Training Center Coordinator

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Oversees the planning, coordination and delivery of all American Heart Association (AHA) training programs for WVUH employees, UHA employees, system hospitals, and community members.

• Act as an AHA Training Center Coordinator, serving as the primary resource and point of contact for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of classes, instructors, and participants.
• Responsible for successful AHA site audit.
• Supervise daily work and assign teaching schedules of AHA instructors.
• Accountable to ensure manikin integrity, infection prevention, and the availability of resource materials.
• Develop a department budget for AHA classes to include classroom, manikin, material, instructor, and participant needs.
• Update AHA guidelines into all AHA courses.
• Communicate and hold update sessions on course material, policies, etc. to all instructors.
• Independently make decisions regarding AHA training center coordination policies and practices.
• Schedule and communicate available classes with WVU Medicine System leaders and employees.
• Maintain AHA resources on the CEOD website.
• Oversee production of AHA certification cards for participants and instructors.
• Nominate individuals for Regional BLS, ACLS, and PALS Faculty appointments using judgment of instructors' teaching capabilities, quality of courses conducted, and commitment to instructing.
• Responsible for maintaining instructor records, LMS entry for WVU Medicine instructors and participants, and when needed provide notification to HR of successful class completion.
• Monitor certification and coordinate certification records and details, course enrollments, procedures, and documentation, manage deadlines and schedules for all programming.
• Collaborate with other training centers in the WVU Medicine System for classes when needed to ensure equipment, supplies, and other resources are available.
• Establish satellite training center sites at WVU Medicine affiliate locations.
• Coach, mentor, and monitor all sites under the WVU training center.
• Serve as regional faculty and an active member of the Regional ECC Committee, and serve as chair if appointed.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related Health/Education field and three (3) years of recent teaching experience, OR Associate Degree in a related Health Education field and five (5) years of recent teaching experience.
• Attain BLS Instructor status within one month of employment.
• Attain ACLS Instructor status within three months of employment.
• Attain PALS Instructor status within three months of employment.

• Required licensure/certification per discipline if applicable (e.g., LPN, Respiratory Therapy, EMT).
• Regional faculty experience.
• One (1) year of experience in a healthcare setting in nursing, allied health, or EMS field, including pre-hospital.

• Must be physically capable of correctly demonstrating mannequin skills on all mannequins (infant, child, adult) on the ground/floor/table.
• Must have the ability to lift up to 50 pounds of equipment when working/moving equipment for setup, storage, and cleaning.

• Classroom Teaching/Learning Environment.
• May require travel.

• Ability to utilize MS Office programs.
• Ability to use online, web-based technology to submit course‑related training documents and for regular communication.
• Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal skills.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40 hours.

Shift: Exempt.

Location:

Wheeling Hospital, 1 Medical Park Drive, Wheeling, West Virginia. Cost Center: 90 WH Nursing Education and Training.

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