Medical Director, Acute Pain Services

Essential Functions

Quality Care:

• Provide medical direction for all services associated with pain assessment, evaluation, and
• management.
• Assist facility in training of caregivers and providers where appropriate.
• Assist with identifying best practices with the latest evidence and research.
• Follow facility and system level procedures and processes.
• Assist in the development of procedures where applicable.
• Monitor outcomes related to patient care ensuring quality is continually improved upon.
• Help to develop a culture of continuous improvement within the anesthesia department related
• to pain management and other services provided at facility.
• Assist facilities in continuous readiness with Joint Commission required Elements of Performance related to pain and pain services.
• Attend system meetings where pain services planning, quality and service elements are
• discussed.
• Expand services to pre and post-operative areas to coordinate high risk patient treatment plans for the best outcomes.

Patient

Experience:

• Reviews patient experience survey data within service lines. Monitors and reports results to physicians.
• Contributes to implementation of ideas to improve the patient experience across the continuum.

Physician Engagement:

• Coordinate initiatives and communication with system Pain and Anesthesia Medical Directors.
• Provides regular communication to caregivers on initiatives.
• Partners with System Leaders and facility Medical Directors in resolving quality and/or behavioral issues.

• Champion for safety across the peri-operative period.
• Assist in developing and monitoring outcomes by service.
• Supports Surgeon Leaders within the department of surgery and assists with professional development of department members.

Stewardship:

• Contributes to strategic plan, includes equipment, services, etc.
• Assists in achieving strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills in a variety of methods for any identified needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders as needed to accomplish goals and objectives.

Caregiver Engagement:

• Builds positive relationships between physicians and hospital personnel.
• Builds positive relationship between employed and non-employed physicians.

Community Relations:

• Represents Hospital as clinical expert. Takes opportunities to increase public awareness of services.
• Collaborate with other facilities to share best practices in a continuous improvement framework.

Meeting Requirements on an as needed basis:

• Meet regularly with Pain and Surgical Services leadership
• System Clinical Operations meetings as identified
• Other quality or safety meetings as identified
• APS team collaboration meetings

Skills

• Leadership
• Interpersonal Communication
• Relationship Building
• Strategic Planning
• People Management
• Continual Improvement Process
• Workforce Planning
• Health Administration
• Medical Staff Training
• Health Care