Director Behavioral Health Curriculum

Overview

About Us

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California's Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care, comprehensive care in cardiac, orthopedics, oncology, women's and children's services, we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare.

Comprehensive Care

Dominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican's services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County, a Total Joint Replacement program, and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives 'A' grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group, and has received national recognition for superior patient safety, cardiac care, and stroke treatment from Healthgrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

As Santa Cruz County's heart attack (STEMI) receiving center, Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital's heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average, and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure, which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient's chest.

Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

In The Community

Beyond care inside the hospital, Dominican is dedicated to the health and wellness of the Santa Cruz community.

Community programs include a Mobile Wellness Clinic, a tattoo removal program, and support groups for patients and new mothers. In addition, and in accordance with our mission, Dominican Hospital supports programs for the underserved in our community, including children and adults, students, seniors, and the homeless population. Dominican also has received several awards for environmental excellence.

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Responsibilities

The Behavioral Health Curriculum Director ("BH Director") will advise and assist the Residency Program Director in behavioral health and wellness as they relate to resident education. The BH Director will manage the development and implementation of a longitudinal Behavioral Health curriculum for residents. This core faculty position includes teaching supervision administrative and clinical work designed to ensure the curriculum aligns with our goal of being a "program of excellence". ("Programs of Excellence" meet and exceed ACGME program requirements).

As a Morehouse School of Medicine faculty and a member of the More in Common Alliance programs designed to advance health equity there is opportunity to engage in national curriculum development faculty development research and advocacy. CommonSpirit Health which sponsors Dominican Hospital is the second largest not for profit health system in the country is committed to the needs for a robust quality Residency and thus provides support to ensure faculty well-being personal and professional development.

The Residency Family Medicine Practice (Resident Continuity Clinic) is in a nearby FQHC Santa Cruz Community Health in which the BH Director will be deeply engaged as well as other community partners supporting the Resident experience. The Director BH for the residency program shall focus on the integration of behavioral health into the family medicine residency educational program as well as supervision of residents in the clinical setting; serves in multiple roles including (1) Core Faculty for the family medicine training program and (2) modeling clinical care. As Core Faculty directly reports to the Program Director

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS:

• Licensing requirements in one of the following disciplines: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: to be a graduate from an accredited school of psychology and to be licensed as a clinical psychologist in the state of California or the ability to obtain a license prior to employment is required.
• PSYCHIATRIST: shall have a license as a physician and surgeon in the state of California or the ability to obtain a license prior to employment is required and show evidence of having completed three years graduate training in psychiatry in a program approved by the American Medical Association or the American Osteopathic Association.
• FAMILY PHYSICIAN: with additional training and qualifications in Behavioral Health (eg Fellowship Trained).
• NURSE PRACTITIONER: licensed to practice by the Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration in California or the ability to obtain a license prior to employment is required and possess a master's degree in psychiatric or public health nursing and two years of Nurse Practitioner clinical and/or teaching experience in a mental health setting.

EDUCATION:

• Master's Degree