Medical Director

Position Summary 

Do you lie awake at night dreaming of changing the world and transforming dominant paradigms?  Are you excited about providing trauma-informed, person-centered care to vulnerable people with substance use disorders?  Do you believe a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down?  Have we got a job for you!!  Come join an inspired, curious, innovative multidisciplinary team offering radically kind medical care and loving compassion to patients with substance use disorders.   

The Medical Director works closely with the Chief Medical Officer to provide vision for and implementation of medical programs and services across Fora Health’s Departments.  The Medical Director is an integral part of a collaborative leadership team, which includes the Director of Psychiatric Services, Medical Operations Director and Nurse Manager.  This team, in turn, collaborates with Fora-wide leadership, representing other programs in the continuum of care to support Fora Health’s mission of providing excellent care for those with substance use disorders. 

The Medical Director will provide direct patient care in 3.7 level withdrawal management and medically managed residential programs.  Additionally, the MD will direct expansion of both outpatient and residential MAT services.   The MD will also direct the development of expanded medical services for patients enrolled in Fora Residential and Outpatient SUD programs.  The MD will collaborate with Operations & Admissions leadership to develop and strengthen rapid access pathways from local hospitals into appropriate levels of care at Fora. 

The Medical Director will join the Chief Medical Officer in nurturing a program culture that centers excellent medical care within a framework of loving kindness, harm reduction, and trauma informed care. 

Expected allocation of time is approximately 60% administrative and 40% clinical.   

Essential Job Duties 

• Completing medical intakes on patients admitting to withdrawal management and residential treatment 

• Formulating treatment plans for those patients and communicating with nurses and case managers as necessary regarding implementation of medical orders and ongoing assessment of patients 

• Reviewing medical referrals to Medically Managed Residential Program and communicating with referents, including hospitals and outpatient settings. 

• Continuing expansion of MMR program to include patients on IV antibiotics, with complex wound care needs, and those newly dependent on insulin 

• Developing curricula & structure for residential medical groups to address PAWS, tobacco cessation, and MAT for AUD 

• Providing clinical education to nurses 

• Sharing overnight phone call with Chief Medical Officer and advance practice providers, typically one week per month. 

• Supervising advanced practice providers 

• Supervising and mentoring medical learners throughout their rotations at Fora 

• Providing education to patients about medications and treatment options. 

• Collaborating with Access Department to develop and expand relationships with community partners and pathways into Fora medical services. 

• Collaborating with Chief Medical Officer on development and implementation of new programs 

• Collaborating with Chief Medical Officer & Medical Operations Director on writing and revision of policies & procedures, creating & maintaining EMR order sets, addressing grievances & incident reports. 

• Other duties as assigned 

Additional Job Duties 

• Attend and participate in all staff meetings, including medical department and leadership meetings as assigned. 

• Attend all supervision meetings as assigned. 

• Maintain and strengthen good working relationships with members of other departments. 

• Maintain cleanliness and safety of work environment. 

• Perform related tasks as assigned. 

• Complete documentation in a timely manner. 

• Negotiate conflicting demands of patients, staff, available resources, and applicable policies & laws. 

• Prioritize and manage the competing demands of their work effectively. 

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 

• The Medical Director reports to the Chief Medical Officer. 

• The Medical Director works interdependently as a member of a program clinical team and works collaboratively with other agency staff. 

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