Academic, Staff Bioethicist

The Staff Bioethicist provides ethics consultation services at a multi-hospital, quaternary care system by delivering care as part of a group practice and contributing to the full range of clinical ethics program activities enterprise-wide.

Responsibilities:

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• Clinical ethics consultation service: 18-20 on-call weeks including both 24/7 primary and daytime-only call responsibilities.
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• Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
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• Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records and contribute to QI/QA efforts.
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• Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
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• Participate in ongoing clinical ethics programming, including ethics education, professional development of caregivers, and community outreach.
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• Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
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• Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
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• Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.
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The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to:

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• Provide high-quality ethics consultation services, including complex cases on a fast-paced, high-volume, team-based service.\n
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  • Facilitate and lead meetings, utilize appropriate techniques for conflict engagement, and build consensus.
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  • Collaborate professionally with members of multidisciplinary clinical teams and leadership, engaging multiple points of view and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
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• Contribute to the Centers mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
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• Uphold standards of professionalism and excellence.
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• Commit to professional growth and development.
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• Provide evidence of successful engagement in relationship-centered collaboration, teambuilding, and patient-centered care, and the ability to work collaboratively and inclusively to inspire and motivate others.
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• Practice consistently with the characteristics central to Cleveland Clinic and the Center for Bioethics values: honesty, integrity, humility, courage, tolerance for ambiguity, open-mindedness, balanced judgment and demeanor, accountability, and good stewardship of resources.
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Credentials/qualifications:

Required:

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• MD/DO, JD, PhD, international equivalent, or field-specific terminal degree.
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• Acute care clinical ethics consultation experience.
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Preferred:

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• Successful completion of a post-graduate clinical ethics fellowship.
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Please include CV and cover letter with your application.