What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Medical Officer position at Oak Orchard Health?
Description
Position Summary:
The Associate Chief Medical Officer supports the Chief Medical Officer in providing clinical leadership, guidance, and support to medical providers and care teams. This part-time role helps promote high-quality, patient-centered care, clinical consistency, provider support, and alignment with organizational goals.
The Associate Chief Medical Officer will work collaboratively with clinical leadership, operations, compliance, nursing, and other departments to support care delivery across the organization.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic and operational support to the Chief Medical Officer through clinical leadership coordination and provider support initiatives.
- Provide ongoing medical education to nursing staff, medical staff, clinical providers, and ancillary medical staff to ensure consistent
- Act as a physician resource for root cause analyses and other risk management processes to improve care quality
- Support quality improvement efforts, clinical documentation expectations, and patient care standards.
- Participate in provider meetings, clinical leadership meetings, and committee work as needed.
- Assist with provider onboarding, mentoring, and communication.
- Help identify clinical care gaps, workflow issues, and opportunities for improvement.
- Support compliance with applicable clinical, regulatory, and organizational requirements.
- Provide 20 clinical hours per month. Additional hours maybe assigned as needed.
- Ability to work 25-30 hours per week
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Skills / Qualifications:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to comprehend, interpret, and apply the appropriate sections of applicable laws, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, and policies.
- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in community health, primary care, or a similar patient care setting.
- Some level of experience or familiarity with Federally Qualified Health Centers/FQHCs preferred.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
- Commitment to serving diverse and underserved patient populations.
- Prior clinical leadership, supervisory, or medical director experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with HRSA, UDS, FTCA, or community health center requirements preferred.
Education / Experience
- Licensed FNP, PA, MD, or DO in New York State.
- Active and unrestricted clinical license.
Salary : $100,000 - $120,000