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Our primary, multispecialty, and urgent care providers serve millions of patients in traditional practices, patients' homes and virtually through VillageMD and our operating companies Village Medical, Village Medical at Home, Summit Health, CityMD, and Starling Physicians.

When you join our team, you become part of a compassionate community of people who work hard every day to make health care better for all. We are innovating value-based care and leveraging integrated applications, population insights and staffing expertise to ensure all patients have access to high-quality, connected care services that provide better outcomes at a reduced total cost of care.

Job Description

Job Description

The Certified Diabetes Educator provides health care under physician supervision. Provides direct diabetes patient education and assists in developing diabetes patient education activities. Assists in the assessment of the program and its goals. Participates in all quality assurance activities; collects, and compiles data for the Diabetes Education Program as well as Medical Home and ACO initiatives. Participates in staff development activities and acts as a liaison with all nursing areas interacting with the program. Complies with WESTMED departmental policies and procedures and maintains good patient and interdisciplinary working relationships

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides individualized diabetes self-management education/ training to individuals and groups according to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional performance for Certified Diabetes Educator

• Provides direct diabetes patient education and assists in developing diabetes patient education activities.
• Responsible for utilizing professional skills and experience to educate patients with Type 2 Diabetes and healthcare professionals on the correct administration of an injectable prescription medicines.
• Acts as a liasion to WMG PCP’s Hospitalists, Snifists and and other medical staff regarding newly diagnosed diabetic patients as well as chronic/complex patients to provide/coordinate the medically necessary and appropriate care for the patient.
• Develops patient care plans in collaboration with patient/caregiver/provider
• Able to lead and effectively manage individual and group education sessions
• Be responsible for any ADA or NCQA Recognized Program process.
• Collects DSME/T program participant assessment data, in a collaborative and ongoing manner.
• Collaboratively develops educational goals, learning objectives and a plan for educational content and teaching methods with DSME/T program participants.
• Provides educational interventions that utilize primarily interactive, collaborative, skill-based training methods and maximizes the use of interactive training methods.
• Evaluates effectiveness of educational services provided by measuring attainment of learning objectives.
• Conducts a follow-up assessment upon completion of DSME/T program services, using outcome measures.
• Documents assessment data, educational plan, educational services provided and evaluation results in each participant’s educational records.
• Utilizes a team approach to provide services and collaborates and communicates with team members when needed.
• Identifies when a program participant’s needs are outside the scope of the instructor’s practice and expertise, plus arranges for additional services to meet needs.
• Acts as a liaison to provide ongoing support and education to the family/caregiver system to lessen enhance self -management and lessen disease anxiety and decrease negative outcomes
• Solves complex problems and/ or conducts moderately complex analyses impacting disease management, Medical Home and ACO diabetes composite and associated Metrics
• Develops care plans for complex cases in collaboration with patient/caregiver/provider.
• Works with minimal guidance, seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks.
• Translates concepts into practice.
• Provides expl