Trainer & Instructor II

DHRM • Staunton, VA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Trainer and Instructor II coordinates the Implementation of New Employee Orientation (NEO) programming, ensuring topics and material covered are compliant with mandatory DBHDS and COV training requirements. They maintain the master NEO Binder with the most up-to-date materials and ensure all NEOs are scheduled and stakeholders notified at least one week prior to the start. This role coordinates with presenters to ensure adequate training, substitutes as necessary, and collects/maintains records for attendance and understanding. Additionally, they are responsible for the full implementation of CCCA's Therapeutic Options, UKERU, DEFUSE, and First Aid/CPR training programs. This includes maintaining a minimum of 5 active trainers for each program, ensuring curriculums are current and compliant, scheduling and facilitating classes, and properly maintaining training records. The Trainer and Instructor serves as a primary trainer for Therapeutic Options & First Aid/CPR programs, ensuring equal opportunity and responsibility among trainers, and also acts as a back-up trainer. They develop curriculum for identified required training topics, possibly with committee assistance, and implement agency-specific training. This role identifies, recruits, and trains additional trainers as necessary, coordinates, publicizes, and facilitates training schedules, and ensures records of attendance and proficiency are maintained and communicated. Finally, they facilitate 1:1 or small group staff professional development training as needed.

Requirements

• Must possess excellent planning, organization, and coordinating skills.
• Must possess superior presentation and teaching skills.
• Must have demonstrated analytical and creative abilities in order to design and implement training programs and educational activities that provide necessary skills to improve employee performance and job satisfaction.
• Must be able to communicate and interact with people at all levels of the organization as well as other stakeholders.
• Must possess excellent computer skills, esp. PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Excel, and willingness and ability to learn new applications as necessary.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in mental health or related field with emphasis on education and staff development preferred.
• Must be able to achieve CPR/First Aid, Therapeutic Options, DEFUSE Trainer Certifications, as well as other necessary certifications to train on specific required policies, procedures, programs, software, etc.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates Implementation of New Employee Orientation (NEO) programming.
• Ensures topics and material covered in NEO are compliant with mandatory DBHDS and COV training requirements.
• Maintains master NEO Binder with most up-to-date materials.
• Ensures all NEOs are scheduled and all stakeholders notified at least one week prior to the start of NEO.
• Coordinates with presenters to ensure adequate and appropriate training provided.
• Substitutes as necessary for regular presenters or ensure adequate backup training is available.
• Collects and maintains records as necessary to document attendance and understanding of material.
• Responsible for full implementation of CCCA's Therapeutic Options, UKERU, DEFUSE, and First Aid/CPR training programs.
• Maintains a minimum of 5 active trainers for each program.
• Ensures curriculums are current and compliant.
• Schedules and facilitates classes.
• Ensures training records are properly maintained.
• Serves as a primary trainer for Therapeutic Options & First Aid/CPR programs.
• Ensures that all trainers have approximately equal opportunity and responsibility for leading trainings.
• Serves as back-up trainer for rest of training staff.
• Develops curriculum for identified required training topics, possibly with the assistance of a committee.
• Responsible for implement and provide agency specific training.
• Identify/recruit/train additional trainers as necessary.
• Coordinates, publicizes, and facilitates adequate training schedules to ensure appropriate distribution of training information.
• Ensures records of attendance and proficiency are appropriately maintained and communicated.
• Facilitates 1:1 or small group staff professional development training as needed.

Benefits

• DBHDS facilities are no longer required to ensure that all staff members are vaccinated against COVID-19. However, facilities encourage and educate staff on the benefits, and continue to offer COVID-19 vaccination programs to staff, residents/clients.
• Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and/or interview process per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed