Staff Clinical Ethics Consultant

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 Centers 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.

Please include CV and cover letter with your application.