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The Veterinary Medical Center of Central NY is looking for a Medical Director.  The Medical Director will work directly with the clinicians, support staff leaders and the administrative team to align goals, impact change, and endorse our positive, collaborative culture.

• Job Description:
  To provide medical, professional, ethical, and cultural leadership within the specialty veterinary services at Veterinary Medical Center of CNY.
• To provide overall training, supervision, organization, direction, and evaluation of specialty services.
• To act as a meaningful and operational liaison between specialists and administration/executive team.
• To work collaboratively with clinicians and executive team leaders.

Position Description:

The Medical Director fosters strong working relationships between specialists and hospital administrators that benefit both interests. The Medical Director inspires excellence, helping create and attain a shared vision for the delivery of specialty medicine in the practice. The VMC Medical Director supports a vision for a mindfully led and collaborative ER/Specialty Veterinary facility, and assists the leadership team with aligning clinicians with the practice goals and cultural initiatives. The Medical Director maintains the framework for delivering quality and cost-effective care to our patients, and excellent client service to the pet owner. The Medical Director exemplifies and leads our organizational culture that values all clinicians as collaborative members of a health care team rather than as autonomous specialists/veterinarians.

Major areas of responsibility include but are not limited to:

• Management of patients within own specialty service 
• Administrative responsibilities as Medical Director include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Develops, approves, and ensures our standards of care are upheld
  • Oversees specialty veterinarians in regards to procedures, performance and ethics
  • Assists in veterinary specialist recruiting, orientation, management, development, and training
  • Receives and approves all specialty service scheduling to ensure comprehensive service availability and support
  • Policy development, implementation, and documentation
  • Approves new medication and product requests
  • Maintains awareness of daily operations and assists in proactively addressing problems
  • Oversees laboratory equipment quality control, infection control
  • Develops and promotes a team approach towards problem solving
  • Manages client complaints involving specialty services including interaction with the clients, record review, recommendations for corrective action if warranted, coaching of involved parties.
  • Maintains awareness of changing safety and regulatory standards
  • Encourages and measures clinician engagement

Requirements:

• NY State Licensed to Practice Veterinary Medicine
• Diplomate in good standing from applicable specialty college
• Preferred
• 4+ years experience in management role
• Formal Leadership Training/education/Continuing education
• Demonstrated leadership skills and positive response to coaching
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with clients, colleagues, and support staff.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including conflict management and relationship building
• Calm under pressure.
• Flexible – able to compromise; willing to adjust to change in a positive manner.
• Team player – willing to work with other clinicians and staff to support the needs of the practice
• Maintains integrity at all times and serves as a mentor and role model for colleagues and staff
• Balanced – embraces healthy work-life balance.
• Manages change successfully
• Practices mindful leadership
• Excellent organizational skills, able to complete multiple projects in a timely manner
• Demonstrated ability to utilize business principles and systems thinking