Medical Director

Position Description:

            The director of clinical services is responsible for clinical support for formulary development and maintenance, pull-through development, and drug information services.

Position Requirements:

• Education: Must be a practicing physician with a valid license
• Experience: A minimum of 10 years of experience in a health care organization.
• Licenses, Certifications: Must be licensed and approved by the State of Alaska Board of Medical Examiners.
• Specialized Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills – precise and descriptive when communicating expectations and objectives creating open lines of communication with clinical and administrative staff.
• Preferred Qualifications: Managed care/general clinical residency. At least 1 year of managed care experience. At least 2 years of formulary management experience.

Position Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Provides both administrative and clinical services to BFC.
• Is the liaison between administration and medical staff.
• Member of the Senior Management Team for BFC and regularly reports to the Executive Director and Board of Directors.
• Oversees the credentialing and privileging of the medical providers, including physicians and mid-levels.
• Management of the BFC Dispensary.

• Provides clinical information to support contracting strategies.
• Responsible for the management of the medical services personnel.
• Works with senior management to design clinical intervention programs that result in better quality care and cost savings for the client.
• Ensures that pharmacotherapy treatment recommendations in the disease management program are consistent with formulary initiatives.
• Serves as a liaison to pharmaceutical companies to coordinate clinical initiatives.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Competencies:

• Teamwork Orientation.
• Technical Capacity.
• Time Management.
• Customer/Client Focus.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position may require standing and walking for long shifts.
• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Supervisory:

This position manages all employees of the department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.