Confidential Medical Director - Corrections (Perm)
This confidential leadership opportunity provides strategic and clinical oversight for comprehensive healthcare services within a corrections setting. The role is responsible for ensuring safe, evidence-based, and compliant care delivery across medical operations while partnering with facility leadership, security staff, and clinical teams.
Location & Compensation
- Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
- Schedule: Full-time, on-site presence required (schedule details provided during interview)
- Salary: Based on experience
Key Responsibilities
- Provide medical direction for clinical services, including primary care, chronic disease management, urgent/emergent care coordination, and medication management.
- Lead and support multidisciplinary teams; set clinical priorities, staffing plans, and performance expectations.
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal and state regulations, standards of care, and correctional healthcare policies and procedures.
- Oversee quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, peer review, and risk management activities to promote patient safety.
- Collaborate with custody leadership to align healthcare operations with facility security requirements and operational constraints.
- Guide utilization management, referral processes, and continuity of care planning, including discharge and reentry coordination when applicable.
- Support incident response, review adverse events, and implement corrective action plans as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Current, unrestricted Physician license eligible for practice in Texas (or ability to obtain Texas licensure within 180 days of hire).
- Must have successfully completed an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or American Medical Association (AMA) approved residency for appropriate specialty.
- Minimum of five (5) years of management experience in clinical medicine programs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead clinical teams, manage change, and drive quality and operational performance.
- Strong working knowledge of clinical documentation standards, patient privacy requirements, and interdisciplinary care coordination.
- Ability to pass required background checks and meet facility access requirements typical of correctional environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a correctional health environment.
- Prior clinical executive leadership experience and rapid assessment/implementation capability.
Skills & Competencies
- High level of clinical judgment, ethical decision-making, and communication skills.
- Data-informed approach to quality improvement, patient safety, and utilization management.
- Ability to work effectively in a secure, highly structured setting with diverse stakeholders.
