Job Description

The Obstetrician Gynecologist will provide excellent, evidence-based, efficient patient care services, as well as resident and student teaching, mentoring, effective supervision. This role is a flexible role within the department of OB/GYN to help meet the clinical needs of the department to include outpatient, rural, and inpatient work.

Clinical Supervision and Teaching:

• Supervise Ob/Gyn residents, Family Practice residents, fellows, and students at Mission Hospitals on Labor and Delivery, as well as patients in the Emergency Room, Antepartum, and Postpartum, Operating room, and Post-operative setting.
• Supervise advanced practice providers of MAHEC Ob-Gyn in Mission Hospitals.
• Consult and collaborate with regional care providers seeking care for patients needing transport or with high acuity situations.
• Provide collaboration and consultation for providers for whom MAHEC OB/GYN are the backup providers.
• Provider collaboration and consultation as the Obstetric Hospitalist while fulfilling that role in Mission Hospitals.
• Provide training and didactics on general obstetric and gynecologic topics. Provides teaching topics for resident night float team.
• Provide evaluation both formative and summative to residents and learners using myTIPreport.
• Provide appropriate face to face feedback to residents and students in a professional and constructive manner.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Skills

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.

• Decision Making

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.

• HealthCare Knowledge

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate. This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area of expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.

• Interpersonal Skills

Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others.

• Organizational Values

Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need.

• Problem Solving

Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change.

SPECIFIED SKILLS

• COMPUTER
  • Experience using Electronic Medical Records preferred.
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE
  • Spanish language speaking skills preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Moderate physical activity such as standing, walking, using hands and arms to reach, lift or support patients, and feel, talk, and listening on a frequent basis. Occasionally stoops, kneels, or crawls. Sometimes sits, climbs, or balances.
• Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 40 pounds or standing and/or walking for long periods of time.
• Work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of protective equipment.
• Will work with blood or blood-borne pathogens and will require OSHA training.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Not Applicable.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Board Certification or active candidate for certification by ABOG. Current North Carolina Medical License. Hospital privileges at Mission Hospitals. Current DEA certification.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Resident training experience preferred.

REQUIRED LICENSES:

Current North Carolina Medical License.

SCHEDULE:

Regular attendance on-site is an essential function of this position.

At MAHEC , we strive to equip all team members with Total Rewards (pay + benefits) to honor their service, support their health, manage their financial security, build their career, and thrive.

All MAHEC employees and learners will be required to receive the Flu vaccine or have an approved exemption.

MAHEC Talent Management is located at 121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803. Equal Opportunity Employer.

MAHEC is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. Employees who meet federal requirements may be eligible to have remaining student loan balances forgiven after 10 years of qualifying payments while working full-time at MAHEC.

If you are interested in this role, and you have related experience and qualifications, we encourage you to apply or reach out to AskTalent@mahec.net for support in your job search process. You could be the talent we are seeking for this or other opportunities.