Clinical Educator III

Global Medical Response•McClellan Park, CA

12d

About The Position

The Service Line Clinical Educator – Critical Care provides quality, outcome-based educational programs and practice support to promote initial and ongoing competency and continuous development of critical care caregivers. The position supports internal and external customers under the direct supervision of the Regional Director and in conjunction with Clinical Practices. The educator designs, teaches, and evaluates critical care training programs; serves as an internal training and organizational development consultant; and provides career development resources and plans. The role provides clinical guidance to caregivers, maintains current knowledge of standards of care and practice, and ensures compliance with those standards. It develops and evaluates education programs, identifies learning needs, supports local outreach and onboarding, and collaborates with clinical practices, quality leaders, operations, and GMR Learning. The educator also supports clinical quality and safety initiatives, certifications and education tracking, controlled-substance matters, simulation-based learning, and remedial training. The role must maintain the requirements and ability to perform essential functions as an air and/or ground critical care caregiver when assigned.

Requirements

Current RN licensure or EMT-P certification.
Specialty certification required by CAMTS, such as CCRN, CFRN, CEN, FP-C, or CCP-C.
Two years of flight experience.
At least five years of ED or ICU nursing experience, or ALS Paramedic experience.
Knowledge of prehospital EMS/air medical transport.
Working knowledge of cultural diversity.
Ability to collect pertinent information related to clinical care and potential educational needs of critical care providers.
Knowledge of adult learning principles.
Ability to assess educational needs and develop programs for adult learners.
Clinical educators assigned human patient simulators must be able to lift at least 75 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree preferred.
Previous teaching experience preferred.
Experience using simulated patient encounters designed to enable experiential learning.

Responsibilities

Act as a clinical resource to caregivers and maintain knowledge of current standards of care and practice, ensuring compliance.
Develop, organize, implement, and evaluate service-line education and programs to ensure critical care caregiver competencies.
Use multiple approaches and sources of information to identify and validate caregiver learning needs, and regularly conduct learning-needs assessments.
Use teaching methodologies appropriate to learners and desired outcomes.
Participate in departmental short-term planning related to education and practice support.
Work with operations and service-line leadership to support team integrity and provide clinical support.
Work with local leadership and customers to assist with outreach education.
Assist in developing area-specific orientation on local protocols and procedures for new employees.
Work with the Operations Manager and/or Program Director to promptly address local or certificate-specific clinical and service-delivery issues.
Participate with clinical practices and clinical quality leaders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of the clinical quality management program.
Support ongoing clinical quality improvement and assurance at the operation level.
Assist with auditing and managing crew certifications, education completion, and employee health requirements.
Serve as a resource on controlled-substance matters in conjunction with the National Director of Controlled Substance.
Support safety and compliance by completing and responding to Baldwin Clinical Reports in conjunction with the National Director of Patient Safety.
Integrate data and outcomes from quality and safety initiatives into education and practice support.
Collaborate with GMR Learning and regional clinical practices leadership to identify, implement, and revise educational activities in compliance with accrediting, regulating, and credentialing agencies.
Serve as a resource for outreach education offerings.
Coordinate and provide instruction for new-employee onboarding as directed.
Design, implement, and evaluate patient simulations with GMR Learning through the GMR Simulation program.
Assist in identifying staff for training-officer and preceptor development.
Collaborate with clinical practices and GMR Learning leaders to develop and facilitate remedial training.
Maintain requirements and the ability to perform essential functions of an air and/or ground critical care caregiver as assigned.
Act as a professional role model by being self-directed, maintaining expertise, and promoting the profession.
Perform other duties as assigned.