Clinical Educator Infection Control Practitioner

Definition

Position Summary : Under the general supervision of the Chief Nursing Officer and in consultation with the Quality and Compliance Administrator the Clinical Educator will design plan and implement clinical training programs and competencies to fulfill HHS needs. This position also oversees multiple HHS patient areas and directs all infection prevention related activities associated with surveillance performance improvement and education which are intended to ensure that the facilitys patients personnel and visitors will be protected from transmission of diseases and infection within the facilitys environment as identified by accreditation and other Infection Prevention and Control certification agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This job class is treated as FLSA Exempt and considered a non-driving position.

Essential Functions : Essential functions may vary among positions but may include the following tasks knowledge abilities skills and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY and is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of tasks performed by all positions in this classification.

Examples of Tasks

1. Clinical Educator :

• Provides clinical and professional expertise as a leader consultant facilitator and change agent to support the organization in the provision of quality patient care.
• Ensure the clinical competence of staff and foster the delivery of evidence-based practice.
• Uses evidence-based practices and research that focuses on the knowledge and skills required to care for patients in the assigned areas including quality improvement safety and regulatory / accreditation requirements and outcomes evaluation of programs projects education and training.
• Supports the ongoing development of staff through coaching mentoring and role modeling.
• Collaborates with members of leadership team in providing appropriate educational opportunities for licensed and unlicensed personnel.
• Maintains an active rounding practice to go and see activities such as training initiatives in process progress of orientee and preceptor dyads how skills are applied in the clinical setting.
• Completes a continuing education needs assessment using staff surveys KPI outcome metrics regulatory standards and other data for area of assignment then plans develops conducts and evaluates mandatory and elective education and on-the-job training programs.
• Conducts follow up assessments to ensure the training meets the employees needs and that the desired behaviors are being exhibited.
• Regularly teaches or facilitates new hire orientation mentor and preceptor programs which contribute to employee retention and engagement.
• Serves as an expert consultant for staff in areas of program development clinical practice and professional development.
• Executes tasks and behaves in a manner consistent with a culture of compliance safety and a high reliability organization and adheres to organizational policies and procedures.
• In collaboration with leadership contributes to and executes on the organizations process for defining assessing maintaining demonstrating and improving the competence of clinical staff on an ongoing basis linking competencies to unit performance measures or system outcomes.
• Will act as a backup LMS administrator and assist primary LMS administrator with training course creation competency creation and reporting and tracking efforts.

2. Infection Prevention :

Knowledge Skills Abilities and Other Characteristics :

Minimum Qualifications

Special Requirements

Prior to hire as an employee applicants will be subject to drug and alcohol testing. Will be required to pass a pre-employment background / fingerprint check.

SRPMIC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Preference will be given to a qualified : Community Member Veteran Community Member Spouse of Community Member qualified Native American and then other qualified candidate.

In order to obtain preference the following is required : 1) Qualified Community Member Veteran (DD-214) will be required at the time of application submission 2) Qualified Community Member (must provide Tribal I.D at time of application submission)3) Spouse of a Community Member (Marriage License / certificate and spouse Tribal ID or CIB is required at time of application submission) and 4) Native American (Tribal ID or CIB required at time of application submission).

Documents may be submitted by one of the following methods :

1) attach to application

2) email to

3) fax

4) mail or hand deliver to Human Resources.

Documentation must be received by position closing date.

The IHS / BIA Form-4432 is not accepted.

Your Tribal ID / CIB must be submitted to HR-Recruitment-Two Waters.

Key Skills

Early Childhood Education,Algebra,Classroom Experience,Lesson Planning,Special Education,Adult Education,Special Needs,Calculus,Teaching,Geometry,Experience with Children,Public Speaking

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 87412 - 120191