Professional Development Educator - Full time (RN required)
About the role
As one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems, recognized by Premier and Modern Healthcare, Valley Health is a place where excellence, compassion, and purpose come together. This distinction reflects our commitment to exceptional patient care, clinical quality, and the caregivers who make it all possible.
The Professional Development Educator is accountable for implementing standardized education, onboarding, competency, and workforce development programs that promote practice readiness, safe clinical care, and consistent outcomes across assigned departments, service lines, and care settings. This role supports the development and maintenance of professional competence, fosters lifelong learning, and facilitates professional growth for clinical and interprofessional caregivers throughout their professional journey. The Professional Development Educator operationalizes system-wide education, competency, and workforce development strategies, ensuring consistent implementation, effective adoption, and efficient use of organizational resources across assigned departments, service lines, and care settings. This role partners with leaders, subject matter experts, and interprofessional teams to deliver learning experiences, support transition to practice, facilitate competency development, and provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development throughout the caregiver career journey. Through effective education delivery and competency validation, the Professional Development Educator contributes to improved time-to-productivity, workforce readiness, staff engagement, and retention, while reducing variability in onboarding processes and supporting efficient utilization of staff