Clinical Education Specialist, Transformative Therapeutics

Job Overview

The Clinical Education Specialist (CES) utilizes nursing arts and sciences, child development, education, psychosocial, and cultural theories to facilitate the delivery of comprehensive clinical care to patients and families at the unit level. They work independently, and in partnership with unit leadership and colleagues across departments. The CES provides expertise in education, educational design, adult learning theory, and scholarly inquiry. Major role responsibilities include competency management, education, role development, orientation/onboarding, research/EBP/QI, and collaborative partnerships.

The Transformative Therapeutics team at Children's Hospital Colorado is advancing the future of pediatric care through innovative therapies, including gene therapy, cell therapy, personalized medicines, and other complex treatment modalities. Working in close partnership with the Clinical Translational Research Center (CTRC) and research teams across the organization, the department supports the safe implementation of clinical trials, novel therapeutics, and emerging treatment protocols.

The team also supports therapeutic apheresis services, a specialized procedure used to collect, modify, or remove blood components as part of treatment and research initiatives. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, education, quality oversight, and process standardization, the department helps ensure the safe, effective delivery of cutting‑edge therapies while advancing a culture of excellence in pediatric research and precision medicine.
The Clinical Education Specialist is in support of Clinical Research and Transformative Therapeutics (gene therapy, cell therapy and medications with complex administration).

• Department
• Transformative Therapeutics and Clinical Translational Research
• Position Status
  Full‑time, eligible for benefits
• Shift
  Days, Monday-Friday
• Salary Information
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
  Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $ to $
• Eligible Incentives
  Relocation benefits for eligible candidates moving 100 miles or greater

• Designs, develops, coordinates, facilitates, and evaluates onboarding and orientation programs for licensed and unlicensed team members to ensure they are prepared to practice safely and independently.
• Demonstrates leadership through team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships across the system.
• Assess learning needs, incorporating adult learning principles, engaging learning strategies, and utilizing scholarly inquiry to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate clinical education programs and outcomes to optimize patient care delivery and for team member's ongoing clinical professional development.
• Ensures assessment, documentation, and record keeping of team members' clinical competency.
• Mentors, develops, and evaluates preceptors to enhance learning experiences for all new hires.
• Serves as a nurse planner, designer, and educator for unit clinical education programs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of effective communication principles and promotes communication among disciplines.
• Facilitates learning outcomes through innovative partnerships.
• Demonstrates skillful guidance and teaching of team members to advance the care of patients, families, and the profession of nursing.
• Supports quality improvement standards; regulatory standards; patient safety standards; error prevention tools, methodologies, technologies and resources.

• Degrees
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
  • Master's of Science in Nursing (MSN) or equivalent with post-master's certification in education
• Experience
  • Five (5) years of clinical pediatric experience
• Licenses &…