Physician

$225,000 - $325,000 per year

Core Civic is currently seeking a Physician who has a passion for providing the highest quality care in an institutional setting. The Physician provides professional medical direction, oversight and direct patient care in a correctional facility. The successful applicant should be able to perform ALL of the following functions at a pace and level of performance consistent with the actual job performance requirements.

• Provide a variety of professional medical services to inmates/residents, including administering examinations, diagnosing medical and other problems, prescribing medications and providing treatment and follow-up care.
• Provide leadership direction for the medical program in collaboration with the Health Services Supervisor.
• Monitor and review operations and standards of care delivered to inmates/residents.
• Interview inmates/residents and make decisions on admissions.
• Make clinical rounds.
• Participate in treatment team meetings where individual health plans of inmates/residents are devised, reviewed, and altered.
• Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
• Hold clinics for nursing specialists to make diagnoses, determine treatment, and give prescriptions and protocols.
• Maintain a good working relationship with facility staff, nursing staff, contract providers and outside provider agencies.
• Utilize established corporate, facility and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions, while exercising sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties.
• Assist in formulating facility policy for the medical program.
• Motivate and encourage staff to perform duties consistently with policy and procedures.
• Regularly evaluate all medical services to prevent inappropriate use or duplication.
• Monitor inpatient hospitalizations and facilitate early release whenever clinically appropriate.
• Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.
• Prepare and maintain a variety of narrative, statistical, summary, and/or operational records, reports and logs with appropriate grammar and filing.
• Audit medical files for documentation of all provided services.
• Evaluate and recommend methods to improve operational efficiency and cost effectiveness of health-related services.
• Meet with outside hospital/agency administrators to ensure a close working relationship between them and the facility.
• Facilitate, where applicable, NCCHC/ACA/JCAHO accreditation of the medical program by providing required organizational efficiency and approved medical services.
• Accept on‑call status.
• Attend seminars, workshops, conferences, etc., as required.
• Provide health counseling and health education on an individual or group basis.
• Communicate responsibilities, authorities and accountability to all direct subordinates, ensuring they are clearly defined and understood.
• Conduct meetings of subordinate staff, attend scheduled staff meetings, and promote communications and proper flow of information between administration, staff and inmates/residents; assist in maintaining consistency of operation between shifts in the medical unit.
• Communicate effectively and coherently to administration, staff, inmates/residents, visitors and the general public, particularly in situations requiring tact, diplomacy, understanding, fairness, firmness and good judgment.
• Provide information, instructions and directions, mediate disputes and provide reliable testimony in court and other formal settings.
• Read, analyze, comprehend and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations, legal and non‑legal documents, including the processing of medical instructions, commitment orders, summons and other legal writs.

• Graduate from an accredited school of medicine.
• Must be licensed to practice medicine in the state of employment.
• A valid driver's license is required.
• Minimum age requirement:
  Must be at least 18 years of age.

Core Civic is a Drug Free Workplace & EOE– M/F/Vets/Disabled.