Medical Director, Outpatient Psychosis and First Episode Psychosis Program

SHIFT: Day (United States of America)

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A Brief Overview

The Medical Director will provide psychiatric and administrative leadership of CHOP’s outpatient program for children, adolescents, and young adults with psychosis.

The role includes oversight of diagnostic evaluation services, developmentally appropriate, guideline-based psychopharmacology, coordination with physical health care, and comprehensive risk assessment and crisis/safety planning.

A primary responsibility is serving as Medical Director of CHOP’s First Episode Psychosis Program (CHOP FEP), a Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) program for adolescents and young adults experiencing a first episode of psychosis, ensuring fidelity to the CSC model, including team-based care, CBT-based individual therapy, family psychoeducation, supported education and employment, case management, peer support, and coordinated pharmacotherapy.

The Medical Director will develop outreach partnerships with emergency departments, inpatient units, schools, and primary care providers to reduce the duration of untreated psychosis, and sustain the program as a learning health system by monitoring pathway-to-care, duration of untreated psychosis, clinical and functional outcomes, and engagement metrics to guide quality improvement.

Responsibilities also include teaching and supervising fellows, residents, and trainees; contributing to scholarship, research implementation, grant development, staffing, and budgeting.

The Medical Director will collaborate closely with an interdisciplinary leadership team and Research Director to fulfill the clinical, educational, advocacy, and research missions of the program.

Required qualifications include an MD or DO, board certification or eligibility in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, eligibility for Pennsylvania medical licensure, active DEA registration, and expertise in evidence-based treatment of psychotic disorders in youth. Preferred qualifications include experience with Coordinated Specialty Care or early psychosis programs, such as NAVIGATE or OnTrackNY; multidisciplinary team leadership; quality-improvement experience; and academic productivity appropriate for a university faculty appointment.

What You Will Do

1. Provide leadership for clinical practice:

Advise on clinical best practices in the assigned setting in collaboration other clinical leaders and CHOP Administrative leadership.

Collaborate with leadership in medical, surgical, behavioral health or nursing disciplines to optimize care model

Provide physician leadership for Advanced Practice Nurses (e. g. APN credentials)

• 2. Provide clinical leadership DCAPBS physicians in partnership
• Recruitment and succession planning for physicians, in collaboration with Psychiatrist-In-Chief
• Develop performance measures for physicians in quality, productivity, and citizenship
• Review and approve physician credentials and privileges, in collaboration with Psychiatrist-In-Chief

Address Legal and/or Risk Management issues as they pertain to physicians, in collaboration with Psychiatrist-In-Chief

Support physician professional development (e. g. identifying leadership opportunities within the network such as coordinating educational experiences for medical students in primary care)

3. Advise CHOP Administration of new clinical trends in Behavioral Health from a strategic and network perspective; provide input and thought to DCAPBS strategic direction and planning

Development of a care model of the future

Foster linkage between primary and specialty care to implement specialty care protocols in the primary care or specialty care setting, including development of education strategies to support these efforts

Develop CHOP philosophy with respect to care delivery innovations (e. g. care delivery options).

4. Support the education mission/leadership at CHOP (e. g.: operationalize the needs of clinics for residents so it meets the residency program needs and also can be implemented at the practices); act as the conduit for medical student teaching

5. Provide leadership in conjunction with CHOP Administrative leadership around practice management issues such as:

Payer issues in collaboration with Medical Director QPS, MSO, CHOP finance

Clinical Perspective and Impact of Financial Decisions

6. Collaborate with City/Community/Government entities on pediatric public health issues; keep abreast of grant funding and programmatic opportunities supported by external sources, connect with city on child care and advocacy

• Education Qualifications
• High School Diploma / GED Required
• Doctorate Medicine or Osteopathic Medicine Required

Skills and Abilities

Epic knowledge desired

Skills Are

• Demonstrated leadership at all levels of an organization.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strategic thinking and vision
• Proven track record of collaboration
• Financial aptitude
• Practice management experience
• Ability to influence and lead change effectively.
• Licenses and Certifications
• Medical License - in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - upon hire - Required and
• Board Certification - Medical Sub/Specialty - Adolescent Psychiatry - upon hire - Required and
• DEA License - upon hire - Required

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Salary Range

$36,279.00 - $678,760.00 Annually

Salary ranges are shown for full-time jobs. If you're working part-time, your pay will be adjusted accordingly.

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