Medical Director- Behavioral Health

Extended Job Title

Medical Director
- Behavioral Health

This Position is Open to Current TTUHSC Employees Only.

Diagnoses and treats patients with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.

45676

Up to 25%

salary commensurate with related education, experience and/orskills

Essential job functions:

• Provide clinical and administrative supervision to clinical operations, patient care, and staff management within the Montfordcorrectional setting.
• Design, implement, and assess various mental programdevelopments, ensuring quality and adherence to best practice standards that meet internal and external regulations.
• Spear head the recruitment, on-boarding, and performance evaluation of supervises.
• Coordinate with operational leaders in resource allocation,budgetary considerations, and institutional policies.
• Direct oversight to psychiatrists, psychologists, advance practice providers (APP) and ensure smooth clinical day-to-day operations.
• Conduct legal proceedings such as involuntary inpatientpsychiatric admission evaluations, civil commitment assessments,clinical capacity assessments, compelled and non-emergent compelledmedication process.
• Clinical oversight of clinical activities in accordance withunit treatment program clinical guidelines. Coordinate onsiteclinical education for Psychiatric staff, clerkship for residents,medical students, and other trainees.
• Serve as the clinical Site Director for trainees from theTTUHSC Forensic Fellowship program.
• Provides back up to APP’s for the regional and in-house call,to ensure there is continuous psychiatric coverage within theTTUHSC regions.
• Administratively oversee and monitor assigned employees-Reviews and updates Position Description’s (PD) of supervises. Documentperformance and provide Performance Evaluations for supervises.
  
  Recognize and discipline employees, address complaints and resolve issues as they arise.
• Assure the Montford Psych Unit compliance with externalauditing standards, executive directives, administrativedirectives, access to care, and other applicable policies and procedures.

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salary commensurate with related education, experience and/orskills

Monthly

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• At least 3 years of experience serving as a Medical Director for behavioral health in an inpatient psychiatric facility.

Psych Montford Unit

Full Time

Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as the institutional pay plan. For additional information, please reference the institutional pay plan website at https://app
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,disability, genetic information or status as a protected veteran.

• Current license to practice medicine by the Texas Medical Board
• Current Drug Enforcement Agency controlled substancesregistration certificate

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