Senior Training and Consultation Specialist

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Recruitment/Posting Title Senior Training and Consultation Specialist

Job Category Staff & Executive
- Education and Training

Department SHP
- Psychiatric Rehabilitati

New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS ) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives.

Rutgers School of Health Professions ( SHP ) is seeking a Senior Training and Consultation Specialist to work in the Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Counseling Professions, NJ Department of Human Services ( DHS ) DMHAS Contract.

As an integral part of the NJ DHS - DMHAS funded training and technical assistance projects, the Senior Training and Consultation Specialist will work alongside faculty members and project staff. They are responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating training and consultation activities related to their assigned project. They will contribute to the implementation of evidence based psychiatric rehabilitation services in both NJ’s community based mental health services and the state psychiatric hospitals.

This position is fully grant funded.

• Develops and delivers educational training programs for one or more of the NJ DHS grant-funded training and technical assistance projects (Community Support Services, Integrated Employment Institute and State Hospital Psychiatric Rehabilitation Initiative) by developing curricula for both in-person and web-based training programs using educational technology software and learning management systems (e.g., CANVAS ); delivering curricula through utilization of a variety of engagement techniques that are aimed at adult learners;
  
  coordinating with colleagues in the preparation and delivery of educational materials; researching relevant topic areas and interfacing with subject matter experts when needed; and ensuring that all educational materials are of the highest quality, free from typos and grammatical errors.
• Provides consultation and technical assistance to administrators, supervisors, clinicians and direct care staff by developing individualized consultation/technical assistance plans; providing on- and off-site consultation/technical assistance services; providing requested technical assistance and support to the funder and…