Physician (Part-time): Caroline Correctional Unit
About The Position
The Physician provides professional medical care and medication management to offenders at Caroline Correctional Unit #2, with support from a Nurse Manager and nursing staff. The role includes evaluating patients’ histories, symptoms, physical findings, and diagnostic information to develop diagnoses; diagnosing or treating acute illnesses, infections, injuries, and other health problems; and recommending safe, effective, and appropriate diagnostic or therapeutic interventions. The Physician prescribes medications as legally authorized and may prescribe chemical or mechanical measures to support behavioral improvement. The role also includes assisting with treatment plans and program recommendations, educating patients in self-management of acute and chronic illnesses, providing evidence-based health education to the offender population, and serving as a primary member of the institution’s multidisciplinary health services team. This is a wage position limited to no more than 1,500 hours per agency during the May 1–April 30 12-month period, regardless of hire date. Wage employment limits reset each May 1. Employees may work no more than an average of 29 hours per week over the 12-month period. This position offers no state benefits.
Requirements
- Graduation from an accredited medical college.
- Licensed to practice medicine in Virginia.
- Extensive knowledge of information and techniques used to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Knowledge of professional and ethical standards of practice and interventions appropriate for the assigned population.
- Ability to function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience providing medical care in a correctional setting.
- Completion of an approved residency in a primary care specialty.
- Board eligible or certified in a primary care specialty.
- Comprehensive knowledge of mental illness.
- Comprehensive knowledge of current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic criteria.
Responsibilities
- Provide professional medical care and medication management to offenders with assistance from nursing staff.
- Analyze and interpret patient histories, symptoms, physical findings, and diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
- Diagnose or treat acute health care problems, including illnesses, infections, and injuries.
- Recommend diagnostic or therapeutic interventions, considering safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.
- Prescribe medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost, as legally authorized.
- Prescribe appropriate chemical or mechanical measures to assist offenders in improving behaviors.
- Assist with preparing and modifying treatment plans and recommend appropriate programs.
- Educate patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to their circumstances.
- Provide evidence-based health education to the offender population.
- Participate as a primary member of the institution’s internal multidisciplinary health services team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
