Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Part time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

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COORD. & INSTRUCTOR, COMMUNITY CHILDBIRTH EDU PRGM
Job Description:
Duties/Responsibilities:
Clinical Inquiry
The ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice to provide informed, evidence based care.

• Formulates and raises vital clinical questions and issues clearly and precisely
  
• Brings community education issues to the attention of others when assistance is needed to facilitate resolution
  
• Utilizes reliable sources for locating current standards of practice, research, evidence reports, literature, and clinical guidelines
  
• Uses QI tools and methodologies to assess performance and identify gaps between current & best practice related to key clinical outcome measures
  
• Establishes and maintains a system for assessment and evaluation of educational programming that complies with evolving regulatory agency requirements.
  

Clinical Scholarship
Those activities which systematically advance the teaching, research, and practice of nursing through rigorous inquiry.

• Participates in the development and sustainability of standards for professional practice and maternal child health community nursing education programs designed to facilitate high quality patient care.
  
• Actively builds effective interdisciplinary relationships to assure timely effective dialogue around community education needs in an effort to enhance evidence based, outcome driven patient care
  
• Contributes to the design of a community education curriculum that is evidence based and reflects contemporary and innovative nursing practice
  
• Maintains own clinical expertise and practices as an autonomous clinical decision maker within their scope of licensure, certification, and training.
  

Teaching / Learning

• Assesses community educational needs and develops and implements evidence based educational curricula to support accomplishment of annual educational goals
  
• Incorporates principles of adult learning and multigenerational differences in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of education programs
  
• Creates a learning atmosphere of respect, compassion, support and open dialogue to facilitate effective educational process.
  
• Teaches classes related to the care of patients in maternal child health ensuring that education program materials include culturally appropriate and age specific content.
  
• Uses instructional materials from various media and formats as appropriate to learning environment.
  
• Refers women and their family members to additional resources as appropriate.
  
• Recommends changes in educational goals, priorities, and/or strategies based on evaluation of effectiveness of educational programming using process and outcome data.
  
• Facilitates the implementation of new health care technology through design of effective training programs and evaluation monitoring.
  
• Demonstrates engagement in lifelong learning and independently identifies own learning needs; participates in educational activities to enable competent performance of assigned duties
  
• Shares new knowledge or education outcomes at professional conferences and/or publishes in peer-review journals.
  

Authentic Leadership
Ability to bring people together around a shared purpose and empower others to experience meaningful connections with patients/families and staff.

• Creates a learning environment that is capable of adapting to and sustaining change; is flexible and open to new ideas
  
• Establishes collegial relationships with multidisciplinary team to promote a productive work environment.
  
• Participates in the development, implementation and monitoring of practice standards to assure continuous improvement in the quality of service and care.
  
• Supports the integration of quality, audit, evaluation data and research into practice and educational programs.
  
• Facilitates teambuilding and leadership development and seeks out opportunities to serve as change leader for community health education program.
  
• Hires, manages and evaluates performance of community education instructors.
  

It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.

Education/Experience Required:

• BSN required; Master’s degree preferred
  
• Two years of progressively responsible education and/or leadership experience
  
• Five years of recent maternal child health nursing experience
  
• Demonstrated ability to apply principles of adult learning to the development of effective staff, patient and/or family education programs.
  
• Experience in program development and evaluation
  
• Analytical ability to solve systems issues, interpret available data and design/conduct quality improvement projects.
  
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving ability
  
• Organizational skill to appropriately set priorities and efficiently complete work
  
• Advanced verbal, interpersonal, and writing skills in order to perform required leadership duties
  
• Demonstrated ability as an effective public speaker and presenter
  
• Computer proficiency inclusive of ability to access and enter and retrieve data from computerized information systems e.g. Meditech and Microsoft Office programs
  
• Willingness to work flexible hours to meet education needs of the community and staff
  
• Consistently demonstrates the Core values of Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth
  
• Comply with all applicable Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth policies and procedures
  
• Physical ability to perform core job responsibilities in accordance with practice setting demands for patient and staff populations regularly served
  
• Occasional travel may be required to facilitate collaboration with entities across BID system or attend external meetings.
  

Registration/Certification:

• Current RN license in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  
• Completion of one of the following programs:
  
  • Boston Association for Childbirth Education (BACE)
    
  • Certified Childbirth Education (CCE)
    
  • International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)- this is the preferred program
    
• BLS Certification from American Heart Association program
  
• NRP instructor level certification is preferred
  
• Educator certification (NPD) preferred
  

Physical/Environmental Requirements
This job requires frequent bending, carrying, pulling, pushing, reaching, standing, stooping, walking and lifting over 10 lbs. There will be occasional need for climbing stairs, lifting in excess of 50 – 100 lbs and sitting. Constant use of hearing, sight and speech. Frequent use of smell and touch. Frequent keyboard and telephone use. Constant concentration and problem solving.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.

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