Community Partnerships Coord

Community Partnerships Coordinator

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state's first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer's care center.

Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary:

Develops collaborative relationships with area colleges of nursing and other health science programs. Coordinates and ensures the effective management of health science and colleges of nursing students' clinical experiences. Recruits and retains qualified and effective RN instructors and Clinical Instructors. Facilitates the design of meaningful clinical experiences appropriate to the educational level of the student, including appropriate placements with qualified instructors and preceptors working with LMC leaders.

Actively participates in the ongoing growth and development of partnered College of Nursing programs and other local nursing colleges through participation in Advisory Board and other meeting forums. Coordinates community patient educational programs ensuring that qualified instructors and appropriate educational content is continuously evaluated and revised as changes in clinical content, patient or provider feedback indicates.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum Education:
  
  Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  5 Years of Experience in Nursing (At Least 2 Years in a Leadership Position/Capacity)
• Required Certifications/Licensure:
  Currently Licensed as a Registered Nurse by the South Carolina State Board of Nursing;
  Current certification in Healthcare Provider CPR.
• Required Training:
  None.

Essential Functions:

• Ensures that classes and clinical experiences offered are of high quality content delivered by qualified and proficient Clinical instructors.
• Ensures adherence of all instructors and students to LMC and partnered of Nursing Programs' patient care philosophy, standards of care and practice, policies, procedures and protocols.
• Collaborates with partnered Colleges' faculty to design clinical experiences with objectives that are aligned with the lecture and are appropriate to the preparation of the student.
• In collaboration with colleges of nursing leaders and LMC instructors, ensures that clinical students understand and demonstrate compliance with LMC service excellence, policies and procedures, and safety requirements.
• Maintains job descriptions appropriate for the nursing and health science student, RN and Clinical instructor.
• Demonstrates knowledge of program content of all classes and clinical experiences offered.
• Assesses the performance of Clinical instructors and collaboratively develops action plans and monitors progress as indicated.
• Ensures development of community class content based on current literature and best practices.
• Sets and manages goals, objectives and educational activities that are congruent with the partnered College Nursing Programs and LMC's mission, vision and values.
• Maintains and respects program participant privacy.
• Interacts with Clinical instructors and the partnered Colleges of Nursing faculty in a collegial and respectful manner and ensure the continued growth and development of LMC's partnerships with area health science schools and colleges of nursing.
• Respects patients' "Bill of Rights" by ensuring programs and clinical experiences as well as student preparation is designed to meet the expectations described in the Patient's Bill of Rights.
• Attends minimum of 20 hours of appropriate educational programs for own professional development.
• Provides performance feedback for each Clinical instructor on an ongoing basis and in conjunction with annual performance appraisal.
• Serves as role model for students and instructors.
• Serves as resource for nursing students, instructors, and other health care personnel in the acquisition of knowledge and skills related to their practice.
• Plans for and contributes to the growth and development of nursing students, instructors and professional colleagues.

The Community Partnership Coordinator serves as a liaison between program participants, Community Education Liaison, Clinical Instructors, RN instructors, leaders of colleges of nursing and other health sciences…