Simulation and Skills Education Specialist

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Boston, MA

1d•$150,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Reporting to the Operations Manager of the Simulation and Skills Center, the Simulation and Skills Education Specialist works closely with faculty and learners from all disciplines and training levels to provide professional medical education experiences; run courses for professionals to meet certification requirements; and support education research grant programs utilizing simulation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
License Registered Nurse required., or Registration Physician Assistant License required.
5-8 years related work experience required in Clinical Practice, including 3-5 years of experience using simulation in healthcare education, including team training experience.
Advanced technical computer skills as required for technical support specific to functional area and related systems.
Competencies: Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 - over.
Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed. Intermittent breaks during the work day do not compromise the work. Work is varied every day, and the employee needs to be adaptable to respond to these changes and use independent judgment and manage priorities. No substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions
NHCW: No patient contact.- Health Care Worker Status may vary by department
Sensory Requirements: Close work (paperwork, visual examination), Color vision/perception, Visual monotony, Visual clarity <3 feet, Conversation, Monitoring Equipment, Telephone.
Physical Requirements: Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary, but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus. This job requires frequent walking, standing, bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, Power Grasping using both hands, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 10 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 25 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to 10 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 25 lbs.There may be occasional Pushing items weighing up to 50 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to 75 lbs.Rarely there may be Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 75 lbs, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Pushing items weighing up to or more than 100 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance.

Responsibilities

Provides education and training in crisis management, procedural and technical skills, to physicians, nurses, medical and nursing students, and other healthcare workers through the use of simulation resources including full-body simulators, partial task trainers, computer-based and virtual reality simulation tools.
Assists faculty with the development and implementation of educational programs sponsored by the Center: contributes to curriculum development, debriefing, and assessment of learners and programs.
Provides orientation of faculty and learners to principles of simulation training.
Provides instruction in, and technical support of simulation resources used in medical education.
Monitors equipment safety and functionality.
Responsible for data collection and record keeping used in evaluating training effectiveness.
Responsible for appropriate facility and equipment deployment.