Practice Education Coordinator

**Pclass #**
- F9863**Area**
- School of Health**Job Summary**
- Reporting to the Dean, School of Health Sciences, the Practice Education Coordinator (PEC) interacts and works collaboratively with the department leaders, faculty, staff, and students within the School of Health, as well as with local and regional Health Authorities and receiving health care agencies. The incumbent is required to collaborate with external agencies and assist in developing partnerships and networks as well as represent the School of Health Sciences. The Practice Education Coordinator supervises the Student Placement Assistant delegating and overseeing work as appropriate. This position works with department leaders, faculty, staff, and students in the School of Health, providing support and advice with clinical placements to help provide excellent, appropriate, and safe clinical practice experiences for students within the School of Health.
- The Practice Education Coordinator leads the advancement of Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the School of Health Sciences and works with the department leaders, faculty, and staff to promote IPE activities**Job Duties/Responsibilities**

**1. Collaborates with**
**SHS**
**departments and outside health care agencies to coordinate safe and appropriate practice education learning experiences that will allow course learning objectives to**

**be achieved.**
- Uses HSPnet and HSPnet resources as the main tool to coordinate practice education.
- Maintains active involvement in Nursing Interschool (NIS) association and follows NIS guidelines for placing students in practice education experiences in the Lower Mainland.
- Collaborates with department leaders, team leaders and clinical faculty within VCC and receiving Coordinators from outside agencies to ensure appropriate practice education sites are utilized, providing many opportunities for course learning objectives to be achieved.
- Working in collaboration with the Student Placement Assistant and the SHS department team leaders and assigned faculty, the PEC determines which clinical sites are appropriate and are to
- be requested through HSPnet following the NIS guidelines.
- Supervises and advises Student Placement Assistant with regards to HSPnet input, clinical site computer access, and medication system access for students and faculty. Assists and troubleshoots, as necessary.
- Facilitates ongoing communication with faculty regarding practice education experiences.

**2. Main point of contact between clinical agencies and the School of Health Science. Disseminates information between the two parties and encourages two-way communication.**
- Disseminates all Health Authority and outside agency required information to affected VCC team leaders, faculty, and staff as appropriate and vice versa.
- Attends Program Advisory Committee (PAC) meetings for all SHS departments and provides information regarding the SHS practice education experiences.
- Intervenes and mediates as necessary with practice education problems and issues, with the objective of supporting VCC faculty and maintaining practice education sites and relationships. In collaboration with SHS departments and outside agencies, initiates and advises the SHS on student clinical admission requirements following Provincial Practice Education Guidelines (PEG) and current policies within the four major Health regions in the VCC practice education assignment areas (Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Providence Health Care, Fraser Health Authority, and Provincial Health Services Authority).**3. Collaborates with and provides leadership within the School of Health Science departments to ensure all Provincial Practice Education Guidelines (**
**PEG**
**) for practice education are adhered to and followed by students and faculty.**
- Provides information sessions to students and faculty regarding practice education requirements (example: clinical requirements needed such as SPECO, immunization, TB, CRC, fit test, CPR, flu vaccine, Covid vaccine, Violence Prevention Training etc.)
- Works with SHS department leaders, faculty, and staff to ensure all PEG and VCC clinical requirements for both faculty and students are collected, assessable, and stored securely.
- Working with each department in the SHS, the PEC helps create, implement, and maintain new and existing systems for collection and storage of PEG required data for students and faculty.
- Working with the Student Placement Assistant, the PEC collects and securely stores faculty PEG clinical requirements.
- Initiates and works collaboratively with SHS department leaders and the SHS dean in the development of policies and procedures for practice education.
- Collaborates with the VCC Registration Office to ensure practice education admission requirements are requested and collected.

**4. Provides support to School of Health Science departments with practice education issues regarding student and faculty issues.**
- Provides intro