Director Of Education

The Director of Education leads organization-wide clinical education, assigned grant programs, disaster preparedness, and trauma program coordination for the Critical Access Hospital and its affiliated services in Parker, Arizona. The Director develops education and competency programs that support safe patient care, workforce development, regulatory readiness, and rural healthcare needs. The role works with executive leadership, clinical departments, Quality, Human Resources, Finance, Facilities, IT, Supply Chain, EMS, and community partners to coordinate these programs.

When designated by the hospital, the Director serves as the Trauma Program Manager or Coordinator
1. Develop and implement an annual organization-wide education plan informed by clinical outcomes, competency gaps, incident trends, staff feedback, service changes, and regulatory requirements.
2. Coordinate clinical orientation, ongoing education, skills validation, and competency assessment with nursing and other clinical leaders. Ensure qualified subject matter experts validate discipline-specific competencies within their scope.
3. Coordinate required organization-wide education with Human Resources, Employee Health, Infection Prevention, Quality, Compliance, and department leaders. Establish audiences and deadlines, track completion, and escalate unresolved gaps to accountable leaders.
4. Design and deliver classroom, online, simulation, and hands-on learning suited to adult learners, evidence-based practice, health literacy, and rural hospital services.
5. Provide oversight and direction to educators and instructors, including work prioritization, program delivery review, coaching, performance feedback, and support for professional development.
6. Administer the learning management system, including course assignments, education records, reporting, and follow-up on overdue requirements.
7. Coordinate clinical certification courses and renewal tracking for assigned services, including life support programs, using qualified instructors.
8. Support preceptors, new graduates, clinical students, and academic partnerships. Coordinate placements and training agreements through authorized hospital processes.
9. Evaluate learning effectiveness through demonstrated competency, learner feedback, practice improvement, and patient safety outcomes; revise programs when results identify a gap.
10. Coordinate the hospital’s all-hazards disaster preparedness program in accordance with applicable Critical Access Hospital requirements.
11. Coordinate facility and community risk assessments and maintain the emergency operations plan, supporting procedures, communication plan, and training and exercise program with responsible department leaders.
12. Ensure plans address evacuation, shelter-in-place, surge capacity, patient tracking, continuity of operations, infectious disease events, utility interruptions, and resource needs appropriate to hospital services.
13. Coordinate initial and ongoing role-based emergency training for staff, contracted personnel, and volunteers. Maintain training records and documentation of demonstrated knowledge.
14. Plan and document required emergency exercises, facilitate after-action reviews, assign improvement actions, and verify completion. Maintain an exercise schedule and document applicable qualifying-event exemptions.
15. Coordinate with local, tribal, regional, and state emergency management partners; public health agencies; EMS; healthcare coalitions; and receiving facilities.
16. Support Hospital Incident Command System readiness and serve in an assigned incident command role during activation.
17. Coordinate emergency readiness documentation with Facilities, IT, Supply Chain, clinical leaders, and…