Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health? CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.

Exemption Status:

Exempt

Hiring Range:

$91,312.00 - $164,361.60

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday

Scheduled Hours:

Monday-Friday days 8am-4pm

Shift:

1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

32

Cost Center:

24050 - 6630 Prof Practice Service Excel

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

This position is responsible and accountable for planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the staff development and educational activities for assigned area(s). Ensures the quality of patient care delivered on assigned unit(s) through the assessment, coaching, and development of the nursing staff. Participates in the development and implementation of educational programs for the entire Nursing Department.

I. Major Responsibilities:

1.    Creates an atmosphere conducive for learning.
2.    Conducts an educational needs assessment for area(s) of responsibility on a regular basis.
3.    Designs, organizes, implements, and evaluates orientation, in-service, and continuing education programs for staff in assigned areas.
4.    Develops expertise of nursing staff with patients and patient populations managed on assigned unit(s).
5.    Develops curricula, instructional materials, tests, and evaluation tools, evaluates commercially produced materials, and maintains current educational supplies and equipment.  Makes changes to the curricula based on feedback and current clinical and/or educational evidence.  
6.    Promotes evidence-based educational methods and technologies that support development of nursing expertise.
7.    Ensures that staff meets required competencies, both annual and unit based, for area of practice.
8.    Serves as a role model and resource for less experienced nurse educators.   
9.    Develops precepting skills of staff nurses in assigned area(s) and oversees charge nurse orientation for nurses new to that role. 
10.    Serve as a consultant to / facilitator for nursing governance councils, nurse leaders, and other departments’ personnel in the planning of formal and informal learning activities within the hospital as requested.
11.    Coordinates student clinical experiences with faculty from schools of nursing and other disciplines that utilize our clinical site for education.
12.    Participates in educational strategic planning efforts for the Department of Nursing.
13.    Presents papers, posters or workshops at scholarly meetings.  
14.    Establishes and maintains effective communication within areas of responsibility and with other departments.  
15.    Assists staff nurses in applying educational principles to patient education sessions.  
16.    Maintains required data, records, and statistics for administrative, regulatory, and evaluation purposes for educational programs delivered.
17.    Keeps current on best practice standards of nursing practice and education.  Identifies policies, standards, and practices not in compliance with current standards and communicates needed revisions through the nursing leadership and governance structures.
18.    Supports/participates in current research activities that affect area(s) of current responsibility or specialty area of interest/expertise.
19.    Assists nurse managers and other nursing staff with projects and activities to support the nursing area(s) of responsibility.
20.    Serves as a consultant to nursing staff in the evaluation of process improvement activities.<