Associate Director, Ethics BWH
Mass General BrighamAbout the role
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
Will work with the Ethics Service Executive Director to provide ethics consultation, education, policy development, and research in coordination with the BWH Ethics Committee. This work aims to support and develop the ethical awareness and agency of all members of the organization related to clinical care. Areas of activity include consultation, education, committee participation, research, scholarship, and policy development. The Associate Director works in close coordination with the chairperson(s) of the Ethics Committee and the Executive Sponsors to achieve these goals.Essential Functions:
Responsible for the practice of clinical ethics consultation:
Responds to and documents requests for ethics consultation
Provides ethics consultation planning, consultation discussion, documentation, and follow up.
Supports maintenance of database of ethics consultation reports and trends by unit, theme, and volume.
Develops policies, guidelines, and educational materials to support ethics consultation function.
Supervises volunteers and interns.
Collaborates with Executive Director on planning Ethics Service growth and quality improvement.
Ethics Committee:
Serves as Co-Chair along with the Executive Director to accomplish Ethics Committee tasks of consultation review, education and policy development. Provides case materials and coordinates clinical attendance.
Collaboratively manages administrative aspects of committee – membership, requests for attendance, minutes.
Educates new Ethics Committee members to history, roles and responsibilities of membership.
Collaborates with Executive Director to plan and implement development of the Ethics Committee.
Writes annual report and co-presents with Executive Director at the Committee’s annual meeting and to Executive Sponsors CMO and CNO and Medical Staff Executive Committee as requested.
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 Harvard teaching hospitals through teaching, collaborative networking and problem solving, training resources and mentoring students, clinicians and interns.
Leads all aspects of internal and external communication on clinical ethics issues.
Works closely with Executive Director to sponsor the annual Weise Lecture and other related activities.
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.
-Supervisory Responsibilities:
Responsible for training, supervision and delegation to Administrative Coordinator.
Qualifications
Doctor of Medicine Related Field of Study required.
Clinical Healthcare Experience 8-10+ years required.
Current Ethics Consultation Certification 3-5 years required.
Excellent written and verbal skills.
Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with clinicians, patients and family members in stressful situations.
Basic command of data management and analysis.
Advanced ability to facilitate multidisciplinary communication and collaboration.
Attends to the sensitivity of issues and emotions evoked in clinical and family members when addressing themes such as death and dying, value difference and moral authority.
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Remote Type
Onsite
Work Location
75 Francis Street
Scheduled Weekly Hours
8
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
Pay Range
- /Hourly
Grade
9
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