Educator

Job Description

The Educator will be an expert in industry best education standards supporting and guiding caregivers in self-improvement and self-development. The Educator will assess, guide, support, coordinate, and evaluate caregivers? orientation and ongoing learning needs in alignment with their associated program, service or care group. Under the direction of the Education Manager will be a resource, consultant, and mentor to caregivers and clinical coaches in their assigned area fostering self-reliance and building a social team.

Scope

This position is a enterprise level position that develops education for Home Medical Equipment, assists with registering candidates for required trainings and assists with joint commission audits by pulling education records. This is a full-time facility level role directly reporting to the local Education Manager with dotted line accountability to clinical leaders based on portfolio.

Job Essentials

Collaborate with Clinical Education Director, Operations and Education Manager colleagues across the organization to understand goals, priorities, learning needs for care area (e.g., performance, competencies, skills, new initiatives), and ensure continued education practice consistencies within specialties for all caregivers.

Facilitate high quality and focused new caregiver orientation, support ongoing learning needs of existing caregivers, and clinical coaches, ensuring learning opportunities by utilizing standardized orientation tools and resources.

Execute learning initiatives as guided by the Education Manager including but not limited to the coordination of new skill development, transition to new equipment or processes, and providing just in time in-services/refreshers.

Conduct needs assessment and communicate findings to clinical managers and education manager.

Assist in novice to expert mastery.

Evaluate clinical education outcomes and report outcomes to Education Manager.

Maintain huddle board metrics associated with clinical education.

Document learning requirements utilizing recommended approved tools.

Support compliance and regulation in preparation for surveys and audits (e.g., The Joint Commission, CMS).

Support simulation-based learning needs of new and existing employees (e.g., acts as facilitator, confederate, subject matter expert in the development of scenarios or during simulation activities).

Provide coaching and mentoring to clinical coaches and caregivers to assist them in managing their own personal learning, growth, and job enrichment opportunities.

Ensure learners are aware of learning expectations

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in clinical area from an accredited university. Education is verified.
• Current clinical license in state of practice.
• For health care providers in patient care areas: Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)
• Two years of experience in leadership, education, mentoring, and coaching.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships.
• Experience in a role requiring collaboration and strong customer service orientation, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with professionals at all levels.
• Builds interdisciplinary relationships and engages in collaborative efforts to design and implement optimal learning solutions. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and priorities and meet deadlines.
• Experience in a role requiring effective verbal, written, interpersonal, and consensus-building communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to teach, present and facilitate learning activities.
• Ability to travel on occasion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Education, Professional Development, Instructional Design.
• Certification in relevant clinical area.
• Experience with effectively utilizing information systems, software, and technologies to design, develop, and deliver learning, including Learning Management Systems, Learning Content Management System, and E-learning development software.
• Two years experience in strategic planning and continuous improvement.
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and ass…