Director, Ethics Integration

Title: Director, Ethics Integration

Location: Austin United States

Job Description:

Details

• Department: MWF Mission
• Schedule: Full Time, Days
• Location: Austin, Texas - Remote
• Salary: $142,936.00 - $201,792.00 (per year)
• Eligible for annual bonus incentive

Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO)
• Various health insurance options & wellness plans
• Retirement benefits including employer match plans
• Long-term & short-term disability
• Employee assistance programs (EAP)
• Parental leave & adoption assistance
• Tuition reimbursement

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Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance, location and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

As the Director, Ethics Integration for our Ascension Texas ministry, you will have the opportunity to direct the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and strategies for issues regarding bioethics and organizational ethics. Please note this position is remote but will require an on-site presence for consultations and meetings.

Other responsibilities will include:

• Provide support to leadership teams to ensure a highly reliable Catholic ministry identity, consistent with The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
• Provide Strategic and operational leadership for clinical ethics programming with the ministry markets.
• Provide subject matter expertise relative to organizational ethics and church relations within the ministry markets.
• Provide and coordinate ethics consultations and chart interventions as needed.
• Assist with developing and providing ethics education resources and programs.
• Serve as a resource to leadership, committees and teams requiring ethics representation.

Requirements

Education:

• Master's in Healthcare Ethics, Bioethics or Theology required.
• PhD preferred.

Work Experience:

• 5 years of experience required.
• 10 years of experience preferred.
• 2 years of leadership or management experience required.
• 5 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

• PhD strongly preferred
• 5+ years of Clinical Ethics experience
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the Catholic moral tradition, including application of the Ethical and Religious Directives to complex clinical care issues.
• Experience in health care, preferably Catholic health care, especially working with ethics committees and performing clinical ethics consultations and ethics education.
• Experience in evaluating and structuring values-compatible mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, and agreements with other-than Catholic organizations.
• Extensive knowledge of and demonstrated familiarity with the following: Health Care Ethics (with a concentration in Clinical Bioethics), the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, Catholic Social Thought, health care systems and institutions, health care law, health care administration, including ethics committees and processes of clinical consultation.

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Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

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As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

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