Human Genetics - Assistant Professor

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Community Liaison - Function as an effective liaison and intermediary between the community physicians, medical staff, and hospital departments. Identifies and works to resolve problems as they arise, including but not limited to referrals, admissions, credentialing and systems issues.   Develop and foster collaboration between clinical departments, divisions, medical staff leadership, faculty, and other affiliated entities to ensure an integrated approach to providing services and fulfilling the medical center's clinical, research, and educational goals and objectives.  Serve as Community Representative on the Medical Executive Committee.  Develops and maintains a favorable relationship with community physicians.

• Medical Management - Provide leadership to the medical staff in areas of strategic planning, strategy execution and implementation of care management programs.   Provide medical expertise with respect to planning and establishing goals and policies to improve medical management.  Continuously assess and improve the performance of care and services provided.  Direct quality assessment and improvement functions; design and implement programs, which evaluate the efficacy of treatment.

• Regulatory Compliance - Maintain a working knowledge of applicable National, State, and local laws and regulations, as well as, Joint Commission, NCQA and other regulatory requirements that relate to the medical staff. Maintain a working knowledge of Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations as well as hospital policies.

• Continuous Improvement - Working with the medical leadership of the hospital, serve as a resource to help reduce costs, enhance revenues, and achieve utilization and quality goals and objectives. Support internal controls to safeguard the financial, information and human resources of Cincinnati Children's. Understands, adheres to and models Core Standards as defined organizationally and specifically within the department/unit.

• Operational Leadership - Participate in the self-governance of the medical staff's activities and governing body as a member of the Medical Executive Committee.

• Patient Care - Provide safe, effective and compassionate patient care commensurate with the level of advancement and clinical specialty.  Make significant contributions to clinical service as evidenced by expertise in clinical care.  Develop and maintain local and regional recognition by peers and patients as an authority in the field.  Develop a wide local and regional referral base for subspecialist.  Develop clinical skills or programs that are local or regionally distinctive.  Applies clinical skills that are clinically sound, effective and achieve exceptional patient outcomes.  Provides consultative services to other physicians and clinical providers within the medical center to establish a coordinated care plan for each patient.  Integrates innovative approaches to patient care. Serve in a role in establishing the clinical direction of the specific clinical field.  Provide disease specific expert consultation relative area of specialty.  Perform procedures, and make decisions regarding patient care. Formulate, maintain, support, monitor and modify a patient-specific plan for care, treatment and rehabilitation based on the patient's assessment.  Plan and coordinate care, treatment and rehabilitation for discharged patients. Promote patient care outcomes on ongoing basis.

• Teaching and Training - Play an important role in a major teaching or clinical training program(s).  Supervise the patient care of assigned residents and fellows. Teaches and supervises the patient care of assigned medical students, residents and fellows, monitoring the medical care of medical to assure care provided is safe and effective.  Contributions may include: ongoing recognition as an excellent teacher, role model and mentor; assume an important or lead role in a major teaching or clinical training program; invited to participate in local and regional educational opportunities; participate in and may lead the development or direction of educational program, curricular offerings and teaching materials; participates in curriculum committee or other education related committees.  Serve as a role model within the department in mentoring students and trainees. Serve as consult to other faculty and community physicians. Maintain currency in field through continuing education, literature and seminars.

• Service and/or Administration - Participates in program development for service and/or administration as evidenced by one of the following: make significant contributes to the development of a unique programs for patie