Job description: Under direction, to plan, organize, and direct a large group of closely related services or programs in a public health or mental health department; to coordinate services with other County health agencies; to provide professional consultation; and to do related work as required.
Physician V incumbents manage a division/department in the Health Care Service Agency. It is further distinguished from the classification of Physician IV in that the Physician IV exercises functional and administrative supervision over a program. Their services or programs may also be recognized by the medical community as being the most essential to the operation of a public health or mental health program. They report directly to a Medical or Department Director.
Job Responsibilities:
- Plans, organizes, and directs a major service; supervises a multidisciplinary team and paramedical staff; coordinates the assigned service with other County health services; evaluates existing programs; and plans, organizes, and directs new programs within the assigned service.
- Prepares and conducts educational programs for the physician community in areas such as Grand Rounds and medical society meetings.
- Recruits, interviews, and evaluates professional staff assigned to the service.
- Acts as liaison between the service and all other clinical, paramedical, and administrative services.
- Conducts medical examinations and prescribes treatments and provides consultative services to the professional staff and to other services.
- Recommends and prepares applications for grants for patient care programs, research and educational activities from governmental agencies and other sources such as private foundations.
- Convenes and chairs morbidity and mortality reviews including jail, and fetal/infant mortality reviews.
- Participates in hospital clinical committees and the Alameda Contra Costa Medical Association.
- Provides state and federal testimony on specific clinical disease areas such as tuberculosis, autism, environmental justice, toxic spill, new and emerging diseases, cancer clusters, etc.
Required education/experience:
- The equivalent of four years of post-residence experience which must have included at least two years of experience with teaching, supervisory, and administrative responsibility.
- Board certified and possession of a valid license to practice medicine in the State of California.
Required licenses/certifications:
- Board certified and possession of a valid license to practice medicine in the State of California.
- Completion of a four-year residency in psychiatry.
If you are interested in this job posting: Tyler Clark, Alameda County Health, [email protected]