Clinical Ethicist Part Time Days 8a-4p Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center

Job description

Role Summary The Clinical Ethicist serves as a site‑embedded ethics consultant at designated hospitals and contributes to a system‑wide ethics program through consultation standards, education, and policy review. The role supports patients, families, clinicians, and organizations through ethical analysis, facilitation, and guidance. The Clinical Ethicist does not make clinical or care decisions ; decision‑making authority remains with patients, families, and clinical teams. The ethicist’s role is consultative, advisory, and supportive. Core Responsibilities: Clinical Ethics Consultation: The Clinical Ethicist receives and conducts clinical ethics consultations at assigned sites using nationally recognized best practices. Requests for ethics may be received from patients and family as well as the clinical team directly involved in the care of the patient. Consultations address ethically complex issues in patient care, including decision‑making capacity, informed consent and refusal, surrogate decision‑making, goals of care, end‑of‑life care, potentially inappropriate treatment, and value‑based conflict. The ethicist: Ethics recommendations integrate patient values and preferences, c...