and services provided to patients and propose and implements changes and improvements.
• Assigns work to employees in an efficient, equitable, and selective manner to achieve a satisfactory quality of patient care.
• Provide instructions, explanations, and training for tasks and job techniques.
• Advises workers of performance requirements and reviews work status and progress on an individual or group basis.
• Assesses the adequacy of patient care of service rendered to identify causes of inadequacies and to correct deficiencies.
• Coordinates team activities with the work of the organization and with other related activities.
• Inform employees about the policies, procedures, and management goals related to the unit's workload.
• Provide supervision to staff physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners assigned to the department.
• Recommends promotions, reassignments, status changes, performance awards, sets up a work schedule, approves/disapproves leave requests, sets a level of performance expectation, and appraises employee performance.
• Resolves informal complaints of employees and refers those beyond the unit level to higher management.

Clinical Duties (50%):

• Assumes responsibility for the diagnosis, prevention, therapy, maintenance, and rehabilitation of family members in the capacity of a senior specialist or expect.
• Makes preliminary diagnosis, directs, prescribes, or provides treatment, or arranges for specialized care or patient referral as required.
• Evaluates patients, adults/adolescents who come to the Emergency Room.
• Provide medical care and public health services to individuals eligible for services provided by TONHC in homes, schools, clinics, job sites, and other community locations within the assigned service area.
• Provides patient care and obtains consultation as needed to an individual in need of critical care, which requires immediate decisions or is complicated because the patient fails to respond to previously tried treatment regimens.
• Provide primary medical care to patients with a broad spectrum of illnesses.
• Provide emergency care to patients relating to major trauma such as fractures of multiple extremities, stab wounds, open wounds of chest and abdomen, partial evisceration, concussions, head traumas, frequent cardiac arrests, and emergency cases of suicide attempts.
• Makes appropriate referrals and consultations after primary complete evaluation and doc