Professional Development "Maternal Child Health" Edu. Consultant
COMPANY: For more than 60 years, this company has been dedicated to
improving the health of their members and the communities
we serve, by creating safe, healthy environments and
providing quality health care and coverage for all.
LOCATION: Pasadena, California
DESCRIPTION: Provides program planning/management, consultative and
strategic planning services to senior executives and nursing
executives in areas of nursing professional education,
development, competencies and continuous learning in
order to assess/evaluate, maintain, improve and develop
professional nursing practices and align nursing education,
professional development and professional practice with
strategic organizational goals/objectives; manages the over-
all design, implementation and evaluation/improvement of
assigned professional nursing education/development
programs in the California Region; dissemination of evidence
base practice and manages best practice models that
improve nursing and organizational performance.
Essential Functions:
: Develops short, intermediate and long-range
education/development plans to support identified current
and future needs for nursing resources and professional
practice, as well as organizational/strategic goals and
objectives.
: Manages and develops the strategic planning of
professional nursing education, development and learning
programs, standards, goal/objectives related to enhancing
professional practice and meeting organizational/business
needs.
: Plans, develops, implements and evaluates collaborative
and innovative education/continuous learning strategies and
programs for Regional nursing personnel and aligns
education/professional development and continuous
learning.
: Plans, develops, maintains, evaluates/improves existing
professional education/ development/learning services and
programs throughout the California Region.
: Assesses priority education/professional development
needs identified by senior nursing and other executives, as
well as external agencies, partners and authorities.
: Provides linkage between identified educational needs and
current and planned programs offered by internal and
external sources/partners.
: Provides consultative services and acts as an expert
resource to external and internal professional
partner/stakeholders in the areas of professional nursing
education/ development program design, development,
improvement and evaluation.
: Develops and maintains external contractual partnerships
with private and public sector organizations, academic
institutions/organizations and learning vendors in order to
establish and maintain a flexible and competent nursing
work force that can be utilized across a variety of roles,
functions and patient-care settings.
: Coordinates curricula related to specialty programs and
cross-training.
: Establishes and evaluates education/development and
advanced degree/learning programs.
: Communicates to Regional leadership the goals, objectives
and planned outcomes of professional nursing education
program development.
: Represents Regional education/development programs to
internal and external groups, governmental
agencies/authorities and schools/universities.
QUALIFICATIONS: : Minimum two (2) years of experience in the areas of
complex curriculum design, development and evaluation,
including the demonstrated ability to independently utilize
skills/knowledge in statistical analysis, outcome
measurement/educational program evaluation and
qualitative and quantitative research.
: Minimum three (3) years of experience in nursing
research, process improvement, clinical management or
other closely related healthcare field.
: Demonstrated ability to utilize communication,
consultation, facilitation, influencing, negotiation and
interpersonal skills on an expert level with variety of
management and other personnel, including external
partners/groups.
: Ability to utilize multiple software programs, video
conferencing, inter-active media and interactive distance
learning/website and network materials/resources.
: Travel required approximately 15% of the time.
: Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership
environment.
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
: Maternal Child Health clinical experience.
EDUCATION: Master's degree in nursing, education or healthcare related
field required.
License/Certifications
Current California RN License required.