Medical Director

Job description

Position Overview
The Division of Mental Health is seeking to hire a Medical Director with an Illinois Physician and Surgeon license with a specialty in Psychiatry. Board Certification is required to provide medical leadership and oversight of the psychiatry services provided at the Joliet Inpatient Treatment Center in Joliet, Illinois.

Job Responsibilities
1. Serves as the Joliet Inpatient Treatment Center (JITC) Medical Director with full responsibility for the administration of medical/clinical and psychiatric care services provided by licensed medical staff in the Mental Health (MH) units.
2. Serves as full-line supervisor.
3. Plans, administers, and evaluates the development and implementation of policies and directives and the recruitment and retention of medical staff personnel.
4. Serves as an active high-ranking member of key MH services management and treatment committees including the Hospital Executive Committee.
5. Consults and confers with a variety of outside sources on behalf of the facility and patients such as other medical facilities, Coroner's Office, other local, city and state agencies.
6. Serves as Chairperson of the JITC MH Medical Staff Organization.
7. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of duties enumerated above.