JOB SUMMARY:

The Clinical Nurse Educator is a key member of the educational leadership team, supporting both the department’s and the organization’s strategic direction. As a key member, the educator ensures that educational initiatives and processes support the standards for Best Practice, Sidra policies, and regulatory requirements. The educator works collaboratively with respective unit leads in supporting the development, maintenance and advancement of competence in Sidra employees. The Clinical Nurse Educator provides clinical development and training, formulating and delivering educational programs and assessment of skills and competency. The post holder identifies risks in educational processes, informing leadership and actively participating in managing timely solutions. The post holder develops the unit-specific design and delivery of orientation and ongoing clinical education and participates in the development and delivery of institution-wide clinical education initiatives.

KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• In collaboration with the Manager/Director - Nursing Education and Practice Development, makes decisions regarding the need for new educational initiatives; the design, delivery and assessment. This is driven by quantitative data reflecting employee competence, the culture of patient safety, and effective family centered care and qualitative data assessing employee/ patient/ family satisfaction, with implications for changes to educational initiatives and assessment criteria, tools, and processes.
• In collaboration with clinical leads, makes decisions regarding clinical staff performance in their respective practice settings. He/ she participates in the assessment of competence of each clinical staff member, with respective managers or identified clinical leads.
• Serves as a professional and clinical role model for staff demonstrating behaviors consistent with the organizational/ education competency framework, Sidra values and Sidra policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensures that education is provided in accordance with established guidelines, policies and protocols of Sidra and the State of Qatar to support standards of health service delivery.
• Works collaboratively and creatively with all team members to achieve divisional/ departmental/ unit service objectives optimizing evidence and relevant research and change theory.
• Develops key performance indicators for clinical staff.
• Manages resource utilization to secure timely, efficient, accessible and effective education for employees.
• Continually evaluates learning, making necessary modifications to optimize educational process/ program.
• Supports quality data collection and analysis as the process of evaluating outcomes; learning, staff/ family centered care and satisfaction, patient/ family outcomes.
• Collaborates with clinical managers, colleagues, and leadership team to plan, implement and evaluate the educational needs of staff and family.
• Initiates changes/ improvements based on educator/ staff/ family feedback.
• Promotes the effective orientation, precepting and support of new staff and affiliated students in the practice setting; provides a welcoming work environment.
• Promotes retention of all staff by creating a healthy work environment that facilitates teamwork. Treats colleagues, patients and visitors with dignity and respect at all times.
• Contributes, as necessary, to performance appraisals (probationary and annual reviews) with respective clinical leads ensuring evidence is concrete and objective.
• Develops individual learning plans with clinical leads arising from appraisals as necessary. Provides clear feedback to team members in a manner that is conducive to maintaining and improving performance.
• Supports Clinical research.
• Role models conflict resolution when required, promoting evidence based solutions where accessible.
• Establishes and maintains effective administrative processes related to educational programs and processes.
• Prepares reports and maintains records of activity and outcomes. Participates in staff meetings.
• Develops, reviews and revises educational policies and procedures in collaboration with managers as required.
• Participates in Sidra wide Performance Improvement activities and committees as assigned.
• Develops and sustains own knowledge, clinical skills and professional awareness and maintains a professional profile. Provides documented evidence of performance and maintenance of skills consistent with position.
• Supports new Sidra employees and affiliated students with a safe and effective learning environment to support the assessment, development or advancement of competence in the Sidra environment
• Integrates knowledge of learning theory and curricula design in delivering educational initiatives to meet the needs of Sidra employees and affiliated students.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

5 + years Pediatric Critical Care Nursing Experience and 2 years Clinical Nurse Educator experience or practice development role experience. Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and holds a current Registered Nurse license. It would be preferred it the candidate held certification/diploma in Education. Cardiac Intensive Care Unit experience would be beneficial. Must have a working knowledge of learning theory and curriculum design.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Registered Nurse

Experience:

• 5+ years of inpatient/outpatient pediatric acute care nursing experience
• 2+ years of recent experience in an educator role or staff development role in an acute care Hospital or as clinical faculty
• Demonstrated working knowledge of learning theory and curriculum design