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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:

• 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 non‑directive 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 site‑embedded 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 ethics‑related 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.

  System‑Wide Ethics Contributions

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

• Review of ethics consultation practices and complex cases

• System‑level ethics education initiatives

• Review and alignment of ethics‑related 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, values‑based decision‑making 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

At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ

• Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ

• Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ

• Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ

• Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ

• Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ

• Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ

• Atlantic Medical Group

• Atlantic Visiting Nurse

• Atlantic Mobile Health

• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."

• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.

• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.

• Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.

• Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.

• Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.

• Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.

• Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.

• Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.

  Located in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, Chilton Medical Center has been ranked the top mid-sized hospital in NJ for six years in a row, according to Castle Connolly. The Leapfrog Group gave us an "A" Hospital Safety Grade and we've received the Lifeline Bronze Receiving Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. In addition, The Joint Commission recognized us as a Primary Stroke Center. We were awarded the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite. We achieved Magnet® recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. ANCC’s Magnet Recognition Program® identifies superior quality in nursing care and is the highest national honor for nursing excellence.

Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:

Team Member Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)

• Life & AD&D Insurance.

• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)

• 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution

• PTO & Paid Sick Leave

• Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising

• Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave

• Backup and On-Site Childcare

• Well-Being Rewards

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program

• Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts

• Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance

Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.

EEO STATEMENT

Atlantic Health, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor and therefore abides by applicable laws to protect applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, genetics, or veteran status.