What are the responsibilities and job description for the Regional Medical Director position at Agile Occupational Medicine?
Position Summary:
The Regional Medical Director leads and oversees the clinical operations of occupational medicine services across assigned clinics. Provide clinical leadership and medical oversight to physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners while ensuring high-quality patient care, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance. Serve as both a practicing physician and administrative leader, delivering direct patient care as needed while driving continuous improvement in clinical services and outcomes.
Responsibilities:
Clinical Leadership (80%)
- Provide direct patient care in absence or lack of sufficient medical coverage at clinics for defined region.
- Provide medical care for work-related initial injuries to patients who require physician-only evaluation and treatment for first visits.
- Communicate and collaborate with medical staff to ensure coordinated efforts for the delivery of high-quality medical treatment and client service.
- Assist operations in identifying, analyzing, and resolving clinical issues in the delivery of care.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing clinical methods and procedures and suggest improvements.
- Participate in the orientation of new staff physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and other medical providers by reviewing administrative and clinical procedures.
Administrative Oversight (20%)
- Assist clinical staff in understanding and complying with policies and procedures.
- Ensure compliance by medical staff with company policies regarding ethical, legal, and professional issues.
- Ensure compliance by medical and clinical staff with applicable regulations and with corporate policies and procedures.
- Maintain quality assurance for all medical issues and assist in the solution of any clinical issues.
- Assist in recruitment of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners as necessary.
- Direct, review and evaluate the performance of physicians and physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
- Serve as a liaison between the medical staff and operations.
- Contribute solutions to intra- and inter-departmental problems.
- Mediate professional disputes and problems.
- Support sales and marketing efforts in securing new and maintaining existing clients as necessary.
- Assist in the resolution of patient and employer grievances regarding medical issues.
- Perform quality assurance and utilization reviews of medical charts.
- Collaborate with operations in the implementation of special projects
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of occupational medicine related to the treatment of work-related illnesses and injuries.
- Knowledge of organizational and medical policies, regulations and procedures.
- Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish a safe work site environment.
- Skill with using electronic medical records systems, writing occupational medicine reports, and responding to correspondences.
- Skill in developing and maintaining medical quality assurance and quality control standards.
- Soft skills are associated with establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with patients, medical staff, employers/clients, payors and the public.
- Ability to react calmly, objectively and effectively in emergency situations.
- Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing with patients, staff and clients.
Education, Licenses/Certification
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) from a U.S. accredited institution or meeting all state medical licensing requirements (ECFMG) for international or foreign medical graduates.
- Board certification in an approved medical specialty by the ABMS or AOA
- Current unrestricted medical license to practice medicine in the state where the medical clinic is located
- Current radiology supervisor and operator certification
- Current CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE from the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
- Current BLS/AED certification
- Current NRCME certification to perform DOT medical examinations
Experience: Previous experience of at least 5 years in Occupational Medicine highly preferred.
Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups. Ability to effectively relay information to and between internal and external customers.
Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent, and to create and interpret data.
Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to manage complications involving several variables in standardized situations.
Work Environment and Conditions: Work is performed predominantly in a clinical setting working with clinicians seeing patients along with clinicians as part of training and mentoring clinicians. Involves frequent telephone contact with patients, carriers and clients. Contact may involve dealing with angry, upset or difficult people. Work may require some flexibility in hours to cover the needs of the clinic.
Physical Demands: Work requires standing and walking as well as stooping, bending, and stretching for files and office and medical supplies. Occasional lifting to 50 pounds. Requires moderate typing skills and sufficient manual dexterity to operate a keyboard, telephone, and such other office equipment as necessary. Normal or corrected vision to levels for common office work. Hearing within the acceptable range for telephone contacts. It is necessary to view computer screens and type on computer keyboards for intermittent periods of time.
NOTE: This job description may not include all the duties assigned to the employee and may be updated and modified by the Chief Medical Officer, according to the operations at any given time.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Optimal work life balance with no nights, no weekends, and no holidays requirement to work
- Opportunity to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Be part of a team that is passionate about making a difference
- Agile offers an annual CME Stipend ($1,000-$1,500) as well as Medbridge subscription
Salary:
Starting compensation range $300,000.00 - $325,000.00 annually. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Why You Should Join Our Team
Agile Occupational Medicine is a leading occupational medicine group with a network of 24 clinics and one surgery center dedicated to providing comprehensive healthcare services to businesses and their employees across California and Yuma, Arizona. We specialize in ensuring the health and well-being of workers through a range of medical services, including injury care (workers’ compensation), physical examinations (employer services), and commercial (urgent care)
We are a rapidly growing company with a fun and collaborative work environment. We are passionate about disrupting the world of occupational medicine, and we are committed to providing our customers and patients with the best possible experience. We offer our employees competitive salaries, commission, and benefits, and we give them the opportunity to make a real impact on the business.
Agile Occupational Medicine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Agile does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided upon qualifications, merit, and business need.
Salary : $300,000 - $325,000