Clinical Nurse Educator (Santa Rosa)

ABOUT US :

Formerly Aurora Santa Rosa Hospital, SRBHH was opened in 2016 and is regarded as an integral part of the greater Santa Rosa and Northern California mental health system of care. Conveniently located in the North Bay, this hospital consists of 144 acute psychiatric inpatient beds.

Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital (SRBHH) is regarded as an integral part of the greater Santa Rosa and Northern California mental health system of care.

Conveniently located in the North Bay, SRBHH serves adolescents and adults. We treat both mental health and co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse conditions.

POSITION TITLE : Clinical Nurse Educator

PAY RANGE : $135,200-$170,690 Annually

REPORTS TO : Chief Nursing Officer or Designee

DESCRIPTION OF POSITION :

This position is responsible for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and documenting staff development activities of all employees.  This includes orientation, in-service training, annual competency requirements, and professional development activities. The Clinical Nurse Educator maintains knowledge of, participates in further training provided, and understands the potential risks regarding occupational health hazards (e.g. bloodborne pathogen exposures).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Develops and implements a personal plan for professional development.
• Schedules training sessions as needed for orientation of new employees, HWC certification, and other required staff training.
• Monitors staff completion of mandatory annual competencies, including CPR, HWC, safety review, and code of conduct.
• Collaborates with administration to assess staff development needs, plan and design training programs to meet identified needs, and evaluate the impact of programs offered.
• Fosters an environment that maximizes the value of human resources.
• Encourages people to realize their potential and provides opportunities to apply knowledge and skills.
• Creates and maintains an education file for each employee for monitoring and documenting training and development of each staff member.
• Facilitates communication between employees and administration to ensure that orientation and training requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Acts to minimize risk and ensure safety of patients and staff in the psychiatric setting.
• Promotes strict staff observance of confidentiality and patient rights.
• Understands and supports hospital nursing philosophy and the hospital mission.
• Guides, directs, motivates, and influences others
• Provides positive reinforcement and feedback for improvement.
• Models a positive attitude towards organization. Focuses the team on teamwork to achieve goals.
• Understands and is sensitive to the needs of others. Sets high performance expectations and develops others by appropriate delegation.
• Chooses courses of action using sound and logical judgment.
• Optimizes information from multiple sources.
• Considers multiple goals, perspectives, options, and outcomes when making a decision.
• Uses intuition and insight in decision making when appropriate.
• Creativity is the employment of originality, imagination, and inventiveness to generate new ideas, alternatives, or solutions.
• Develops new or improved methods, products, or services.
• Displays intellectual curiosity, and challenges conventional practices for the good of the organization.
• Stays current with the new techniques in the field

Requirements

Knowledge and Experience :

Skills and Abilities :

Physical Requirements :

While performing the duties of this job, this position is frequently required to do the following :

Benefits

(Supplemental Life, Term and Universal plans are also available)

(with additional buy-in opportunities)