Clinical Educator

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Clinical Educator

Department: Nursing

Status: Hourly

Position Classification/Category: Nursing

Location: Corporate Office

Reports To: Clinical Nurse Education Manager

Direct Reports: None

Summary of Position:

With oversight from the Clinical Nurse Education Manager, develops clinical education and competency validation for all clinical staff. Remains current with best/evidence-based practice standards for Ambulatory Care to ensure policy/procedure development and maintenance for adherence to standards. Collaborates with various disciplines within Kintegra, medical providers, behavioral health providers, to incorporate clinical processes focused on the patient population served. Perform direct patient care services in support of developed curricula to demonstrate, teach and coach clinical staff.

Experience:

Experience with staff development and training. Three years of management and/or supervisory experience in a healthcare setting is preferred but not required. Pediatric experience is preferred but not required.

Certification : BCLS/CPR

Professional Licensure:

Unrestricted North Carolina Licensed Registered Nurse

Unrestricted North Carolina Licensed Practical Nurse

Registered or Certified Medical Assistant

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops/Updates Clinical Policy and Procedures to remain consistent with best practice standards.

• Develops clinical competency education, conducts competency evaluation in SIMS and within clinics

• Maintains compliance for all Kintegra Sites for response to code blue, develops scenarios, and conducts competency evaluation by various, biannually.

• Assist with Relias (learning management system) evaluating/reviewing modules for annual competency, new hire required competencies based upon discipline, and implements additional training, as needed.

• Plans, designs, and implements ongoing staff development education.

• Supports clinical staff in the clinic as needed

• Manage education request via the internal ticket system JIRA

• Maintain communication among Practice Managers/clinical staff to promote understanding of clinical practice

• Attend required meetings to monitor clinical education needs, development, or remediation within clinical practice.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Kintegra Health is a community sponsored, family-centered provider of health care, health education and preventive care services without regard to the ability to pay. All potential employees are screened to ensure alignment with the core position requirements and the required position skills set. Kintegra Health is searching for employees who are: 1) committed to the Kintegra Health mission; 2) who demonstrate the characteristics of Kintegra Health core values (listed below) and 3) who strive to achieve improvements in a dynamic and changing health care environment.

Kintegra Health Core Requirements

1. Patient First – An approach to care that holds primary, the well-being and desires of the patient

2. Build not Blame – Focusing first on finding fault with the process rather than the person

3. Integrity and Honesty – Fostering an acceptance of openness, honesty, and fairness in words, deeds and the use of organizational resources judiciously for both internal and external customers

4. Cooperation and Flexibility – Related to an internal belief that we function as part of an interdependent team with only shared gains or losses thereby committed to assisting whenever possible beyond the prerequisite job description

5. Culturally Sensitive – Always working toward increasing one’s ability to understand, communicate with, effectively interact and care for people across cultures, while having an acute awareness of one’s own culture.

Kintegra Health Goals

• To provide continuing comprehensive and accessible primary care services to individuals and families of all economic levels within Gaston County.

• To provide primary care services to meet the physical as well as social health needs of individuals and families, promoting health maintenance, providing timely diagnostics, treatment and referral services.

• To emphasize preventive care through patient and community education to help individuals become aware and responsible for their own health behaviors.

• To employ an interdisciplinary team approach in collaboration with other community providers to provide a continuum of appropriate patient centered care in a cost-effective manner.