NURSE ONBOARDING SPECIALIST (FT DAYS)

Riverside Healthcare; Kankakee (IL); On-site; USD 61,950 - 82,173; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off programs

Health and welfare benefits

Defined contribution retirement plans

Educational Assistance Program

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Kankakee, IL, is seeking an Onboarding Specialist to facilitate new nurse orientations and support retention efforts. The role includes developing training content, coaching new nurses, and collaborating with nursing leaders. Candidates must hold a BSN and have five years of acute care experience. This opportunity offers comprehensive benefits, including paid time off and educational assistance, within a full-time framework.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of nursing experience in an acute care setting is required.
• Current IL RN license is mandatory.
• Experience in nursing professional development or education is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate new graduate nurse orientations from job acceptance to training.
• Round on new nurses and preceptors to ensure socialization and resilience.
• Consult and identify learning needs for new nurses.

Skills

Effective communication

Emotional intelligence

Coaching and collaboration

Performance gap identification

Education

BSN

MSN preferred

NPD-BC certification preferred

Job description

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This range is provided by Riverside Healthcare. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$44.97/hr - $59.65/hr

Overview

Reporting directly to the Nurse Manager of Nursing Professional Development, the Onboarding Specialist is a highly visible, trusted, collaborative professional nurse responsible for facilitating new graduate nurse orientations from the point of job acceptance to orientation training. The Specialist follows up on orientation, conducting regular, documented rounding, and coordinating focus groups/retention celebrations and onboarding satisfaction surveys. A skilled communicator with strong emotional intelligence, the Specialist is skillful in building and managing relationships in addition to being an effective communicator who drives a focus on accountability and OneRiverside. The Specialist facilitates identification of learning needs and serves as an educational resource and performance consultant for Riverside Medical Center. The Specialist also coordinates and provides mentor/preceptor training and plans and conducts preceptor recognition programs to assure retention of top talent and assuring linkage of all work efforts and outcomes to support Magnet redesignation and ANCC Practice Transition Accreditation Program (PTAP) global standards.

Responsibilities

• Assists with planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of Transition to Practice program including content development, instruction, and coordination with program faculty, modifying and sustaining the program based upon program outcomes.
• Rounds on new nurses, preceptors, and leaders in hospital setting to assure socialization, resiliency, and ongoing progression of patient-centered care, efficiency, prioritization, patient safety and clinical skills.
• Identifies, coaches and collaborates with preceptors, leaders and new nurses on performance gaps to support ongoing retention, engagement and development.
• Coordinates and provides efficient nursing student and nursing college faculty orientation, serving on nursing program advisory groups.
• Harvests feedback from nurse managers and directors to support ongoing development with RN recruitment pipeline staff/programs, supporting Riverside recruitment processes to transition into Riverside positions.
• Coordinates and provides mentor/preceptor training, including overseeing mentor/preceptor recognition programs.
• Facilitates onboarding process that becomes a recruitment and retention driver via publicizing and marketing results to appropriate target audience. Assures structures and processes are in place aligned to ANCC PTAP accreditation.
• In coordination with the ODL team and hospital-based nurse educators and leaders, coordinates standardized onboarding processes from time of job acceptance, tapering support over the first two years of nursing practice.
• Coordinates and assures reporting of onboarding survey data, providing career coaching and connection to professional development internal and external resources to support retention of Riverside nurses who meet and exceed performance expectations.
• Consults to identify learning needs and serves as a facilitator/educational resource on soft skills and clinical skills for new nurses.
• Serves as a resource for ongoing continuing education, ensuring regulatory/accrediting compliance of competency and training records for areas.
• Using contemporary instructional design and presentation techniques and evidence-based resources, determines training needs, and develops methods and training to address needs.

Qualifications

• BSN required
• Current IL RN license
• Minimum of five years of nursing experience in acute care setting with med/surg/critical care preferred
• MSN preferred with nursing professional development/education experience preferred
• Current BLS and ACLS American Heart Association CPR certified instructor preferred
• NPD-BC certification preferred

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

Pay Range

USD $44.97 - USD $59.65 //Hr

Employment type

Full-time

Seniority level

Associate