Education Coord - TCHP/TCHPC

About Texas Children's Hospital

Founded in 1996, Texas Children’s Health Plan is the nation's first health maintenance organization (HMO) created just for children. We provide STAR/Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to pregnant women, teens, children and adults in Houston and surrounding areas. Currently, the Health Plan has more than 375,000 members who receive care from our network of more than 1,100 primary care physicians, 3,200 specialists, and 70 hospitals. Texas Children's Health Plan is also the largest combined STAR/CHIP Managed Care Organization in the Harris County service area.   To join our community of 14,000 dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities. You can also learn more about our amazing culture at infinitepassion.org.  At Texas Children’s Hospital, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values and mission for all of our patients and families that we serve. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment for all faculty, staff and learners throughout our organization. We believe that each member of our one amazing team provides enrichment that allows us to create a lasting legacy for future employees of this great organization.   Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Summary:

We are searching for an Educational Coordinator– someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you’ll develop and coordinate training while promoting overall educational efforts, standards, goals, and compliance. Lastly, you will coach and mentor practice staff.

 

Think you’ve got what it takes?

Responsibilities :

• Plans, designs, develops, markets, and implements learning interventions that facilitate the application of learning in the workplace
• Provides educational programs and ensures the program content is consistently relevant to target audiences' job duties
• Coordinates or facilitates coordination of the implementation of cost-effective learning interventions/modules
• Serves as a patient/family advocate and collaborates with other health care team members
• Ensures and participates in ongoing communication with other health care team members in order to enhance patient/member-centered care and facilitate operations
• Develops curriculums based on the learning needs of staff
• Conducts a performance effectiveness assessment to identify gaps between desired and actual performance
• Supports, facilitates, and implements interventions to close performance gaps according to pre-established timelines as measured by feedback from the leadership team
• Implements and coordinates staff orientation plan
• Collaborates with stakeholders and leaders across the system regarding the preceptor program 

Qualifications:

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including any booster dose(s) of the COVID-19 vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control when eligible, is required for all employees at Texas Children’s, unless approved for a medical or religious exemption

 

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of Texas Board of Nurse Examiners
• Basic Life Support Certification issued by the American Heart Association within two (2) months of entering the position and maintained thereafter
• Three (3) years of clinical nursing experience and/or Department of Rehabilitative Services (DARS) experience

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of strategic planning methodology, regulatory, and accrediting agency standards
• Knowledge of educational program design and training for impact methodology
• Knowledge of performance improvement methodology and facilitative leadership methodology
• Ability to lead and facilitate diverse groups to achieve pre-established outcomes in a reasonable timeframe
• Ability to design reliable and valid data collection tools that measure performance, proven ability to assess needs and design, develop, implement, and evaluate interdisciplinary training

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