Physician / Medical Director

Job overview

The Physician / Medical Director role is an onsite, full-time position at Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown, DE. Compensation is not specified. VitalCore Health Strategies provides correctional healthcare services. The role provides clinical leadership, medical oversight, and quality assurance for healthcare delivered in the correctional institution. It supports safe, effective, and ethical care by supervising clinical services, maintaining protocols and documentation, and coordinating referrals and urgent treatment.

What you'll do

• Provide clinical leadership and medical oversight
• supervise professional and paraprofessional clinical staff
• provide on-call services
• review and approve clinical protocols, policies, procedures, and medical disaster plans annually
• manage outside referrals
• sponsor physician assistants and nurse practitioners as required by state law
• support hiring and training
• provide sick-call, chronic-care, infirmary, and emergency care as required
• document patient encounters
• follow approved formularies and evidence-based standards.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

physician

medical director

correctional healthcare

clinical leadership

medical oversight

quality assurance

on-call services

full-time

georgetown de

vitalcore health strategies

delaware medical license

dea registration

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Holiday pay
• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• health savings account
• dependent care flexible spending account
• life insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• identity theft protection
• pet insurance
• employee assistance program
• discount center
• 401(k) with plan matching
• paid time off
• annual incentive bonus.

About the employer

VitalCore Health Strategies is hiring for this role. Industry: Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists). Sector: 62.