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. 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.

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.
• 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 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.
• Review, process, and respond (via corporate counsel) to lawsuits; attend court hearings when necessary; conduct research of charts; review status of inmates/residents with serious health problems for completion of all necessary intervention and treatment.
• Prepare and disseminate safety and accident reports as required by policy; take appropriate action in cases of serious and unusual incidents and emergencies.
• Assist with investigations and inquiries; exercise independent judgment by determining when probable cause exists to recommend or take disciplinary action.
• Observe and record inmate/resident behavior.
• Inspect the medical unit for items that could be used as contraband by inmates/residents; securely store supplies and equipment or provide for their safe disposal.
• Reliably identify inmates/residents by visual means.
• Perform searches of people and objects capable of concealing contraband, which will involve detecting and identifying objects and detaining people.
• Engage in functions in confined areas that include physically checking doors, windows, and other areas to verify they are secure.
• Endure verbal and mental abuse when confronted with the hostile views and opinions of inmates/residents and others encountered in an antagonistic environment.
• Take appropriate action to prevent or diffuse potentially disruptive situations.
• Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies, and disasters to include administering basic emergency medical aid, physically removing people away from dangerous situations, and securing and evacuating people from confined areas.
• Interpret, enforce, and comply with applicable rules, regulations, policies, procedures, standards, and/or contract requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective working relations with others and handle difficult interpersonal contacts.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from supervisors, staff members, contractors, business contacts, representatives from governmental agencies, and the general public.
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; apply management techniques to problems of administration and devise workable solutions.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Interpret an extensive variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form.
• Remain alert at all times and react quickly, efficiently, and calmly in emergency and other high-stress situations.
• Domestic U.S. travel may be required.

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.

CoreCivic is a Drug-Free Workplace & EOE - M/F/Vets/Disabled.