Manager, Clinical Education PA

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Summary:

• Reporting directly to, and working closely with the Program Director, PA is responsible for maintaining clinical sites, student placements and contractual agreements and assisting the Manager, Clinical Relations with securing new clinical affiliations for the Physician Assistant program.
• Provides support for clinical teaching faculty; serves as a facilitator for faculty assigned; and enables an environment which fosters creativity, responsiveness, and self-responsibility.
• Supports faculty and students assigned to clinical sites, makes phone or on site visits, mediates conflicts, records attendance, and supports clinical affiliations to ensure that the affiliations are sufficient in number to meet PA program requirements.
• Remains current in applicable program field, participates in faculty meetings, instructional seminars, and in-service training sessions.
• Participates in campus activities such as faculty meetings, student functions, graduation exercises, open houses, new student orientations, and advisory board meetings.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Is responsible for developing and maintaining student clinical placements with identified facilities. Requests clinical placements, online and manually, and confirms.
• Advises the Program Director, PA of the status of recruitment efforts to obtain new clinical affiliations, efforts to maintain relationships with current affiliations.
• Plans and coordinates clinical preceptors and students assigned to clinical facilities.
• Collects evaluation feedbacks from students, staff and Clinical sites. Ensures preceptors provide periodic feedback of clinical performance immediately after observation event and/or of overall student performance at midterm and end of trimester.
• Orients students to clinical packets, health and safety requirements.
• Supports Program Director, PA with strategic planning for clinical relationships and placements.
• Works with Registrar for student's clinical rotation course registration.
• Confirms with clinical affiliate staff the expectations for the student placement and established PA Program objectives.
• Provides preceptor feedback from clinical rotations to PA program faculty.
• Coordinates and assists with orientation to new faculty regarding clinical facilities.
• Strives to develop strategic, enduring relationships with facilities that lead to outstanding placement opportunities to West Coast University graduates.
• Provides clinical preceptors with orientation related to the program.
• Assists with the on-site evaluation of preceptors and submits completed evaluation to Program Director, PA on time and with required level of quality.
• Coordinates a plan for PA Program Faculty best observe, instruct, and evaluate student's learning and clinical practical skills and faculty performance which includes a direct observation clinical assessment of skills in applicable setting for related area of instruction.
• Ascertains projections placements for upcoming terms. Proactively leads development of sites to meet current and future placement needs.
• Identifies cored and effective rotation specialties.
• Identifies clinical sites and creates schedules which support the student clinical requirements.
• Creates reports for facilities.
• Strengthens relationships with facilities.
• Changes clinical placements (i.e. failing classes, last minute decisions, etc.) during the term.
• Establishes and maintains communication lines between the clinical facilities, and staff as well as ACC where both institutions utilize sites.
• Supports students completing clinical rotations, including phone or onsite visits.
• Resolves conflicts / problems in the clinical setting with preceptors.
• Collects and maintains appropriate documentation related to clinical education, such as health forms, CPR certification, student evaluations and site evaluations.
• Completes agency preapproval required forms regulatory needs.
• Works toward a consistent approach towards the management and development of clinical relationship vis-�- vis other West Coast University campuses.
• Maintains accurate clinical site information database, including contact information and specific contractual agreement termination and expiration dates, and initiates renewal process timely.
• Works with clinical affiliate staff to clarify policies and procedures specific to facility. Apprises clinical affiliate staff of student objectives in each clinical area.
• Attends Advisory meetings to network and derive solutions to mutual concerns.
• Participates in professional development and organizations in order to maintain