Disability Rights and Ethics Strategist, Sr

The part-time role is mostly remote, however flexibility to attend on-site meetings in either the Milwaukee or Charlotte area may be required.

Key responsibilities include clinical, organizational, and social ethics consultation; overseeing the ethics consultation request mechanism and Ethics Program SharePoint site; collection, analysis and interpretation of clinical, social, and organizational ethics data; and management of ethics education resources. Analyzes ethical issues related to clinical, social, and/or organizational ethics issues to facilitate communication and decision making among leaders, team members, patients, families, and substitute/surrogate decision makers; provides ethics education to leaders, team members, patients, substitute/surrogate decision makers, and the community; and contributes ethical analysis to policy review and development.

Major Responsibilities:

• Conduct expert ethical analysis of clinical, social, and organizational ethics issues through applying ethical decision making frameworks with interdisciplinary teams. Implement projects to address and resolve pressing ethical issues facing leaders and team members.
• Maintains clear and comprehensive documentation for ethics consultation performed, including documentation in patient’s electronic health record if appropriate. Follows up with team after consultation and facilitates ethics debriefing if necessary. Serves as a resource for ethics consult team members in their consultation training and process, including documentation.
• Ensures availability of Ethicist expertise for clinical ethics consult requests received after regular business hours, weekends, and holidays providing backup consult coverage when needed.
• Develop proactive tools to guide leaders and team members to assess and resolve ethical issues, including organizational ethics decision making frameworks related to new and enduring issues in clinical, social, and organizational ethics.
• Maintain, update, and advance system-wide Ethics Consultation Request mechanisms. Develop and update tracking and reporting systems respective to clinical, social, and organizational ethics issues requiring varying levels of support. Collect, analyze, interpret, and communicate trends in ethics consultation data to inform quality improvement projects. Align Ethics Program processes with best practices in analyzing trends in ethics services and update processes as part of continuous quality improvement.
• Assist in the production of quarterly Ethics Program dashboard to include consultation data and trends, ethics education priorities, and ethics policy development and revision.  Support reporting processes and systems required to produce the dashboard.  Collaborate with leadership to align the Ethics Program dashboard reporting with system goals, priorities and iniatives and update the dashboard format when needed.  Provide monthly consultation data summaries and weekly ethics consultation volume reports.
• Advance quality through establishing survey processes and collate and analyze information to identify trends. This responsibility includes post-consultation surveys and other gap analyses to identify trends reported on the quarterly Ethics Program dashboard and help inform ethics education initiatives and awareness campaigns.
• Manage Ethics Program SharePoint Site and awareness campaigns, including education and communication plans for system wide ethics education, policy, and consultation offerings and services. Act as Ethics Program point of contact when collaborating on interdepartmental projects (e.g. IT, Public Affairs & Marketing, HIM/Epic).

Education Required:

• Master's Degree in bioethics, health care ethics, or medical ethics; or appropriate degree in a related field (e.g. philosophy, law, theology) with a focus on ethics in coursework and training.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 5-6 years in practice or completion of an ethics fellowship, including experience with ethics consultation and ethics committee membership.  

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Demonstrated knowledge, skills and attributes as defined in the Core Competencies for Health Care Ethics Consultation (ASBH).
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong interpersonal and diplomacy skills with demonstrated ability to handle sensitive situations and communications.
• Excellent listening and comprehension skills.
• Understanding of logic and how emotions, beliefs, and moral standards interact.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to be objective.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office or similar products.
• Ability to work in stressful situations, with incomplete information, under time pressure, and with emotionally distraught people.

Pay Range

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program