Medical Director - Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice

Job Summary

The Medical Director will be responsible for overseeing all medical and clinical operations of the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice Clinic. This includes ensuring high-quality patient care, developing, and implementing clinical protocols, managing, and mentoring medical staff, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows, and collaborating with other healthcare providers and community organizations. The Medical Director will also play a key role in strategic planning and program development to enhance the clinic's services. The Medical Director will create and support an environment which empowers and expects medical providers and staff to serve as ambassadors, participate in department decisions; negotiate care needs of patients; contribute to quality improvement; accept responsibility for their contribution to patient outcomes; and seek opportunities for growth and professional development.

Essential Functions

Job Summary

The Medical Director will be responsible for overseeing all medical and clinical operations of the Partnership Comprehensive Care Practice Clinic. This includes ensuring high-quality patient care, developing, and implementing clinical protocols, managing, and mentoring medical staff, teaching medical students, residents, and fellows, and collaborating with other healthcare providers and community organizations. The Medical Director will also play a key role in strategic planning and program development to enhance the clinic's services. The Medical Director will create and support an environment which empowers and expects medical providers and staff to serve as ambassadors, participate in department decisions; negotiate care needs of patients; contribute to quality improvement; accept responsibility for their contribution to patient outcomes; and seek opportunities for growth and professional development.

Essential Functions

Clinical Leadership:

• Foster a culture of collegiality, collaboration, and respect for faculty, trainees, and staff. Provide leadership and direction to the multi-site and dispersed medical team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care.
• The Medical Director contributes to developing, implementing, and evaluating the medical practice delivery model in accordance with the goals of federal and non-federal grant funding as well as by standards set forth by the Drexel University College of Medicine policies/procedures.
• The Medical Director will provide administrative direction and coordination of current and long-range policies, procedures and programs affecting the clinical operation to ensure operational efficiency and minimize redundancy.

Patient Care:

• Provides regular clinical care to a panel of patients at the Partnership. Play a vital role in managing the clinical objectives for the clinic to ensure quality medical care for all patients.
• Conduct patient evaluations, diagnose, and treat HIV-related conditions, and develop personalized treatment plans.
• This includes serving as a consultant to offer expert advice and communicating with referring providers.

Protocol Development

• Develop, implement, and monitor clinical protocols and guidelines to ensure best practices in HIV care.
• The Medical Director will review, establish, and maintain patient care protocols and standards, ensuring that all federal and State policies, regulations, and guidelines for patient care are met; establishes and coordinates quality improvement, safety, and infection control programs.
• Ensure clinical care aligns with current medical guidelines including those for vaccination, treatment, and preventative medicine as well as with regulations directed by funders (e.g., HRSA).
• Staff Management: Recruit, train, and mentor medical staff, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and support staff.
• Perform clinical supervision for direct reports. Provide direct supervision to Clinical Director (RN/NP)/Nursing Supervisor (RN/NP)/Office Manager, Director of Behavioral Health and Social Services and the Partnership’s Administrator including performance reviews.

Quality Assurance

• Ensure clinical care aligns with current medical guidelines including those for vaccination, treatment, and preventative medicine as well as with regulations directed by funders (e.g., HRSA). Implement and oversee quality assurance programs to monitor and improve patient outcomes.

Collaboration

• Maintain and grow the Partnership’s relationship with Jefferson’s Division of Infectious Diseases to provide coordinated care option for Partnership pati