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Expected pay for this position is $53.71 - $71.16/hour. Actual pay will be determined by experience, skills and internal equity. This is a Salaried position.

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY:

Serves as the manager of the ethics consultation service for an identified region(s) or multiple operating units and as an ethicist for an identified location. The manager will precept and guide ethics leads and assist in their formation, education, and professional development. The manager will focus on ethics consultation, education, policy review and implementation, and ethics committee needs. As the primary ethicist, the manager will implement the ethics agenda and strategy in their identified locations and will ensure the ethics leads they manage implement the agenda and strategy into their assigned locations. The manager will identify ethics consultation, education, policy, and committee needs across their consultation service locations, and will work collaboratively to incorporate those needs into the ministry wide ethics agenda and strategy. In collaboration with the center for excellence in ethics, the manager will work with local ethics committees in their individual formation and education plans. The manager will ensure all ethics consults are entered into the ethics data management system for their consultation service locations and will work with the center to assess and determine the strategy for ethics consultation. The Manager will also participate in efforts to integrate ethics values and concerns of the Catholic healthcare ministry into clinical practice and the organizational culture, using the Gospel, Church teachings, the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services and ‘preventive, integrative and proactive ethics.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Master’s degree in healthcare ethics, bioethics, theology, theological ethics, philosophical ethics, law or a field related to healthcare ethics.

Experience:

• 1 year of experience, with progressive responsibility, in managing a healthcare or related department and its staff, including planning, and staff review roles.
• 1 year of experience in healthcare ethics.

Other Skills/ Knowledge:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Solid computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft software.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to be detail oriented.
• Excellent teaching, communication and mediation skills, both in personal interaction and group settings. Can facilitate clinical discussions to a positive cooperative result with clinical staff and patients and their surrogates and family members on ethics issues.
• Engages personal interactions with openness and compassion appropriate in the Catholic healthcare ministry.
• Relates respectfully and well with persons.
• Maintains confidentiality and trust necessary for professional interaction.
• Demonstrated understanding and ability to apply, as well as competently teach, the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services as well as other key source texts relative to the Catholic Healthcare Ministry A Catholic, who accepts and supports the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. Possesses competency and respectfulness regarding the needs of others relative to cultures, traditions, and religious beliefs and practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Doctorate in theological ethics, philosophical ethics, bioethics, or healthcare ethics. Experience: 2 years of experience in healthcare ethics role

Licensure/ Certification: Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C)

OSF HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.