Clinical Educator/facilitator

Overview:
Join a hospital where everyone makes a difference Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a thriving community hospital that proudly provides acute care services including: Emergency, Surgery, Medicine, Women’s and Children’s Health, Intensive Care, Mental Health, and Inpatient Rehabilitation.

Our vision is to **_creating healthier communities together_**_._ Our dedicated and skilled staff are passionate about providing outstanding patient-centred care, and an exceptional patient experience to residents of the Waterloo Region and beyond.
- Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
- Group benefits, including health and dental, for full-time employees
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Leadership and Quality Improvement Curriculum
- Career Development & Education Grant
- Wellness, & Wellbeing Program
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

**Job Description**:
Reporting to the Manager of Professional Practice, the Clinical Educator/Facilitator (CEF) - Women and Children’s Programs serves as a role model and leader to support care that optimizes patient outcomes and experiences while enhancing the safety, efficiency, effectiveness and accessibility of patient care by:

- Assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating education for nursing and the inter-professional team
- Enhancing current knowledge and skills of theory and practice in their area of specialty through continuous learning
- Serving as a clinical practice/education resource using sound clinical judgement
- Being change agents and roles models that advocate for and create learning/education environments that enhance clinical and professional practice and life-long learning
- Working with other clinical leaders to support the development of staff, including participation in corporate education and other initiatives
- Collaborating with inter-professional teams and external partners to influence and advance best practices in education and evidence based practice

**Responsibilities**:
The primary role of the Clinical Educator/Facilitator - Women and Children’s Programs is to facilitate a learning environment where evidence-based knowledge is translated via education to optimize the patient’s outcomes and experiences. This includes developing educational plans and activities aimed at improving nursing/clinical knowledge, skills and competencies and in collaboration with others, and supporting the ongoing professional development of unit/program staff.
- The Clinical Educator/Facilitator has three main areas of responsibility._

**Education**:

- Education and staff development, particularly in relation to nurses
- Assess learning needs and styles of inter-professional team
- Design and deliver education that is tailored to specific needs of individual/unit/program
- Develop curricula using contemporary educational theories, principles, and models
- Develop outlines and content for orientation within Pedeatrics, Special Care Nursery and Labour and Devivery.
- Incorporates best evidence and relevant research findings into content and delivery methods
- Incorporates best practices in education (e.g. principles of adult learning, domains of learning)
- Incorporates inter-professional core competencies where applicable
- Monitors and evaluates education and mastery of student learning; revises education and learning activities to meet emerging needs
- Demonstrates professionalism including legal, ethical and professional values as a basis for developing nursing standards, guidelines, policies, procedures and decision making

**Consultation/Collaboration**:

- Engages and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify and support educational, clinical practice, and Corporate initiatives
- Engages members of the intra
- and inter-professional team, management team and across hospital departments in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating educational, clinical practice, and Corporate initiatives
- Actively participates in the Clinical Educator/Facilitator team and works collaboratively with other CEF colleagues
- Collaborates with the hospital’s Inter-professional Education Coordinator to facilitate nursing student placements and adherence to learning management system requirements
- Collaborates with Clinical Manager(s) in interviewing, hiring and contributing to the evaluation of nursing, health disciplines, and clerical staff
- Participates in hospital and corporate committees and other groups to represent the CEF perspective and serves as a bridge to the unit/program and Clinical Educator/Facilitator team by disseminating committee information and decisions

**Research and Quality Improvement**:

- Supports and participates in the implementation of evidence based practice (best practice guidelines and other forms of evidence) and quality improvement initiatives on unit/in programs including Corporate initiatives
- Leads, supports, and participates in programmatic and unit/clinic based