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Role Summary

The Clinical Ethicist serves as a siteembedded ethics consultant at designated hospitals and contributes to a systemwide 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; decisionmaking 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 decisionmaking capacity, informed consent and refusal, surrogate decisionmaking, goals of care, endoflife care, potentially inappropriate treatment, and valuebased conflict.

The ethicist:

• Assists stakeholders in identifying and clarifying ethical questions
• Provides structured ethical analysis and options for consideration
• Offers ethics recommendations, not decisions
• Documents consultations clearly and accurately
• Follows cases as appropriate to support understanding and relieve moral distress
• Refers to appropriate resources within the hospital setting for additional support

Ethics recommendations integrate patient values and preferences, clinical context, professional ethical standards, organizational policies, and applicable federal and state health care law, including relevant case law. Recommendations are intended to support, not replace, the deliberation and judgment of clinicians and patients or their surrogates.

Respectful Engagement, Communication, and Facilitation

The Clinical Ethicist engages patients, families, clinicians, and leaders in a respectful, collaborative, and nondirective manner. Using facilitation and mediation skills, the ethicist:

• Creates psychologically safe spaces for dialogue
• Supports exploration of values, goals, and moral concerns
• Helps manage moral distress and ethical uncertainty
• Promotes fair process and mutual understanding

The ethicist maintains neutrality with respect to treatment choices while supporting ethically sound deliberation.

Preventive Ethics and Site Integration

As a siteembedded resource, the Clinical Ethicist participates in ethics rounds, interdisciplinary discussions, and leadership consultations to proactively identify and address ethical concerns. Preventive ethics efforts focus on reducing recurrent conflict, supporting ethical practice, and strengthening local ethics capacity.

Education and Training

Education is a core responsibility of the role. The Clinical Ethicist develops and delivers ethics education primarily for hospital ethics committee members, followed by clinical teams and learners. Education emphasizes ethical reasoning, consultation skills, respectful engagement, and alignment with organizational policies and law.

Policy and Legal Knowledge

The Clinical Ethicist contributes to ethicsrelated policy development and interpretation. The role requires a working knowledge of state and federal health care law relevant to clinical ethics consultation and familiarity with case law that informs ethical practice. Legal knowledge is used to contextualize ethical recommendations, not to provide legal determinations.

Professional Contribution

Scholarly activity related to clinical ethics consultation is encouraged, including teaching, publication, and presentation.

SystemWide Ethics Contributions

The Clinical Ethicist contributes to a systemwide ethics oversight committee, supporting consistency and quality across the ethics program. Responsibilities include participation in:

• Review of ethics consultation practices and complex cases
• Systemlevel ethics education initiatives
• Review and alignment of ethicsrelated policies and guidance

This work is conducted collaboratively with clinical leaders, legal counsel, compliance, and risk management, while maintaining the distinct advisory role of ethics consultation.

Role Boundaries

• The Clinical Ethicist does not direct care, make treatment decisions, or override clinical judgment.
• The ethicist provides ethics guidance and recommendations to support informed, valuesbased decisionmaking by patients, families, and clinicians.
• Engagement is consultative, collaborative, and supportive at all times.
   

Education:  Master's degree in Bioethics or similar degree. 

• Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.

• Doctorate: Ethics, JD, PhD (Philosophy), DMH or related area preferred

5 years clinical ethics consultant or related healthcare field

Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified HEC-C (ASBH) prefered