Nursing Professional Development Specialist

Shriners Children’s Hospital; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Shriners Hospitals for Children in the United States seeks a Nursing Professional Development Specialist to design, implement, and evaluate educational programs that advance nursing competency and patient care.

The role includes coordinating onboarding for nursing and other healthcare staff, assessing competency, and creating continuing education activities aligned with practice gaps and lifelong learning. Join a mission-driven team dedicated to pediatric care and research.

Qualifications

• BSN required with active licensure in nursing.
• Current CPR certification and BLS required.
• Educational program development experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, and evaluates onboarding programs for nursing and other staff.
• Assesses staff competency and addresses gaps in knowledge and practice.
• Creates continuing education activities to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Promotes lifelong learning and strategies for role transition and succession planning.
• Supports research, evidence-based practice, and quality improvement in patient care.

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. Please click here to learn more about our locations.

Job Summary

The Nursing Professional Development Specialist at Shriners Hospitals for Children designs, implements, and evaluates educational programs to support the professional growth and competency of nursing staff, ultimately enhancing patient care.

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 in Nursing
• Current CPR
• Current BLS

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

Every day, we provide innovative, compassionate care and conduct leading research that enhances the quality of life for children and their families.

We invite you to explore the many rewarding career paths at Shriners Children's, from clinical and non-clinical positions to education and research opportunities.

We’re always looking for driven, compassionate professionals to join our team as nurses, physical therapists, medical assistants, administrative staff and much more.

No matter where you're located, you'll find openings at our Shriners Children’s facilities across the U.S., in Canada and Mexico and at our corporate headquarters in Tampa, Florida.

Eligible Shriners Children’s employees receive comprehensive benefits packages, including medical, dental and vision insurance, tuition assistance, retirement matching and so much more!