Professional Development Leader

About the role

The Professional Development Leader will create, lead, and engage in initiatives to advance professional learning and meet organizational or system-level goals. They will build strategic, collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to advance Houston Methodist mission and goals.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree, one from an accredited School of Nursing; Master’s degree in education field preferred
• Experience: Six years clinical nursing experience with two years in a primary nursing professional development role
• Licenses and Certifications: Required - RN - Registered Nurse - Texas State Licensure - Texas Board of Nursing_PSV Compact Licensure – Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days (if establishing Texas residency); BLS - Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) - American Heart Association; NPD-BC - Nursing Professional Development (ANCC) - American Nurses Credentialing Center_PSV; ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support or Instructor (AHA) and PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support or Instructor (AHA)

Essential Functions

• People Essential Functions: Creates, leads, and/or engages in initiatives to advance professional learning and meet organizational or system-level goals. Provides critical insight into program design and evaluation for role transitions, clinical ladder advancement, professional certification, and excellence recognition programs. Builds strategic, collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to advance Houston Methodist mission and goals. Leads through influence as an advocate, role model, mentor, and change agent. Communicates effectively with learners and collaborative partners in both the learning and practice environments.
• Service Essential Functions: Leads entity and system groups in the educational process through completion of an assessment, identification of practice gaps (including lack of knowledge, skill, or inability to translate knowledge into practice), identification of desired outcomes, planning, facilitation of learning, and an evaluation. Designs programs utilizing innovative strategies to facilitate learning, including delivery methods beyond the classroom setting (e.g., virtual), and incorporates continuing education credit, as applicable. Leads strategic action planning through analyzing needs assessments, learning activity evaluations and system or entity metrics. Considers system and hospital priorities and forecasts needs for future program design and professional development initiatives. Designs and builds curriculum in programs which may include orientation, practice transition, and role development.
• Quality/Safety Essential Functions: Leads and facilitates quality improvement initiatives, as identified through assessment data and knowledge of key quality indicators. Collaborate with stakeholders to synthesize, analyze, and prioritize patient quality and/or patient satisfaction opportunities and create an action plan utilizing performance improvement methods/tools. Engages in the dissemination of outcomes. Serves as a consultant to enhance the quality and safety of practice. Develops and leads initial and/or ongoing competency assessments, utilizing a variety of validation methods, and guided by applicable policies, procedures, standards and evidence. Ensures activity/program integrity by incorporating evidence-based practices, change management principles and current educational theory in designing programs/services. Synthesizes data to guide decision-making in nursing professional development practice and demonstrate activity impact. Serves as an NPD content expert.
• Finance Essential Functions: Develops and manages programs, within the approved budget and analyzes cost effectiveness and return on investment. Appropriately allocates and utilizes resources. Role models and drives time and resources efficiently. Implements innovative solutions to achieve organizational objectives that lead to a positive fiscal impact.
• Growth/Innovation Essential Functions: Leads a spirit of inquiry through staff guidance in inquiry project development, execution, and dissemination (abstracts, posters, and presentations). Develops proposals for new programs, projects, inquiry, innovation, teaching strategies and/or learning methodologies to enhance learning and positively impact patient care. Completes and updates My Development plan (MDP) on an ongoing basis. Shares knowledge with other NPD practitioners.

Supplemental Requirements

• Work Attire: Uniform: No; Scrubs: Yes; Business professional: Yes; Other (department approved): No
• On Call*: No
• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area: Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area: No