Director- Primary Care

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information
Stamps Health Services is an outpatient ambulatory care center that provides health care and health education to students and their spouses/domestic partners. The center is located in a state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot facility within the Joseph Brown Whitehead Building, next to our Campus Recreation Center. Stamps Health Services provides care in six areas: Primary care, women's health, Psychiatry, Travel/Immunization/Allergy, Pharmacy, and Diagnostic Services (lab and radiology).

Director - Primary care role will develop, implement, evaluate and direct the primary care services, allergy, immunization, and travel medicine in accordance with the department goals. This position shares in the administrative functions that directly impact medical services and collaborates with the management team in overall planning and administration. In the absence of the Senior Director, this position assumes leadership responsibilities for all medical areas.

This position will interact on a regular basis with: staff and students

This position typically will advise and counsel: students and staff

This position will supervise: Assigned Staff

Job Duty 1 -
Develop, implement, evaluate, and direct Primary Care services. This includes monitoring effectiveness of care provided and ensuring compliance with regulations and standards established by local, state, and federal agencies and by the accreditation body for the health center. Responsible for implementation and monitoring of a Point-of-Care ultrasound program.

Job Duty 2 -
Provide medical direction for the provision of care regarding travel, immunizations, and allergies; to ensure care is consistent with current guidelines for Travel Medicine and the administration of vaccines and allergy injections.

Job Duty 3 -
Development, organize, and implement training for clinical staff to ensure care rendered is consistent with current guidelines and best practices.

Job Duty 4 -
Implement quality assurance and quality improvement efforts through data gathering, data analysis, solution identification and solution implementation.

Job Duty 5 -
Work with senior leadership to lead maintenance of accreditation through Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

Job Duty 6 -
Supervise clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, including regular performance evaluation, scheduling, and recruitment/hiring of new personnel. Provide oversight and education to students seeking learning opportunities in a medical setting, including undergraduate GT students and professional students from other institutions.

Job Duty 7 -
Provide direct patient care, including conducting patient examinations and diagnosing illness, providing timely treatments and referrals and providing direct supervision/consultation/advice to midlevel providers (nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

Job Duty 8 -
Assume leadership responsibilities for all medical areas in the absence of the Senior Director.

Job Duty 9 -
Maintain medical licensure and board certification through Continuing Medical Education activities.

Job Duty 10 -
Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy or equivalent combination education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Required Certifications, Licenses or Permits:
o Basic Life Support certification (BLS)
o Medical Doctor (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.)
o Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine or Pediatrics

Required Experience
Five to seven years of job-related experience

ABILITIES
o The job requires occasional travel up to 10% or more of the time
o Must be able to handle heavy objects weighing up to 20 pounds or more

SKILLS
Specialized Skills, Abilities and Knowledge:
o Collaborate and partner to enhance patient services
o Provide clear and effective communication to staff and patients
o Hold team members accountable for performance and clinical care
o Ability to utilize an electronic medical record to document clinical care
o Experience with electronic medical records and quality improvement, and accreditation
o Cultivate a positive team dynamic that ensures fairness, respect and supports the mission and
vision of the organization

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

This is a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
No, this position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel.
This position does not require security clearance.

Job Grade: S12
Salary: $230,000.00- $236,000.00
Location:Atlanta, GA 30332

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background screening, including a drug screening due to the responsibilities of the position. Please visit Georgia Tech's Pre-Employment Screening Policy for more information.