REGIONAL MEDICAL DIRECTOR - 77755

Executive Service

Background Check:

This position requires a criminal background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.

Who we are and what we do:

TDH incorporates our values into the work we do each day to achieve our mission, live our vision and address our strategic priorities.

Job Overview:

The Regional Medical Director will provide clinical leadership, guide quality improvement efforts, communicate policies and procedures, and participate in key workgroups and committees. This role works closely with a strong regional leadership team and is part of a statewide group of Regional Medical Directors reporting to the Medical Director of Community Health Services.

Key Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities include overseeing physicians and nurse practitioners delivering reproductive health services for women, leading primary care services in four county health departments, and ensuring compliance with policies, regulations, and best practice standards. The Regional Medical Director will also direct the regional response to communicable disease reports and ensure completion of the Child Fatality Review process as required by state law.

Minimum Qualifications:

The Regional Medical Director must have completed a graduate medical education program and hold either a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree, have been board certified in their specialty, and maintain a valid license to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.