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The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue our mission at MSK and around the globe.

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Job Description

We're hiring an experienced Medical Director to lead our Employee Health (EH) department!

This role is crucial in developing and implementing strategies to enhance the health and well-being of our workforce while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

Key responsibilities:

Leadership

• Develop and implement strategic vision and direction for Employee Health (EH), in collaboration with the administrative Director, EH.
• Find opportunities to improve the performance of EH, including the employee (patient) experience with EH.
• Build trusted relationships across MSK and represents EH to outside entities.
• Participate on and/or reports to various internal Committees,
• Collaborate with various institutional departments to strengthen and support MSK's strategies.
• Enhance employee health and productivity, including policies for infection control, environmental safety, reasonable suspicion of impairment, and pertinent public health issues.

Clinical Excellence and High-Quality Performance

• Develop, implement, and maintain clinical policies and practice standards for high quality occupational health services.
• Hold responsibility for the quality of medical care delivered by EH.
• Deliver clinical care to employees, particularly in difficult or complex cases. Provide coverage in the EH clinic as needed.
• Take night and weekend on-call responsibilities in rotation with other EH clinical providers
• Recruit, retains, and supervises APP's, nurses, other attendings and psychologists in EH to provide opportunity for growth and education.
• Provide direction and counsel to EH clinical staff on clinical issues that arise.
• Develop periodic and ad hoc analyses regarding the quality of EH programs, incident tracking and trending, and exposure data.
• Develop a strategic vision and direction for initiatives supporting employee health and well-being.
• Use data to identify drivers of burnout and implement interventions to promote well - being.

Clinical Oversight of Employee Health Programs and Regulatory Compliance

• Provide clinical expertise and oversight of Workers Compensation, Workplace Accommodations (Americans with Disabilities Act) and Reasonable Suspicion of Impairment programs.
• Develop, implement, and monitor non-infectious medical surveillance programs and ensure compliance with regulatory agencies. This includes prevention, exposure assessment, treatment for noise, asbestos, laser, hazardous drugs and radiation.
• Develop, implement, and manage communicable disease transmission prevention and surveillance programs (vaccines, post-exposure prophylaxis, treatment, contact tracing).
• Monitor activities for and ensure compliance with laws, government regulations, OSHA requirements and DOH policies.

You need:

• M.D., D.O., or equivalent
• New York and New Jersey State License Eligible
• DEA License
• BLS certification
• Meet all the vital criteria for membership on the MSK medical staff and for appointment to the faculty of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Certification by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in Occupational Medicine
• Working knowledge of occupational medicine, preventive medicine, and primary care medicine, integrated disability management, and applicable government regulations
• Proven track record of designing and implementing health and wellness policies and programs.
• 10+ years' proven experience
• Medical Review Officer Certification Council (MROCC)

Key skills:

• Strong leadership skills to help drive forward the strategy, achieve consensus from all departments.
• Good interpersonal skills including communication and collaboration.
• Ability to influence key stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and manage change.
• Strong strategic and planning skills to develop and evolve strategies to ensure sustainable programs.

Are you ready to learn more about our Benefits?

Pay Range: $335,000.00 - $385,000.00

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