What are the responsibilities and job description for the OBGYN Nocturnist - Houston Methodist Willowbrook position at Houston Methodist and Careers?
OB/GYN Nocturnist Opportunity
The Opportunity:
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital in Northwest Houston is a 358-bed, full-service acute care facility known for specialized services like cardiology, orthopedics, women's services, and neurology, growing significantly from its 2000 opening into a major regional medical center. It's part of the larger Houston Methodist system, offering comprehensive care with a commitment to quality and community service in the Northwest Houston area. The hospital provides maternal-fetal medicine services for high-risk pregnancies, private antepartum rooms, private labor, delivery and recovery rooms, private postpartum rooms, level I and II newborn care, and a level II NICU.
Houston Methodist OB/GYN Nocturnists are the in-house experts whose ability to handle any obstetric emergency dramatically improves patient safety and satisfaction.
This opportunity involves working collaboratively with local obstetricians to ensure that every pregnant woman who presents to the hospital is cared for by an experienced physician every time. We are seeking OB/GYNs with exceptional clinical and communication skills, a passion for healthcare quality improvement, and a desire to shape the future of our specialty.
Houston Methodist provides an unparalleled benefits package and superior work/life balance. Full-time Hospitalist have the freedom to create their own schedules – typically 12-hour shifts per month – with no on-call duty or office management.
A day in the life includes:
- Caring for all pregnant women who present emergent, regardless of circumstance
- Cultivating relationships with staff nurses and hospital personnel
- Supporting private practice physicians by providing coverage and assistance
- Caring for unassigned patients
- Evaluating and treating triage patients
- Providing consultation to the ED
- Monitoring labor
- Delivering babies
- Performing surgery and surgical assists
- Evaluating and treating postpartum patients
- Providing nurse support and education
HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS
- Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:* INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.* COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional, ethical, physical, and spiritual needs.* ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.* RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth, dignity, and value.* EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.
- Practices the Caring and Serving Model
- Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards
- Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET, Managing Up, Key Words)
- Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees’ experiential journeys to ensure strong communication, ease of access to information, and a seamless experience
- Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job
- Actively supports the organization’s vision, fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values
PATIENT AGE GROUP(S) AND POPULATION(S) SERVED
- Refer to departmental "Scope of Service" and "Provision of Care" plans, as applicable, for description of primary age groups and populations served by this job for the respective HM entity.
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SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
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WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS - REQUIRED
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS - REQUIRED - ADDITIONAL DETAILS
LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS - PREFERRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES
WORK ATTIRE
- Uniform
- Scrubs
- Business professional
- Other (department approved)
ON-CALL
- On Call*
TRAVEL
- May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area
- May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area
Company Profile:
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital is a Magnet-recognized, not-for-profit, faith-based hospital that serves the growing Northwest Houston community. We are committed to providing quality, cost-effective health care in a compassionate environment for a full range of services, including emergency care, cardiology, orthopedics and sports medicine, comprehensive women’s services, neurology and neurosurgery, oncology, and primary and general medicine.