Clinical Ethicist
Job ID:
R169466
Shift:
1st
Full/Part Time:
Full_time
Pay Range:
$43.30 – $64.95
Location:
AAO Oak Brook – 2025 Windsor Dr
Oak Brook, IL 60523
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
40
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 within the position’s 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
Job Title: Clinical Ethicist
Duties: The Clinical Ethicist at Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation in Oak Brook, IL will analyze 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. Provide ethics education to leaders, team members, patients, substitute/surrogate decision makers, and the community. Serve as a resource to physicians for ethics education, policy development, and consultation regarding emerging and challenging bioethical issues in medicine. Assess medical facts, patient issues, and contextual factors through review of the medical record, relevant documentation, and conversation with care team members, patient, and/or substitute/surrogate decision-makers. Identify the ethical values held by the individuals related to the case, including moral frameworks, values, goals of care and preferences when applicable, and analyzes ethical principles pertinent to cases. Resolve communication issues, conflicts or dilemmas among team members, patients, family members, and/or substitute/surrogate decision-makers. Identify and delegate non-ethics issues to relevant departments such as Medical Staff Leadership, Administration, Compliance, Human Resources, Legal, Clinical Risk Management, Mission and Spiritual Care, etc. Document ethics consultation performed and present ethics debriefing to team and ethics committee when necessary. Keep abreast of developments in the field of bioethics. Position is 100% remote. Telecommuting available from the following states: AL, AR, AZ, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WY.
Minimum Requirements: Requires a Medical degree (M.D.) or foreign equivalent and one year of fellowship training in pediatric bioethics, bioethics, clinical ethics, or medical ethics.
Salary: $114,317
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation's ongoing employee referral program does apply to this position.
Interested candidates should apply by sending a resume to sally.warkaske@aah.org with the subject line “Clinical Ethicist Application”.
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state’s largest private employers, the system serves patients across 11 hospital locations, including two children’s campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate Health Care, in addition to Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, is now a part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in annual community benefits.
