Clinical Educator - Surgical Suite

Job description

Since 1887, Crouse Health has been a leading healthcare provider in Central New York. We’ve combined a family-friendly culture with a passion to provide the best care, which creates an environment where both patients and team members feel valued. Crouse Health offers a full range of general and specialty care, inpatient and outpatient services, as well as community health education and outreach programs.
Crouse’s Surgical Suite / OR team is hiring a Clinical Educator to provide training, assistance and guidance to staff within the Witting Surgical Center by acting as a resource person with the intent to provide optimum perioperative patient care.
Available Schedule(s): Full-Time, 7:00am-3:30pm and other shifts as needed
Salary Range - $93,000 plus based on experience and education
Clinical Educator Responsibilities:
• Proactively facilitates department orientation for new employees, in-service education sessions and other specialized education programs in the area of assigned responsibility.
• Effectively promotes role competence, learning and change.
• Collaborates with department leadership with the daily functioning of the department by evaluating assignments and efficiency opportunities.
• Professionally acts as both a formal and informal consultant, assists with the integration of new learning and serves as a resource by assisting in identifying problems, identifying available internal and external educational resources, and selecting educational options.
• Actively participates in evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving professional development activities, nursing practice, policies and procedures, and patient outcomes.
• Assists others to identify both their learning needs and the effective learning activities required to meet those needs while fostering a positive attitude about the benefits and opportunities of life-long learning.
• Collaboratively assists in the creation of educational programs.
• Effectively facilitates the educational process through assessment, development, planning, implementation and evaluation of competency.

Clinical Educator Requirements:
• Currently licensed as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing or a current matriculation in a Bachelor's in Nursing degree program with an established program end-date.
• Certification in a specialty area; if hired without CNOR, a commitment to obtaining this certification will be required
• Two (2) years of operating room nursing experience required
• Two (2) years’ experience as a clinical educator preferred
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required at the time of hire or within two (2) weeks after hire.

Benefits Overview:
• Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, and 401K.
• Company paid life insurance.
• Tuition Assistance and Workforce Development Opportunities.
• Crouse Health Employee Assistance Program.
• Employee discounts on any Inpatient or Outpatient service, hospital cafeteria and pharmacy, and certain retailers.
• YMCA Subsidy program.