Clinical Educator - Acute Care

The Clinical Educator is accountable for planning, promoting, coordinating, implementing and evaluating education activities. This position is accountable along with area leadership teams for promoting a continuous learning environment that supports ongoing staff development for assigned clinical areas. This position practices within the scope of the Nursing Practice act, and in accordance with Valley Children's Hospital policies.

Position Details

Status: Part Time Benefitted, Exempt					FTE/Hours per pay period: 0.5 FTE (40 hrs)
Shift: Day					Shift Length: 8
Pay Range: 53.00 - 78.00					Location: 9300 Valley Children's Pl, Madera, CA 93636 USA

About Us:

The Valley Children’s Clinical Education Department is responsible for the network-wide provision of clinical orientation, clinical education and staff development programs, services and resources that advance the strategic goals of Valley Children’s Healthcare and meet the needs of clinical staff at all locations. The team conducts educational planning that is consistent with multiple regulatory standards for the various patient care settings, and is based on information from performance improvement activities, on-going needs assessment, and a variety of health care advances. Services available to organizational departments include instruction, facilitation, curriculum development, and consultation. The department operates with the understanding that continuing education enhances participants’ knowledge, skills and attitudes so that they may continually improve the quality of service they provide to patients and families.

Valley Children’s Healthcare - one of the largest pediatric healthcare networks in the nation - provides Central California’s only high-quality, comprehensive care exclusively for children, from before birth to young adulthood. With more than 670 physicians and 3,500 staff, Valley Children’s delivers high-quality, comprehensive care to more than 1.3 million children in our service area. Our network offers highly specialized medical and surgical services to care for children with conditions ranging from common to the highly complex at our 358-bed stand-alone children’s hospital that includes 28 regional NICU beds. Our family-centered, pediatric services extend from a leading pediatric cancer and blood disorders center home on the West Coast, and a pediatric heart center known for its expertise and pioneering treatments, to a Regional Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the highest level referral center between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. We participate in community initiatives, we support community efforts, we get involved where we can do the most good.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 3 years full time or equivalent related experience
• Ability to demonstrate the skills necessary to plan, implement and evaluate education programs using appropriate education principles
• Bilingual skills desirable

EDUCATION/LICENSES/CERTIFICATIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Active California Registered Nurse licensure (RN)
• HeartCode Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 30 days of hire or transfer into position
• Pediatric Emergency Assess, Resuscitation & Stabilization (PEARS) within 12 months of hire or transfer into position
• National certification in area of specialty preferred

Have Questions?

Call Recruitment Services at 559-353-7071 or email us at recruiting@valleychildrens.org

Disclaimer: Final compensation will be dependent upon skills and experience.