Hospice Educator

CommonSpirit Health; Redding (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercy Medical Center Redding seeks an Educator to plan, coordinate, and deliver essential healthcare education and training programs for diverse clinical staff. You will schedule and conduct trainings, provide direct instruction, and ensure effective learning experiences across Mercy's teams.

The role requires strong organizational and presentation skills and a deep understanding of healthcare education, with the ability to engage and train staff and professionals within Mercy Home Health &

Qualifications

• 2 years experience in Home Health or Hospice.
• 1 year experience with Healthcare information system.
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire.
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire.
• Auto Insurance, upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Plans, coordinates and delivers essential healthcare educational and training programs.
• Schedules and conducts diverse healthcare training programs.
• Provides coordination and instruction for educational initiatives for healthcare professionals and staff.
• Develops and evaluates orientation and training activities, including competency testing.
• Acts as clinical expert for home care-specific automated medical record system and conducts staff trainings.
• participates in after-hours Administrative and clinical oversight as part of the leadership team.

Skills

Home Health experience

Hospice experience

Healthcare information systems

RN licensure CA

Education

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Master of Nursing (MSN) or related field

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As an Educator, you will be a vital contributor to the planning, coordination, and delivery of essential healthcare-related educational and training programs.

Every day, you will actively assist in scheduling and conducting diverse healthcare training programs. You will also provide direct coordination and/or instruction in various educational initiatives, ensuring effective learning experiences for all participants.

To be successful in this role, you will combine strong organizational and presentation skills with a deep understanding of healthcare education, a passion for teaching, and the ability to effectively engage and train diverse groups of healthcare professionals and staff.

• Ensures that all actions taken and methods used to produce the results outlined in this job description incorporate and promote the Mission and Philosophy of Mercy Home Health & Hospice
• Actively participates in the recruitment and hiring, process for all new clinical staff. Acts as a resource for these activities for non-clinical staff.
• Supervises all new clinical staff during their orientation period. This responsibility includes making home evaluation visits, documentation oversight, conducting status meetings, scheduling and completing the three-month evaluation.
• Communicates with appropriate clinical supervisors regarding staff progress and any human resource or performance counseling issues occurring during the orientation period.
• Develops, implements and continually evaluates all orientation and training activities/programs for all staff; including required competency testing and mandatory inservice education.
• Functions as the clinical expert for development, education, training and trouble-shooting of the home care-specific automated medical record system. May be on-call. Plans and conducts staff trainings
• Administrator-on-Call Participation: Serves on a rotational basis as part of the agency leadership team to provide after-hours administrative and clinical oversight. Manages urgent escalations, coordinates staffing solutions, and serves as the primary point of contact for emergent patient care issues or operational crises outside of standard business hours

Job Requirements

Required

• 2 years experience in Home Health or Hospice
• 1 year experience with Health Care information system
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire and
• Auto Insurance, upon hire

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Science BSN MPT,
• Masters Of Nursing in Nursing or a related field, upon hire and
• Supervisory Hospice experience., upon hire and
• Healthcare information systems, in a homehealth setting., upon hire

Where You'll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.

One Community. One Mission. One California