Clinical Professional Development Practitioner Respiratory

Job Description:

The Clinical Professional Development (CPD) Practitioner is proficient in clinical education standards supporting and guiding caregivers in self-reliance and self-development. The CPD Practitioner assesses, guides, supports, coordinates, and evaluates caregiver orientation and ongoing learning needs in alignment with their associated program, service line, or care group. The CPD Practitioner may be required to travel to various locations to fulfil their work responsibilities.

Job Specifics:

• Benefits Eligible: Yes
• Department/Unit: Respiratory

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Essential Functions:

• Learning Facilitator: Serves as a resource, consultant, and mentor to caregivers and preceptors, promoting self-reliance and teamwork. Guides new caregiver orientation, supports ongoing learning, and uses standardized tools. Applies educational design and adult learning principles to address gaps from needs assessments and evaluations in their assigned area.
• Change Agent: Collaborates with colleagues across the organization to understand goals, priorities, and learning needs for care areas (e.g., performance, competencies, skills, new initiatives), ensuring the adoption of evidence-based practices within specialties for all caregivers. Facilitates high quality and focused new caregiver orientation, supports ongoing learning needs of existing caregivers, and clinical coaches, ensuring learning opportunities by utilizing standardized orientation tools and resources
• Mentor: Provides coaching and mentoring to preceptors and caregivers to assist them in managing their personal learning, growth, and job enrichment opportunities. Provides coaching and mentoring to clinical coaches and caregivers to assist them in managing their own personal learning, growth, and job enrichment opportunities.
• Leader: Facilitates interprofessional learning, and advancements in their clinical discipline, and healthcare. Acts as a resource, consultant, and mentor, inspiring self-reliance and teamwork within the care site and PDPE service line.
• Champion for Inquiry: Fosters the creation and sharing of new knowledge and uses evidence to advance clinical practice and enhance patient care.
• Partner for Practice Transition: Collaborates with stakeholders to ensure smooth transitions for new and existing caregivers. Supports the integration of new practices and initiatives, facilitates orientation and ongoing education, and promotes seamless adaptation to changes within the care environment.

Skills:

• Communication Skills
• Interprofessional Skills
• Adult Learning & Patient Education
• Learning Assessment
• Curriculum Development
• Learning & Professional Development
• Tech Proficiency
• Research Integration
• Evidence-Based Practice
• Quality Improvement

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in clinical discipline from an accredited institution (degree verification required.)
• Current clinical license in the state of practice.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification for healthcare providers.
• Demonstrated experience in adult education or staff development.
• Demonstrated clinical experience and excellence.
• Must live within the footprint of Intermountain Health.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in clinical discipline, education or related field.
• Certification in Education Development, Instructional Design, or specialty credential.
• Three (3) years of relevant clinical experience.
• Local, Regional, or National Presentations or Publications.

Physical Requirements:

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.
• Frequent interactions with providers, colleagues, customers, patients/clients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate supplies and equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

Location:

Saint Joseph Hospital

Work City:

Denver

Work State:

Colorado

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. 

$ $59.82

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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