Staff Development Coordinator
Company: Fairhaven_Healthcare_Center
Location: Lowell
Posted on: January 23, 2023
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Job Description:
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SUMMARY
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The Director of Staff Development Coordinator -is responsible for
providing orientation, skills development and Inservice programs
for all personnel,
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The Director of Staff Development coordinates the general
orientation of all personnel and mandatory Inservice requirements,
maintains all employees health records, Education Files and
provides vaccines, TB tests/screens as needed; meets policy
requirements in the event of any exposure to bloodborne
pathogens.
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DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
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As the Director of Staff Development, you are delegated the
responsibility and accountability necessary for carrying out your
assigned duties.
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ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: - RESPONSIBILITIES AND STANDARDS
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Achieves Fairhaven's educational objectives
By
Understanding and interpreting laws and regulations which influence
the practice of medicine and nursing in long term care;
participating in defining and refining standards of nursing
practice; contributing to the development and revision of
philosophy, objectives, policies, procedures for the Department of
Nursing and Staff Development; analyze the effectiveness of
policies, procedures, and standard of practice, making
recommendations for revision as necessary.
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Communicates effectively within the organizational structure
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Fostering and maintaining good interpersonal relationships, intra-
and interdepartmentally; channeling pertinent information
concerning educational needs of staff and other educational
activities to the Director of Nurses or appropriate Department
Head; developing and distributing a monthly calendar for nursing
and other departments, listing all educational activities;
promoting effective exchange of information within the facility
intra- and interdepartmentally to advance and expand educational
activities for nursing and other departments; conferring with
Nursing Supervisors and Charge Nurses to discuss nursing care
problems and educational programs needed for staff members;
providing opportunities for exchange of ideas and questions during
orientation and continuing education programs for staff;
developing, maintaining and utilizing records, reports, and
evaluative data pertinent to staff development and nursing
education; maintaining open communication with the Administrator in
order to increase the effectiveness of the Department of Staff
Development.
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Plans and implements the general orientation program for
Fairhaven
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Developing the general orientation program and scheduling
participants; utilizing audiovisual equipment so that program
content is readily available outside of the scheduled time given;
collaborating with other disciplines in carrying out the program
for all staff; developing evaluative tools for analyzing and
revising the general orientation as needed.
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Plans and implements the specific orientation program for all
nursing personnel
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Determining the educative needs of orienting nursing personnel;
preparing new nursing staff members to adjust to Fairhaven, through
the orientation program; reviewing educational background and work
history of each nursing orientee with the Director of Nurses;
developing the course outline, content, testing and evaluative
tools for the nursing orientation program; providing classroom
structured didactic teaching and the clinical instruction on the
nursing unit; identifying individual and group learning needs
through the conference and feedback from orienteers.
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Addresses the educational needs of all nursing personnel
By
Meeting periodically with Supervisors and Charge Nurses to identify
educational needs of nursing staff members; conferring with the
Director of Nurses and Supervisors to evaluate effectiveness of
orientation and educational programs; observing nursing staff
members directly to determine how behavioral expectations from
classes and courses are implemented; initiating and analyzing
surveys of learning needs and develops courses and programs from
same.
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Plan and implements all educational programs
By
Encouraging nursing personnel to assist in the development of
educational programs, utilizing their ideas and methods of
instruction toward improvement of resident care; instructing the
formal programs utilizing a variety of teaching methods dependent
upon the structure level, needs of the group and content being
taught; utilizing appropriate multimedia variations for
instructional purposes.
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Maintains educational library and audiovisual equipment and
resources for the Staff Development Office and Nursing
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Keeping abreast of current resource materials in nursing and
education; maintaining reference material and resources for nursing
and education; developing and maintaining systems for the
utilization of resource materials.
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Coordinate the utilization of Fairhaven as a clinical facility with
affiliating schools
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Providing orientation and education for instructions for policies,
procedures and routines that will affect their instruction of
students; scheduling the utilization of classrooms for affiliating
agencies for educational activities, conferring with agency
instructors to discuss problems relating to students' experience in
clinical areas.
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Maintains flexibility of responsibilities and accepts other
assignments as delegated
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Reviewing regulations for required inservice programs for long term
care facilities; contacting the appropriate resource people and
arrange for programs to be conducted; sending memos and evaluating
attendance for all programs; evaluating the effectiveness of all
programs; maintaining inservice records.
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Monitors Infection Control throughout the facility
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Performing quarterly surveillance rounds throughout the facility;
conducting onsite inservices when appropriate; monitoring infection
control surveillance records; collecting and performing cross
reference of infection monitoring sheets from nursing units with
monthly reports from the laboratory; distributing monthly reports
to nursing supervisors.
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Maintains staff health records.
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Obtaining completed staff physical examination forms; conducting
yearly Mantoux tuberculosis testing for all employees; providing
vaccines, i.e. Hep B, influenza, etc. for employees per Health
Policy; meeting requirements of exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens
Policy.
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Maintains Workman's Compensation Records and OSHA 200 Log
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Collecting employee incident reports and keeping required records;
communicating effectively with insurance company; assessing need
for training in safety.
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Conserves resources
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Using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish tasks; reviews
and analyzes needs to obtain appropriate resources to complete
tasks.
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Contributes to team effort
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Accomplishing related results as needed; providing instruction in
areas of expertise to other team members when necessary as part of
the on-going educational process.
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Prepares work to be accomplished
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Gathering, sorting, and prioritizing documents and related
information; provides direction and instructions to personnel when
and where appropriate to complete tasks as needed.
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Keeps equipment operational
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Following manufacturer's instructions and established procedures;
orders and maintains stock of equipment and supplies; monitors
equipment to ensure safety and proper operations.
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17. - Safety is monitored and ensured
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Demonstrating, monitoring, and educating staff regarding safety
rules, safe work practices, proper material handling and emergency
procedures; enforcing Fairhaven disciplinary
system for staff who break or disregard safety rules, safe work
practices, proper material handling
and emergency procedures.
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QUALIFICATIONS
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- - - - - - - - - - - EDUCATION
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- - - - - - - - - - - Preferred Baccalaureate Degree in nursing
from an approved nursing college
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- - - - - - - - - - - Five years or greater experience in nursing
and have demonstrated leadership ability.
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Keywords: Fairhaven_Healthcare_Center, Lowell , Staff Development Coordinator, Other , Lowell, Massachusetts
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