Director, Clinical Education and Professional Development

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Organization: Nursing Educ & Prf Development Job Summary: Vanderbilt Health – Executive Search Team is conducting a national search for a Director, Clinical Education and Professional Development. The Director will support the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and our Staffing Collaborative. Reporting to the Associate Nurse Executive with dotted lines to the Nursing leaders of the Psychiatric Hospital and the Staffing Collaborative. As a member of the leadership team, the Director of Clinical Education and Professional Development provides oversight for the development and execution of training programs that promote and create clinical practice standards. Develops, implements, evaluates, and revises programs of orientation, in-service-training, and continuing education. Takes a lead role in educational initiatives to ensure quality patient care and customer satisfaction. Acts as a resource and liaison to the VUMC community by serving on hospital wide committees or task forces. Represents Vanderbilt within the professional community. Provides leadership to ensure the delivery of quality and safe patient-centered care using key organizational strategies and evidence based tactics. . Key Responsibilities: Managing Vision & Purpose Collaborates with central clinical education leaders on enterprise wide initiatives. Collaborates with nursing leaders and senior clinical and administrative staff to establish and execute programs that align with the organization’s mission, strategic plan, budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies. Identifies, allocates, and proposes resources to deliver projects/initiatives aligned with organizational priorities. Motivating & Influencing Recognizes and rewards desired performance. Supports retention of staff using techniques consistent with Elevate framework. Active Listening and Communicating Clearly (verbal & written) Role models Credo behaviors. Establishes and maintains an environment of trust, fairness, consistency and confidentiality with team members and with other internal and external customers consistent with VUMC Credo. Listens and seeks clarification through rounding. Uses findings to develop solutions to identified issues within scope of accountability. Utilizes active methods to solicit input from staff and faculty. Establishes systems to share knowledge across the health system. Communicates organizational information to ensure staff/leaders are informed. Represents needs and interests of direct reports to all levels of the leadership structure. Communicates effectively orally and in writing. Accountability Leverages the performance development process of goal setting, ongoing assessment, coaching and performance evaluation to achieve goals. Evaluates direct reports. Coordinates learning needs assessments for individuals/groups of staff. Provides leaders with staff performance data in relation to established internal and external benchmarks. Partners with all members of the leadership team to execute on patient safety and quality outcome goals. Establishes mutually agreed upon corrective action plans with assigned responsibilities to achieve desired outcomes. Acts as a consultant and liaison with area staff, educators, and leadership to promote agreed upon Patient Care Standards. Interprets policies and procedures to clinical staff. Collaborates with leadership team to address issues related to quality, compliance, competency, and education. Utilizes strategies such as rounding for outcomes. Provides feedback to leadership team related to staff progress and role transition. Assists in establishing standards for staffing and effectiveness with leadership team using internal and external standards. Clinical Quality Management and Service Orientation Implements programs and monitors activities that promote a safe, therapeutic, customer-friendly environment. Collaborates with management team to monitor satisfaction outcomes and develop action plans to address issues within scope of responsibility. Acts as clinical leader and provides education for staff on clinical standards. Plans, implements, evaluates, and revises training for staff in accordance with the JC, OSHA standards, and area/hospital policies. Collaborates to develop initial and ongoing staff competencies. Reviews staff compliance summaries. Ensures that care is safe, effective, efficient, timely, equitable, patient centered, and evidence based. Utilizes current literature, best practices, and an interdisciplinary approach to develop Patient Care Standards. Stays current in area of professional nursing development practice. Uses appropriate processes and models to monitor and proactively manage risk. Coaches staff to prioritize and collaborate with the healthcare team. Collaborates with the rest of the leadership team to determine areas for improvement in clinical practice and develop improvement plans. Active participant in clinical practice policy development/revision. Makes recommendations for education or other appropriate actions. Takes a leadership role in determining how new/changing technology is used in clinical practi