Staff Clinical Ethics Consultant

Bioethics.net; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 103,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

The Cleveland Clinic Health System is seeking a Staff Clinical Ethics Consultant to deliver ethics consultations within a multi-hospital, quaternary care system. You will join a group practice delivering high-quality ethics services across the enterprise.

Responsibilities include weekday ethics call coverage, travel to main and regional campuses, documentation, mentoring fellows, and contributing to quality improvement initiatives while upholding professional standards and center values.

Qualifications

• MD/DO, JD, PhD, or equivalent terminal degree.
• Acute care clinical ethics consultation experience required.
• Post-graduate clinical ethics fellowship preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical ethics consultation services on a fast-paced, team-based service.
• Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
• Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records.
• Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
• Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at local, regional, and national levels.

Skills

Ethics consultation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Conflict resolution

Mentoring

Education

MD/DO, JD, PhD, or equivalent

Acute care ethics experience

Job description

The Staff Clinical Ethics Consultant provides ethics consultation services at a multi-hospital, quaternary care system by delivering clinical ethics consultation as part of a group practice.

Responsibilities

• Clinical ethics consultation service weekday-only call responsibilities (no evenings/weekends/holidays).
• Travel to Main Campus and regional hospitals across Northeast Ohio as needed.
• Maintain internal documentation of clinical ethics consultations for database records and contribute to QI/QA efforts.
• Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
• Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.

The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to:

• Provide high-quality ethics consultation services on a fast-paced, high-volume, team-based service.
• Facilitate and lead meetings, utilize appropriate techniques for conflict engagement, and build consensus
• Collaborate professionally with members of multidisciplinary clinical teams and leadership, engaging multiple points of view and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Contribute to the Center’s mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
• Uphold standards of professionalism and excellence.
• Commit to professional growth and development.
• 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.
• 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.

Credentials/qualifications

Required

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

Preferred

• Successful completion of a post-graduate clinical ethics fellowship.
• Possibility of job share opportunity.

Salary Range: $103,000–$191,500 / Year

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.

This salary range displayed in this job posting reflects the anticipated salary range for new physicians hired into full-time (100% FTE) positions. This range is generally aligned with or below the 50th percentile of nationally recognized compensation benchmarks by specialty. A successful candidate’s actual compensation will be determined in accordance with fair market value, considering factors such as professional experience, clinical expertise, board certification, work history, and FTE. This stated range excludes the value of Cleveland Clinic’s comprehensive benefits package, which includes healthcare, dental, vision, retirement, and other offerings.