Serves as Medical Director for an Inpatient Mental Health Center.

• Duties include but are not limited to:
• Administers all medical, psychiatric, nursing, social service, and psychological treatment provided to both forensic and civil recipients on all units of the Center.
• Develops policies and procedures for all program areas in accordance with departmental policies, the mental health code, and various accreditation and certification bodies.
• Directs the implementation of services.

Serves as a foil- line supervisor, includes union, non-union, and contractual staff.

Duties include, but are not limited to.

• Assign and review work.
• Provides guidance and training to assigned staff.
• Counsels staff regarding work performance.
• Reassigns staff to meet day-to-day operating needs.
• Establishes annual goals and objectives.
• Adjusts first-level grievances.
• Effectively recommends and imposes discipline, up to and Including discharge.
• Prepares and signs performance evaluations.
• Determines and recommends staffing needs.

Serves as manager of medical program operations.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Recruits, negotiates, and selects outside vendors to provide specialized medical services.
• Monitors vendor performance and activities for compliance to contracts.
• Develops reports regarding discharge summaries and other medical reports and correspondence.
• Authorizes payment based upon services rendered.
• Develops and manages medical/clinical budgets within general policy guidelines established by the Budget and Business Administrator.
• Monitors the contracts and reviews billing for medical/clinical services to verify qualitative services as delivered.
• Recommends termination of medical/clinical contracts.

*Represents medical services and programs.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as a member of the hospital clinical and management team and governing body.
• Represents the hospital on a variety of statewide medical committees.
• Serves as chairman of the Executive Medical Staff Committee.
• Make committee assignments.

Serves as facility expert on mental health laws, regulations, and trends.

Duties include, not limited to:

• Examines recipients for certification under the Mental Health Code.
• Participates in patient care reviews.
• Represents the Center and medical staff in court proceedings.

Performs incident Investigation and reporting, including, but not limited to:

• Reviews all serious incident management reports and use of Hospital Restraints and Seclusions authorizations.
• Investigates and reports issues related to patient abuse and neglect and other mandated reports.