Assistant Provost for Health and Wellness - Faculty Physician - Thomas Jefferson University

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The Assistant Provost for Health and Wellness is responsible for the overall direction, leadership and administration of learner wellness.  This includes providing high quality physical and mental health care, and health promotion services to students. The Assistant Provost will oversee educational outreach and all health promotion programs and services.  Additionally, the Assistant Provost will provide direct primary care for eligible patients, spending 50% of their time providing direct patient care and 50% of their time administratively.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a plan to provide primary medical care to students and assure adequate, safe, and timely services.
• Responsible for the administration, planning, implementation and evaluation of counseling and student health services.
• Create and implement an enterprise-wide program for student health promotion and wellbeing, empowering our students to make decisions contributing to positive health behaviors.
• Participate in policy making to promote overall student health and illness prevention initiatives throughout the University.
• Provide direct patient care.
• Collaborate with Graduate Medical Education (GME) counseling and programming.
• Serve as the liaison to Jefferson Occupational Health Network for student health in Center City.
• Interacts with co-workers, visitors and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.

Candidate Qualifications:

• MD, DO or foreign equivalent.
• Physician candidates must be board certified or board eligible in family medicine. If board-eligible the selected candidate must pass the boards within two years of hire.
• Experience in student health and/or adolescent/young adult care required.
• Candidates with leadership experience is preferred.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.