Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Shriners Children's; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Shriners Children’s in Philadelphia seeks an NPD Specialist to develop, implement, and evaluate education and professional development programs focused on perioperative services.

You will serve as a perioperative subject matter expert and support Nursing Professional Development initiatives, including orientation, competency management, continuing education, and staff development.

Qualifications

• BSN degree required
• Current CPR certification
• Current BLS certification
• 2 years of peri-operative experience

Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.
• Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.
• Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience.
• Identification and development of strategies to facilitate lifelong learning, role transition, and succession planning.
• Promotes and integrates NPD specialty to improve practice and may conduct or participate in research, EBP, QI.

Skills

CPR Certification

BLS Certification

Education

BSN

Job description

Company Overview

Shriners Children’s is an organization that respects, supports, and values each other. Named as the 2025 best mid-sized employer by Forbes, we are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience define us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

With 20+ hospitals, outpatient clinics, ambulatory care centers and outreach locations across the globe, we provide excellent care to children up to age 18 regardless of their family's ability to pay or insurance status.

Job Description

Job Summary

The NPD Specialist is responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating education and professional development programs, with a primary focus on perioperative services. This role serves as a perioperative subject matter expert while also supporting organization-wide Nursing Professional Development initiatives, including orientation, competency management, continuing education, and staff development.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates, manages, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates clinical onboarding/orientation programs for nursing & other healthcare personnel.
• Assesses, measures, documents and supports competency, and addresses deficiencies in staff members’ competence.
• Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing educational activities to address practice gaps for identified target audience developed to achieve specific outcomes to identified gaps in knowledge, skills, or practice.
• Identification and development of strategies to facilitate a continuous process of maturation through lifelong learning that allows for role transition, role integration, skill acquisition and succession planning
• Promotes and integrates the science of NPD specialty to continuously improve practice. In addition, promotes research, EBP, QI in patient care settings. NPD Specialist may conduct, encourage, participate in research, EBP, QI, including dissemination of findings.

Required Qualifications

• BSN- bachelor’s in nursing
• Current CPR
• Current BLS
• 2 years of Peri-Op experience

Compensation is determined based on years of relevant experience and departmental equity.