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Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:
- Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.
- Serves as a physician resource for the City of Austin/Travis County EMS System.
- Provides direct medical control, field clinical care delivery, and development and implementation of patient-focused programs.
- Responds to emergency calls as needed.
- Performs clinical review of care provided identified by random review or specific inquiry or complaint.
- Develops, reviews, validates, and implements clinical policies, procedures and operating guidelines.
- Credentials system providers and assists in oversight of all system accreditation.
- Develops and delivers educational programs for all specialty areas and organizations.
- Participates in system-wide meetings.
- Facilitates and mediates inter-organizational conflicts.
- Participates in dialogue with partners in the medical community to explore innovative programs focused on patient care and alternative delivery of appropriate medical care.
- Supports and participates in system-wide scientific research projects.
Responsibilities – Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised: None.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining good working relationships with other agencies and departments.
- Skill in the application of supervisory and management practices.
- Ability to utilize effective problem solving, build a sense of team, lead teams, and communicate effectively with coworkers, direct supervisor, other medical agency professionals, and the general public.
- Ability to educate, mentor and coach employees in a variety of styles and environments.
- Ability to make effective presentations to internal and external medical staff and prepare documents and papers of publication quality.
- Ability to direct/guide individual and team performance in a direction consistent with OCMO mission, vision and values.
- Ability to perform the skills and procedures essential to providing patient care.
- Ability to provide data oversight/interpretation/reporting as appropriate for performance improvement purposes.
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