Nursing Professional Development Leader

Nursing Professional Development Leader – System Float Pool Position Summary

• Lead education, onboarding, and professional development initiatives for System Float Pool nursing staff.
• Support competency validation, clinical excellence, and evidence-based practice across multiple Methodist hospitals.
• Partner with nursing leaders to identify learning needs and develop staff education programs.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and ongoing support to nursing team members.
• Facilitate training, orientation, and professional development activities across various clinical settings.
• Travel throughout the Methodist health system to support float pool staff and organizational goals.
• Promote high-quality patient care, employee engagement, and continuous learning.

Hybrid – Main location will be Greenbriar.

At Houston Methodist, the Nursing Professional Development Leader I (PDL I) position is an entry‑level nursing professional development position primarily practicing in the hospital central department, or learning environment, with emphasis on core hospital‑based programs impacting a variety of nursing and interdisciplinary learners. This position is progressively building knowledge and skill in the facilitation of learning through active participation in Nursing Professional Development (NPD) responsibilities and collaborating on teams.

The PDL I position influences the professional practice of nursing and other healthcare learners, to create a positive impact on the patients and families served, as well as overall population health. This NPD practitioner, guided by the organization’s mission and vision, facilitates ongoing learning, change, and role competence and growth through engaging with learners in the following areas of responsibility including inquiry, competency management, collaborative partnerships, orientation/onboarding, role development, and education.

In each area of responsibility, the PDL I position may assume the role of learning facilitator, change agent, mentor, champion of inquiry, advocate for NPD specialty, and a partner for practice transitions.

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited school of Nursing
  • Master’s degree in education field preferred
• Experience
  • Four years nursing clinical experience
  • Nursing professional development experience preferred
• Licenses and Certifications Required
  • RN – Registered Nurse – Texas State Licensure – Texas Board of Nursing, PSV Compact Licensure – Must obtain permanent Texas license within 60 days (if establishing Texas residency)
  • BLS – Basic Life Support or Instructor (AHA) – American Heart Association
  • Magnet ANCC‑recognized Certification (HM) within 6 months
• Licenses and Certifications Preferred
  • ACLS – Advanced Cardiac Life Support or Instructor (AHA)
  • PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support or Instructor (AHA)

• Promotes a positive workplace environment which is conducive to ongoing professional learning, to advance individual, departmental, organization, or system‑level goals. Strives to support role transitions, clinical ladder advancement, professional certification, and excellence recognition programs.
• Engages in collaborative partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, including through Shared Governance participation, to drive professional development initiatives and achieve optimal results.
• Serves as a clinical resource utilizing effective communication skills. Utilizes peer‑to‑peer accountability towards improvement of department score for employee engagement.

• Participates in the delivery of core, entity‑wide learning activities, and may collaborate with other practitioners or interdisciplinary team members. Applies the education process through completion of an assessment, identification of practice gaps (including lack of knowledge, skill, or inability to translate knowledge into practice), identification of desired outcomes, planning, facilitation of learning, and evaluation.
• Reports professional development initiative outcome measures to relevant stakeholders and engages in action planning, as necessary, to meet learner needs, and entity‑based goals.
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