Clinical Practice Educator

Company Description

Join the UM Rehab Team!

At UM Rehab, we offer an unparalleled opportunity to work in a setting that seamlessly blends elements of acute care, outpatient therapy, and skilled nursing, creating a fast-paced yet deeply rewarding environment. Our dedicated Brain Injury Unit specializes in treating highly complex cases, including coma-emerging patients and individuals with behavioral challenges, ensuring they receive the specialized care needed for recovery. Our multidisciplinary team is equipped with the expertise and training to manage cases that many other facilities are unable to accommodate.

Why Join UM Rehab?

Diverse & Challenging Cases: Gain invaluable experience working with complex diagnoses that enhance your clinical skills and deepen your understanding of brain health and injury recovery.

Collaborative Environment: Work closely with a multidisciplinary team that emphasizes teamwork, flexibility, and open communication, ensuring the best outcomes for patients.

Supportive Team Culture: Be part of a hardworking, compassionate team that feels like family and is dedicated to making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives.

Impactful & Rewarding Work: While the job can be emotionally demanding, the reward of seeing patients progress—and even hearing success stories long after discharge—makes every challenge worthwhile.

At UM Rehab, we’re looking for professionals who are empathetic, adaptable, and passionate about patient care. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level in an environment where your skills and dedication truly make a difference, we invite you to join our team!

Job Description

General Summary

• Supports excellence in clinical practice and patient care quality through the implementation and evaluation of educational programs that support positive staff and patient outcomes. Services include, but are not limited to: consultation, program design, organizational assessment and development, educational programming, materials development, and practice consultation.
• Designs systems and provides services which promote quality clinical practice of staff from multiple disciplines, which are customer oriented, and support collaboration across organizational boundaries. Serves as a resource to managers and staff; works in collaboration with Professional Development Coordinator. Contributes to the ongoing development of the organization through leadership, expertise, professional support, and collaboration with staff, affiliates, and outside agencies and organizations
• Must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age, culture, ethnicity, and specific individual diagnostic needs of the patients served in his/her department. He/she must be able to assess and interpret data about the patient’s status in order to identify each patient’s specific needs and provide the care needed by the patient group (pediatric, adolescents and/or geriatric patient group, culture and diagnostic specific).
• Consistently expresses and demonstrates compassion and courtesy for patients. Extends courtesy and support to patient's families/visitors.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

• AHA BLS Instructor
• Develop, plan, implement, & evaluate hospital core orientation, nursing orientation, in-service education.
• Use, facilitate use of educational equipment and resources.
• Incorporation of effective and creative educational strategies and methodology as an educator.
• Incorporate population specific principles into programming as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain an effective means of communicating pertinent information to interdisciplinary team members, managers, external customers, and professional colleagues.

Respect for individuals, Customer Service, Teamwork and Collaboration:

• Anticipates and responds to customer needs. Identifies issues and takes responsibility for follow up.
• Facilitates cooperative and collaborative relationships among peers and organizational leaders to ensure effective and appropriate educational programming in compliance with standards.
• Collaborates at least annually with department leaders and nursing clinical practice committee to assess the learning needs for creating/revising/updating the nursing core orientation.
• Assumes the lead role in review and revision of nu