The Nurse Trainer willparticipatein the design, implementation, and evaluation of trainingcurricula provided to direct support professionals and others working inbehavioral health settings inOakland and Macomb counties. Outcomes include the training of staff toimprove the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, safe, individualized person/family-centered care.The Nurse Trainer will show a knowledge base that includes usingavariety ofadultteaching strategies, assessment, and evaluation methods.
Essential Functions
- With the training team, develop health-related courses for implementation within the network.
- Provide education, training, and employee development classes related to healthy lifestyles, health care andnursing.
- Ensure competency in Medications Administration, Basic Health, and other courses for direct support professionals working within our network.
- Ensure curricula content meets various licensing and state guidelines for direct support professionals.
- Ensure competency assessments,comprisedof individualized appointments to evaluate return demonstrations forBasic Health andMedicationAdministration for each participant who successfully completes thosetrainings.
- Provide consultation as needed/requested to providersregardingtheir conformance to health and medication training standards.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements and Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, BSN, from an accredited college/university.
Training Requirements (licenses, programs, or certificates):
- An active unrestricted Michigan registered nurse (R.N.) license.
- At least 2 years of nursing experience as a registered nurse within the last 5 yearsimmediatelypreceding the application, including teaching in a health care-related field or a job that requires common direct practice nursing competencies.
- At least 1 year (1,600 hourstotal) of which must be in the provision of long-term care facility services. A long-term care facility is a state licensed nursing home, hospital long-term care unit, specialized residential home, county care facility, homes for the aged, assisted living facility, hospice, or other like provider type.
- Must have completed a course in teaching adults or have experience in teaching adults.
Experience Requirements:
- Experience in staff development and/or training and an understanding of psychiatric diagnoses, thebehavioralhealth service system, medication administration/processes, integrated healthcare and service needsrequired.
- Experience with mental health/dual diagnosis, intellectual / developmental disabilities, community mental health experience preferred.
Preferred Experience:
Job Specific Competencies/Skills:
- Ability to teach basicmedical tasks to a continuum of learners including temperatures, blood pressures, medication administration (based on MD orders)and documentation,side effect monitoring,blood sugar monitoring,and others.
Knowledge Requirements:
Oakland Community Health Network’sCore Competencies:
- Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization;demonstratingloyalty to the organization and its mission and values;maintainingsocial, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles. (Integrity/Building Trust)
- Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships, recognizing that the ultimate customer is the person served. (Customer Focus)
- Activelyidentifyingnew areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application. (Continuous Learning)
- Settinghigh standardsof performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards ofexcellence in addition to consciously adopting organizational standards of excellence. (Work Standards)
- Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.(Communication)
AdditionalInformation
(Travel required, physical requirements, etc.):
- Must have available means of transportation to and from OCHN and for required offsite meetings or site visits.
- Must be available for meetings and events which may occur outside of standard office hours.
- Work performed primarily in an office environment.
- This position is approximately 80% office based and 20% remote/home office.
- Hybrid (onsite/remote) work schedule available, generally up to 1 day/week, following completion of their orientation period (90 days).
- The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
OCHN is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive and equitable culture. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that embraces and encourages our employees’ differences. This includes (but is not limited to) ability, age, color, family type, gender expression and identity, individual expression, medical conditions, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and all other diverse and wonderful characteristics.
