Phoenix Children's

Key Responsibilities

• • Serve as the leader of their division
• • Achieve clinical, research and academic programmatic goals while providing financial oversight of the Division
• • Provide patient care services
• • Provide direct patient care services on an inpatient and outpatient basis
• • Provide subspecialty consultations and follow-up
• • Provide diagnostic and therapeutic services/procedures
• • Provide these services for urgent/ emergent care as necessary
• • Strive to achieve the best patient and family centered care
• • Support Hospital’s patient satisfaction goals and develop division’s specific targets
• • Support and develop divisional patient safety and quality of care standards
• • Practice Contemporary Evidence based medicine or latest experience based medicine
• • Provide clinical and administrative leadership of the division in collaboration with the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of PCMG, director, and/or manager
• • Act as key liaison between the division, Phoenix Children's and PCMG executive management
• • Monitor the division’s financial, productivity and quality performance in collaboration with the manager and director; take action as feasible to attain established targets and goals
• • Participate in development of and submission of the budget for the division, with support from PCMG administration
• • Establish quality metrics for division
• • Establish annual staff physician goals and objectives in collaboration with individual physicians within their division
• • Evaluate the performance of the physicians in the division annually. Establish remediation plan for underperforming physicians.
• • Establish and demonstrate effort to achieve annual division chief goals and objectives (e.g. personal, division, hospital).
• • Review needs of the community for programmatic growth and develop necessary strategies for implementation
• • Recruitment of physicians as needed
• • Identification of resources
• • Participation in operational strategies
• • Support and/or develop the medical education programs and activities of the Division
• • Provide direct supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals for the delivery of inpatient and outpatient services when applicable
• • Conduct teaching rounds, lectures and conference for trainees
• • Participate in the teaching and supervision of trainees and allied health care professionals assigned to the division
• • Participate in the postgraduate continuing educational activities of the division
• • Provide vision and development of the research endeavors of the division including the research initiatives by other members of the division
• • Support and/or develop satellite expansion as needed
• • Hold divisional meetings regularly and communicate institutional messages to staff promptly
• • Provide a means for staff physician feedback to the division chief
• • Treat colleagues, Phoenix Children's employees and customers with courtesy, dignity and respect
• • Promote safe, cooperative and professional health care environment
• • Support Phoenix Children's mission, vision and values, including family centered care, excellence in clinical care, leadership, collaboration, and accountability
• • Act as liaison to the professional community and general public
• • Interface with Phoenix Children's foundation when applicable
• • Physician may conduct teaching rounds or conferences outside of Phoenix Children's, particularly if these activities support divisional clinical and teaching programs/ initiatives
• • Physician shall represent Phoenix Children's in the medical and business communities and before the general public in a professional manner
• • The ability to communicate by telephone, computer or other communication devices
• • The ability to perform after hours or night call responsibilities as needed
• • The ability to work regularly scheduled work hours
• • Performs miscellaneous job related duties as requested