Director of Clinical Education

About the role

Provides leadership, accountability and responsibility for Clinical Development and Nursing Evidence-based practice for MercyOne Medical Center, MercyOne West Des Moines, Centerville and Newton. Oversees programs and processes related to nursing practice and education.

Responsibilities

• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Demonstrates leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, and teamwork when facilitating clinical standard and operational decisions and resolving issues.
• Demonstrates leadership competencies of team building, vision creation, and influence.
• Utilizes data to identify opportunities for clinical variation, understands graphical representations of data, and applies project-oriented expertise in identifying leading and lagging metrics for implementation effectiveness, and data plans.
• Improves the quality and effectiveness of the ministry's overall health care initiatives by providing leadership and operational direction.
• Collaborates and partners with other leaders for strategic planning, decision-making, and problem solving about health care services and organizational priorities.
• Develops resource utilization strategies to improve organizational performance.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, including The Joint Commission, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.
• Develops an annual operational plan (including scope of service) in conjunction with the Chief Nursing Officer to integrate with MercyOne’s strategic plan and other related departments’ operational plans in order to efficiently provide services.
• Develops, implements and periodically reviews all policies and procedures that guide and support the assigned services including federal and state regulations, regulatory standards, etc.
• Continuously assesses and improves the department’s performance based on, but not limited to, nursing quality plans outcomes and customer/employee satisfaction data.
• Develops and maintains departmental staffing plan for all departments supervised, detailing appropriate employee classifications and qualifications consistent with the department’s operational plan, projected volumes, and other relevant productivity indicators.
• Participates in human resource planning providing recommendations for staffing, proactive recruitment and long-term needs.
• Ensures compliance with staffing plan for nursing education.
• Manages Nursing Education Specialists, Unit Educators, and other designated employees. Includes interviewing, hiring, scheduling, performance evaluation, discipline, and professional development oversight.
• Develops annual operating and capital budgets, monitors and analyzes performance and productivity and implements necessary corrective plans.
• Collaborates with other departments in budget preparation, determining capital priorities, monitoring and analyzing trends.
• Utilizes budget information in management decision-making.
• Is knowledgeable and remains current in standards of treatment. Integrates new practice standards with education and written standards.
• Maintains open and positive communication with senior leadership, staff, physicians, other hospital leaders and local nursing college leaders.
• Leads and facilitates shared governance committees and work groups.
• Remains current in legislative and regulatory changes, participating and providing leadership in creating changes to improve the health of the community.
• Knowledgeable and current in nursing standards of treatment. Integrates new practice standards with education and written standards.
• Mentors and coaches leadership and staff through change.
• Participates in disaster response as assigned.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, problem solving skills and implementation of performance improvement.
• Provides overall leadership annually in developing department goals consistent with the organization’s strategic plans.
• Improves the health of the community through education of individual patients and/or programs.
• Determines strategy to standardize clinical performance across the market based on Ana standards.
• Implements new care models utilizing digital technology.
• Participates in national professional related organizations to ensure current knowledge.
• Conducts interviews with prospective employees; works with Human Resources in hiring new personnel.

Requirements

• Possession of a current or compact state license as a registered nurse issued/defined by the State of Iowa.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required.
• Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC™) or Certification for Nurse Educators (CNE) certification required within 6 months in this role.
• BLS and ACLS certification required.
• Proof of completion of Iowa’s Mandatory reporter abuse training specific to population served with three (3) months of hire.
• 1 Year Nursing Education Leadership Experience Required.
• 3 years nursing education experience required.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Possession of a current or compact state license as a registered nurse issued/defined by the State of Iowa.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required.
• Nursing Professional Development Certification (NPD-BC™) or Certification for Nurse Educators (CNE) certification required within 6 months in this role.
• BLS and ACLS certification required.
• Proof of completion of Iowa’s Mandatory reporter abuse training specific to population served with three (3) months of hire.
• 1 Year Nursing Education Leadership Experience Required.
• 3 years nursing education experience required.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Advanced analytical skills.
• Well organized.
• Maintain a highly professional manner and appearance.
• Strong interpersonal, consultative and relationship building skills.
• Ability to effectively influence results, garner support and tactfully manage complex relationships within and across the organization.
• Extremely high level of diplomacy and tact.
• Ability to read the subtle nuances of situation and react/plan accordingly.
• Comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

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