Clinical Educator Home Health Care

*** THIS POSITION IS ELIGIBLE FOR A $10,000 SIGN ON BONUS!!!***

(Must have two years of home health experience to qualify. Terms and Conditions apply.)

Provides clinical expertise and serves as a role model and consultant to Home Health in the area of clinical skills;
Functions as a collaborative partner to foster the delivery of high-quality patient care by promoting staff professional growth and supporting the development of staff. This position provides regulatory and clinical training activities including OASIS training and establishes an on-boarding infrastructure.

• Develop, implement, deliver or coordinate, and evaluate educational programs to assure that staff demonstrates excellent clinical performance, professional development, and knowledge about home health care to assure compliance with all legal, regulatory and agency-specific requirements.
• Teaches educational content as needed or assigned to facilitate orientation, staff development and safe practice.
• Collaborate with service line managers to coordinate orientation, staff development and mentoring of clinical staff.
• Responsible to ensure a smooth transition of new associates throughout the orientation period by coordinating and administering the clinical orientation track.
• Educates clinical associates regarding EMR documentation during the orientation period and ongoing.
• Onsite visits as to assess knowledge and compliance with the documentation process.
• Direct and coordinate mandatory educational activities in collaboration with Quality Safety and Compliance.
• Collaborates with VP of Clinical services to ensure educational needs of staff are met
• Sets an example by modeling the Core Values and Behavior Standards and incorporating them into education modules and teachings
• Serve on other internal committees as assigned to provide expertise and coordination of education efforts.
• Mentor and assist clinical staff with individual learning needs
• Complete joint visits with clinical staff to increase technical skill set and assess regulatory compliance
• Communicates with appropriate clinical managers regarding staff progress and any human resource or performance counseling issues.
• Evaluates educational programs through outcome results, via surveys or direct feedback to validate and/or modify the objectives of the Education Department.
• Deliver training programs through various methods and approaches such as in-person presentations and in-services, on-line training via, webinars, and demonstrations.
• Develop educational programs, materials and resources for staff (e.g. performs literature searches or other methods of inquiry) to provide the most current data for evidence-based practice
• Provides OASIS- training
• Conducts annual educational needs assessment through surveys, review of risk data, and with attention to changes in Joint Commission and regulatory requirements.
• Convene an Education Committee and coordinate the development and implementation of an annual Education Plan in collaboration with representatives from Clinical services.
• Ensures that all training programs and educational offerings will reflect compliance with state and federal regulations, Joint Commission Accreditation guidelines and accepted clinical practice.
• Collaborates with Information Management for training of clinical staff on the electronic record system and enhancements to improve OASIS, clinical monitoring and clinical notes documentation.
• Demonstrates behavior that reflects the understanding and support of the organizational values of accomplishment, affiliation, caring and commitment to quality as well as core values of service excellence, accountability, collaboration and integrity.
• Plans, prepares and maintains evidence based materials for use in educational…