Assistant Director of Academic Clinical Partnerships

Concordia University Irvine; Irvine (CA); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 96.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Concordia University Irvine in Irvine, CA, seeks the Assistant Director of Academic Clinical Partnerships to lead the development and management of relationships with clinical sites. You will identify opportunities, coordinate contracts, and ensure clinical placements align with nursing program objectives.

Reporting to the Director of Nursing, you will collaborate with faculty, placement coordinators, and healthcare partners to expand opportunities for students and graduates, while maintaining

Qualifikationen

• Experience in coordinating clinical placements and affiliations.
• Ability to draft clinical agency affiliations and manage contracts.
• Strong communication with hospital admins, nurse educators and community leaders.

Aufgaben

• Identify and initiate contact with potential clinical sites for Med/Surg, OB, Peds, Mental Health, Geriatrics and Community.
• Draft and formalize new clinical agency affiliation agreements with healthcare facilities.
• Maintain contracts and relationships with clinical agencies; track evaluations and outcomes.

Kenntnisse

RN license CA

Healthcare coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Jobbeschreibung

The Assistant Director of Academic Clinical Partnerships in the Department of Nursing provides leadership in implementing and managing relationships with both current and future clinical partners. The Assistant Director is responsible for building clinical partnerships, identifying and generating new clinical agency opportunities, and managing the clinical partnerships to ensure that student learning and course objectives are being met. The Assistant Director of Academic Clinical Partnerships reports directly to the Director of Nursing and collaborates with the Assistant Director of Nursing, the agency clinical placement liaison, the clinical placement coordinator, faculty, and students.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities Include

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to accomplish each of the below duties satisfactorily:

• Identify and initiate contact with potential clinical sites for all areas: Med/Surg, OB, Peds, Mental Health, Geriatrics, and Community.
• Interact with potential and contracted clinical agencies
• Draft and formalize new clinical agency affiliation agreements in consultation with healthcare facility administration, legal teams, and nursing administration.
• Evaluate insurance and liability issues related to clinical agencies and provides appropriate documentation.
• Develop positive relationships with new clinical agencies and help to maintain current clinical agencies. This includes building and maintaining professional working relationships with hospital administrators, clinical directors, nurse educators as well as community setting leaders.
• Collaborate with Clinical Placement Coordinator to maintain current list of approved clinical facilities and to maintain all appropriate contracts with clinical agencies.
• Collaborate with Clinical Placement Coordinator, Clinical Placement Liaison, and Director of Nursing for clinical needs.
• Lead the development of current clinical affiliations to meet the current and future needs of clinical placement/preceptorship for the nursing programs.
• Create and maintain appropriate clinical opportunities for all areas: Med/Surg, OB, Peds, Mental Health, Geriatrics, Preceptionships and Community.
• Participate in networking activities to build relations with healthcare facilities and related professional associations such as orientation activities, community professional meetings, advisory meetings and/or recruitment/job fairs.
• Provide current reports to Director of Nursing on all potential and current clinical agencies.
• Administer and collect evaluation feedback from clinical agencies. Track and present summary of clinical evaluation data. Also track and report student/faculty clinical evaluation (effectiveness of clinical experience, clinical objectives being met, etc.)
• Monitor performance objectives of student placements to determine appropriateness of clinical placements/preceptorship in collaboration with the Clinical Coordinator.
• Maintain knowledge of program objectives, enrollment process, requirements and content offered within the nursing programs.
• Assist in faculty recruiting efforts while in the clinical community.
• Strive to increase brand recognition of Concordia University Irvine by educating employers and community organizations.
• Strive to develop strategic enduring relationships with clinical agencies that lead to job opportunities for Concordia University Irvine graduates.

Pay Range: $80,000-96,000/yr

Experience

Preferred

• Active RN license in CA preferred but not required.
• At least one year of healthcare experience or equivalent background in clinical coordination, health program operations, health administration, or healthcare stakeholder engagement.

Education

Preferred

• Bachelors or better

Equal Opportunity Employer

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