Education Manager

The Education Manager serves as a professional leader, mentor, and subject matter expert responsible for strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of organizational education and staff development programs. This role promotes a culture of lifelong learning, professional excellence, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement throughout Horizon Health. The Education Manager provides leadership and oversight to the education team, ensuring educators consistently represent the organization in a professional, collaborative, and positive manner.

The Education Manager fosters interdisciplinary relationships, supports a culture of professionalism and continuous learning, and promotes educational opportunities that enhance employee growth, leadership development, patient safety, regulatory readiness, and organizational success. The position partners with leadership to align educational initiatives with Horizon Health ’s mission, vision, values, and strategic goals.

• Conducts educational needs assessment and develops an annual education plan
• Establishes metrics and evaluates educational outcomes to ensure programs effectively support organizational, regulatory, quality, and workforce development goals
• Incorporates principles of adult learning in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs
• Participates in the department’s annual budget planning
• Participates in or assigns an educator to new employee orientation
• Develops/coordinates education plans related to initial and ongoing competency validation of clinical staff
• Develops/coordinates core education for professional development of clinical staff
• Provides direct leadership, performance management, mentoring, coaching, and professional development for education staff, ensuring educational services are delivered consistently, professionally, and in alignment with organizational goals and standards
• Develops evidence-based educational materials
• Evaluates the effectiveness of educational programming
• Teaches content as needed within clinical expertise to facilitate orientation, staff development and/or safe practice
• Serves as an educational consultant to task forces, committees, and projects relating to policy, procedure and program development
• Responds to identified educational needs of Horizon Health to promote quality patient care and safety
• Facilitates the adult learning process, creating a climate which supports learning across the organization
• Identifies and recruits internal and external resources for educational activities
• Participates on committees, task forces and projects on an as needed basis
• Facilitates team building and leadership development
• Participates in review of activities or processes
• Responds to changes in clinical practice and develops programs to support those changes
• Ensures that educational programs are congruent with organizational missions, values and goals
• Maintains required educational and/or clinical competencies
• Establishes clear expectations for educator professionalism, customer service, conduct, and interactions with staff, providers, students, and external partners.
• Leads committees, work groups and/or projects related to implementation of educational activities
• Coordinates with the Standards and Compliance Manager - the creation, education and implementation of organizational policies relating to standards and regulation compliance
• Through education assists with keeping staff informed of regulatory/standard changes that affect critical care practices within the organization
• Participates in the development and implementation of improvement initiatives that directly affect the quality of care delivered within the organization
• Demonstrates leadership behaviors…