RN Clinical Education Specialist Oncology

About the role

The RN Clinical Education Specialist trains new Banner Health employees by supporting on-boarding with Banner's Education team, focusing on oncology, hospice, and palliative care.

Responsibilities

• Supports and develops staff within the facility/entity, including preceptors, new graduates, and experienced clinicians.
• Serves as an education resource for clinical policy and procedures, standards of care, and external agency requirements.
• Facilitates assessment and identification of ongoing learning needs for staff development programs.
• Designs and delivers programs that support the organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategic goals.
• Participates in facility/entity, regional, and system development to ensure the standardization and consistent application of on-boarding and educational programs.
• Utilizes performance measures and workforce needs to drive education plans and learning strategies on a facility/entity level.
• Develops and implements strategic workforce learning and development services to support the achievement of workforce goals, quality initiatives, and clinical practice.
• Assures seamless orientation of new hires and/or transferring clinical staff by overseeing the orientation process from classroom to clinical area.
• Assists with ensuring clinical staff have access to requisite clinical and educational programs.
• Assesses, plans, develops, and delivers clinical curriculum, educational materials, and developmental programs and services on a department, facility/entity, regional, or system level.
• Incorporate evidence-based practice into all training and educational programs.
• Delivers learning opportunities that includes related materials for clinical and technical education while utilizing adult learning principles to deliver standardized content and materials.
• Facilitates learning utilizing multiple modalities appropriate to the content and the learner by adopting innovation and embracing technology to deliver on learning needs and accomplish learning goals.
• If/when functioning as a Nurse Planner: Responsible for all aspects of the development, implementation, evaluation, record keeping, and quality of continuing education activities reviewed.
• Evaluates learning effectiveness through perceptual feedback tools, knowledge-based testing, and skills assessment.
• Evaluates and modifies educational opportunities, as needed.
• Coordinates and communicates feedback from trainees to ensure training needs are met, including establishing an effective classroom environment.
• Tracks and follows up on the results of evaluations and provides feedback to leadership and suggests opportunities to enhance training/learning or knowledge based programs.
• Establishes an effective classroom environment.
• Tracks and follows up on the results of evaluations.
• Provides feedback to leadership and suggests opportunities to enhance training/learning or knowledge based programs and expected behavior change.
• Tracks and/or maintains education enrollment, attendance, and completion.
• Participates in unit, facility/entity, or system committees and teams in an educational capacity.
• Collaborates to support facility/entity or system teams to implement the educational components of new practice initiatives and evidence-based practice.
• May provide feedback on annual budget for delivery of clinical educational programs.

Requirements

• Knowledge as normally obtained through the completion of a Master’s degree in Nursing or related field required.
• If/when functioning as a Nurse Planner: BSN or higher in nursing is required and a current, unencumbered nursing license.
• Current RN licensure in state of practice.
• BLS certification required.
• Three to five years work experience in specialty area or related field, or similar experience as an education coordinator/instructor in healthcare environment required.
• Working knowledge of ancillary and support department responsibilities.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and computer technology skills, strong organization, and communication skills, and the ability to take initiative, solve problems, and improve processes required.

Qualifications

• Professional certification in specialty area preferred.
• Two or more years in a position with primary responsibility for design and delivery of learning programs for adult learners is preferred.

Skills

• Ability to take initiative, solve problems, and improve processes.
• Strong organization and communication skills.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation, and computer technology skills.
• Working knowledge of ancillary and support department responsibilities.
• Professional certification in specialty area preferred.
• Two or more years in a position with primary responsibility for design and delivery of learning programs for adult learners is preferred.

Benefits

This role is eligible for benefits.

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Hybrid schedule, with travel required.