Physician

Physician

At CoreCivic, we do more than manage inmates; we care for people. CoreCivic 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.

Job Description

• 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 direction in leadership 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.
• Direct unit treatment operations.
• Perform minor surgery and occasional major surgery, if necessary.
• Hold clinics for nursing specialists in making diagnoses, determining treatment, and giving 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 using sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties of the position.
• Assist in the formulation of facility policy for medical services.
• Motivate and encourage staff to perform their duties consistent with policy and procedures.
• Regularly evaluate the provision of all medical services to prevent inappropriate use or duplication of those services.
• Monitor inmate/resident inpatient hospitalizations and facilitate early release whenever clinically appropriate.
• Closely monitor all potential catastrophic illnesses.
• Prepare and maintain a variety of standard narrative, statistical, summary, and/or operational records, reports, and logs, using appropriate grammar; review reports and records produced by medical staff; properly process all reports and documents in a timely manner.
• Maintain absolute security and confidentiality of all medical records.
• Audit medical files for documentation of all provided services.
• Evaluate and recommend methods of improving 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 the required level of organizational efficiency and approved, appropriate 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 so that they are clearly defined and understood.
• Conduct meetings of subordinate staff, attend scheduled staff meetings, and promote communications and the proper flow of relevant information between administration, staff, and inmates/residents; assist in maintaining communications and 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. This includes giving information, instructions, and directions, mediating disputes, and providing reliable testimony in court and other formal settings.
• Read, analyze, comprehend, and interpret technical procedures or governmental regulations, legal and non-legal documents, including processing such documents as medical instructions, commitment orders, summonses, and other legal writs.

Requirements

• 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.

Compensation Information

$225,000 - $325,000 per year.