Associate Medical Director jobs in Altoona, PA

CleanSlate is a nationwide medical group providing office-based outpatient treatment for the America’s crisis of addiction. Our Mission is to improve the quality of life for people suffering from opioid and alcohol addictions. We're accomplishing this by providing high-quality medication-assisted treatment (MAT) led by physicians and licensed medical providers, individualized mental health support, psychosocial support, and intensive care coordination with a wide network of community partners. We believe that it is our mission to serve patients from all cultures and economic backgrounds, and we accept all payor types, as Addiction does not discriminate.

CleanSlate has treated more than 100,000 patients in over 80 centers across the country!

We are currently searching for Center Medical Director (CMD) in Altoona, PA. The CMD is responsible for supervising the clinical operations at our established outpatient Addiction Medicine Centers, this entails the clinical supervision Nurse Practitioners and ensuring that the center is utilizing the best practices to treat the chronic disease of addiction and its co-occurring disorders. The CMD’s time is split 80% Clinical and 20% Administrative.

Benefits

• Work/Life Balance – No Weekends, No Night, No On-call
• Salaried Position
• 20 days PTO 6 paid Holidays
• $2500 CME Allowance 40 hours of CME Paid Time Off
• 401k and Roth with Company Match
• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD
• Dependent FSA and HSA options
• Research Opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be currently board eligible or board certified in a specialty field recognized by ABMS or AOA.
• Demonstrated commitment and compassion to patients with substance dependence.
• Servant Leader
• Addiction Medicine fellowship training preferred.
• Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Internal Medicine, or Psychiatry-trained candidates with experience in Addiction Medicine are welcome to apply.
• Active state license and controlled substance registration in the state where practicing
• Demonstrated ability for interpersonal and communication skills.
• Goodorganizational skills
• Computer fluency- EMR experience and proficiency required.
• Professionalism in all communications internally and externally
• Team player with high adaptability.
• Ability to supervise nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Provide medication assisted treatment including initial evaluations, induction on Buprenorphine and follow up care to patients within the center.
• Provide supervision to APRNs or PAs in the center.
• Prescribe medication to patients in accordance with our formulary; timely completion of all prescriptions Job Description 2 Site Physician Leader
• Involvement in complex patient decision making e.g. regarding medically compromised or complicated patient care, determining if a patient requires a different level of addiction care, assisting in the discharge determination process.
• Lead a weekly or otherwise regularly scheduled interdisciplinary treatment meeting (IDT) to review challenging patients for the purposes of decision making and education.
• Provide on-site consultation to part time physicians.
• Knowledge of any significant matters affecting the individual clinic including, but not limited to, threats made against the clinic, compliance concerns, or death of a patient under the clinic’s care.
• Complete clinical notes at the end of each work day.
• Complete co-signatures regularly. Maintain all licenses, certifications and credentialing materials allowing for continuing practice at CleanSlate Centers.
• Participate in referral development events either through self-initiation, in conjunction with the dyadic partner (center manager) or as instructed by the CMD’s supervisor.
• Engage with Center Manager on shared dyadic responsibilities such as quality and performance metrics impacting the center, facilitating staff meetings to review metrics with all clinical staff. Examples of performance metrics would be retention percentages, attrition patterns, and data which reflects accordance with our treatment model.
• Collaborate with Center Manager regarding performance of NPs or PAs, serving primary role in evaluating performance and delivering annual reviews. Center Manager will enter performance review information into HRIS system for team member record.
• In conjunction with People Services, when appropriate manage NP and PA employee relations issues by investigating issue, providing and documenting coaching, drafting and presenting formal Corrective Action, etc.
• Any and all other tasks or projects, as assigned.

We are an equal opportunityemployer

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