Educator Sterile Processing Time, Rotating

Overview

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system,
UChicago Medicine
, as a Central Sterile Processing Educator at our Hyde Park Location
. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

• Collaborates with the Assistant Director, Sterile Processing, to design, develop, implement, and evaluate a variety of educational offerings to improve overall care and organizational outcomes.
• Elevates the standard of sterile processing practice by developing, coaching and mentoring staff to become expert professionals and leaders.
• Collects data regarding employee learning needs, at least annually, through observation, interviews, focus groups and instrumentation.
• Utilizes standardized and develops customized assessment tools and testing methodologies to measure staff knowledge and skill in core nursing practices and within specialty areas.
• Interprets accrediting and regulatory agencies’ guidelines to identify education and training needs.
• Designs education that supports the medical center’s strategic imperatives, policies, guidelines, and other internal demands.
• Leads the development of tactics to achieve the organization’s strategic vision for education and recommends deployment of educational resources to enable achievement of goals.
• Incorporates current research and health care trends into learning needs assessments and the identification of learning needs.
• Plans and designs a variety of educational activities based on needs assessment and develops a comprehensive annual educational calendar with key staff.
• Designs core competencies across the continuum of expertise and practice, focusing on facilitation of learning, collaboration, systems thinking, and diversity.
• Designs specialty-based orientations for sterile processing and clinic staffing, as well as in services and continuing education programs for staff.
• Participates in centralized and unit-based preceptor education and development initiatives.
• Prepares educational objectives, lesson plans, handouts, self-learning modules, instructional manuals, and tests for programs.
• Creates programs that employ a variety of learning methods and technology and implements education activities.
• Fosters a learning-focused culture and uses adult learning techniques to conduct diverse learning events based on needs assessment findings.
• Creates a learning environment that encourages staff to maximize professional practice and coordinates necessary support services for education offerings.
• Maintains an accurate system for recording activities and programs and serves as faculty in organization-wide education events as appropriate.
• Evaluates education and training activities using objective performance criteria and recommends updates to education plans; uses appropriate tools to assess changes in learners’ knowledge, skills, and practice.
• Revises programs based on evaluative data; provides internal and external consultation on education and development matters.
• Rounds on units/employees to audit processes for compliance and collaborates with nursing leadership in quality, research and scholarly activities, including grant proposals where appropriate.
• Develops knowledge- and skill-based measures to collect performance data and integrates findings into quality projects; recommends and leads educationally focused improvement efforts to enhance key clinical/operational processes and outcomes.
• Publishes and/or presents information in area of expertise.

• High School Diploma or equivalent required;
  Associates Degree preferred
• Certification from IAHCSMM (CRCST) or CBSPD (CSPDT) required within 18 months of hire
• Minimum requirement of five years in Sterile Processing; certified a minimum of three years
• Previous experience in an educator role preferred
• Knowledge and application of adult learning principles
• Demonstrates complex decision-making skills and problem solving ability

• Job Type/FTE:
  Full-time 1.00
  
  FTE
• Shift: Rotating
• Unit/Department:
  Sterile Processing
• CBA Code:
  Non Union

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