Trauma Surgeon

The Trauma, Acute Care, and Surgical Critical Care Surgeon is a member of the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care within the Department of Surgery and reports to the Division Chief of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care and the Chairman of Surgery.

The physician provides comprehensive surgical care to patients with traumatic injuries and acute surgical conditions, as well as surgical critical care services consistent with the physician’s credentials, privileges, and assigned clinical responsibilities.

The physician participates in the Division’s clinical, educational, quality improvement, and scholarly activities and supports the Department’s commitment to patient safety, multidisciplinary collaboration, and excellence in surgical care.

Responsibilities

1. Provide timely evaluation, resuscitation, diagnosis, and operative and nonoperative management of injured patients, including inpatient care and outpatient follow-up, consistent with clinical privileges and departmental expectations. Provide emergency general surgery and surgical critical care services as assigned and within the physician’s credentials and privileges.

2. Participate in assigned trauma, acute care surgery, and surgical critical care service and call schedules; provide prompt response to trauma activations, emergency consultations, operative emergencies, and other assigned clinical coverage in accordance with applicable service policies and departmental expectations.

3. Maintain required medical staff appointment, clinical privileges, board certification or eligibility, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification, trauma-related continuing medical education, and other qualifications applicable to the trauma surgeon role and institutional requirements.

4. Provide continuity of care through timely reassessment, documentation, communication, consultation, handoffs, and coordination with emergency medicine, anesthesia, surgical subspecialties, critical care, nursing, rehabilitation, and other members of the multidisciplinary trauma team.

5. Adhere to approved Trauma Program policies, clinical practice guidelines, protocols, and standards of professional practice; identify opportunities to update guidelines and participate in their development and implementation as requested.

6. Participate actively in the Trauma Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) Program, including case review, multidisciplinary peer review, mortality and complication review, identification of opportunities for improvement, and implementation and monitoring of corrective actions as assigned.

7. Attend trauma multidisciplinary PIPS committee meetings and other required Trauma Program meetings, maintaining the attendance and participation standards applicable to trauma surgeons.

8. Cooperate with trauma registry and quality personnel by ensuring accurate and timely clinical documentation, responding to case-review inquiries, and supporting data-driven improvement initiatives, including review of Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) findings as requested.

9. Collaborate with the Trauma Medical Director, Trauma Program Manager, specialty liaisons, hospital leadership, and prehospital providers to improve patient flow, trauma system performance, and care across the continuum from prehospital care through discharge.

10. Participate in the supervision, teaching, evaluation, and professional development of residents, medical students, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other trauma team members, consistent with assigned faculty responsibilities.

11. Contribute to trauma-related research, quality improvement projects, presentations, publications, and other scholarly activities in support of departmental goals and the Trauma Program’s Level I verification objectives.

12. Assist with preparation for trauma center verification and reverification by maintaining required credentials and education, participating in program reviews, and supporting implementation of initiatives to address identified gaps.

13. Participate in trauma injury prevention, community outreach, prehospital education, disaster preparedness, and regional trauma system activities as assigned.

14. Promote professionalism, respectful multidisciplinary communication, patient safety, ethical practice, and a culture of accountability; comply with institutional policies and medical staff bylaws.

15. Participate in departmental, hospital, and health system committees, operational initiatives, and administrative activities as requested by the Trauma Medical Director, Division Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, or Hospital Leadership.

16. Perform other clinical, educational, quality, and administrative duties as assigned by the Trauma Medical Director, Division Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, or Hospital Leadership.

St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.

Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)

• Competitive salary*
• Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
• 403b retirement plan options with company match**
• Health & Wellness*
• Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
• PTO, and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• LTD: Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance Options
• Onsite Day care Program

*Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

**403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

Pay transparency: St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc.” The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.

The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.

The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St.

Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.