Cleveland Clinic is seeking a Clinical Bioethicist to provide ethics consultation services at a multi-hospital, quaternary care system by delivering care as part of a group practice and contributing to the full range of clinical ethics program activities enterprise-wide.
Responsibilities:
-Clinical ethics consultation service: 18-20 on-call weeks including both 24/7 primary and daytime-only call responsibilities.
-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.
-Collaborate with colleagues to produce scholarship.
-Participate in ongoing clinical ethics programming, including ethics education, professional development of caregivers, and community outreach.
-Mentor and supervise bioethics fellows and rotating trainees.
-Contribute to Center- and institution-level initiatives that promote innovation.
-Provide expert input on clinical ethics issues across the Cleveland Clinic Enterprise and at the local, regional, and national levels.
The successful candidate will:
-Provide high-quality ethics consultation services, including high complexity cases on a 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 Center’s mission of innovation in clinical ethics, including quality assessment and improvement.
-Demonstrate commitment to professional growth and development.
-Demonstrate orientation toward 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.
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.