Respiratory Care Clinical Educator

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Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs is a top-ranked hospital located in a top-ranked city.

With a regional team of more than 1,000 team members, Children’s Colorado has been present in southern Colorado since 2001 and now has team members at five locations providing outpatient specialty care, emergency care, inpatient care and therapy care. Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs is the first pediatric-only hospital in the region and includes the region’s only emergency department and operating rooms built just for kids and served by pediatric experts who have dedicated their lives to treating kids – and only kids – and who are directly linked to one of the country’s leading pediatric academic medical centers.

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The Respiratory Care Clinical Educator utilizes respiratory arts and sciences to independently work with an interdisciplinary team to provide expertise in respiratory care education, educational design, and evidence-based practice. The Respiratory Care Clinical Educator works to provide quality patient management, education, and facilitates the delivery of comprehensive respiratory care to patients and families. Major responsibilities and functional areas include, but are not limited to, demonstrated leadership in the following: clinical practice, consultation, education, evidence base practice, research, and quality improvement with a focus on optimal patient outcomes and dissemination of information. The Respiratory Care Clinical Educator reports to the Department Director in advising/collaborating on education strategies aimed at improving patient safety and clinical effectiveness. Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing leadership in the areas of education, professional development, and evidence-based practice and quality, assessing, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating programs specific to competency, orientation, in-service education, career development and role transition for clinically focused respiratory care providers.

Department Name: CSH Respiratory Care
Job Status: 40 hours/week
Shift: This position requires flexibility with your schedule to meet the needs of patient care and team support. Hours may include evenings, overnights, early mornings, weekends, and occasionally holidays.

EDUCATION – Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Care or Health-Care related field. Master’s Degree in Healthcare related field preferred.
EXPERIENCE – Five years of experience providing respiratory care in a healthcare setting.
CERTIFICATION(S) – BLS for health care providers/CPR, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT);
Neonatal-Pediatric Specialty (NPS) certification required within 90 days of hire
LICENSURE - State of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) Respiratory Therapist license

We are looking for someone who is innovative and able to recognize and adapt to different learning styles, meeting people where they are in their development. The ideal candidate will be open, patient, and kind, with the agility to model the behaviors and skills needed to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. This role requires someone who can foster a supportive atmosphere while guiding others toward success.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all the following essential functions. These examples do not include all the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Provides leadership in assessing learning needs, incorporating adult learning principles to facilitate active learner involvement when planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating professional development programs and outcomes.
2. Facilitates critical reasoning skills in team members through role modeling, teaching, coaching, and/or mentoring; selects the most appropriate method of teaching to accommodate learning styles and the learning environment.
3. Leads preceptors and collaborates with clinical leaders to coordinate, plan, and evaluate clinical learning experiences for respiratory students and new hires to meet learner needs and maintain safe quality patient care.
4. Designs, organizes, implements and/or teaches in collaboration with interdisciplinary team members; develops educational offerings that support respiratory personnel and provide safe quality patient care in order to promote positive outcomes.
5. Supports the integration of evidence into practice through participation in quality, evidence-based practice, and research activities that align with the organizational strategic plan.
6. Acts as an educational resource and mentor by providing guidance, resources, and knowledge for the professional growth of patient care team members, students, and others.
7. Utilizes evidence-based practice as a member of the interdisciplinary team in the development, revision and evaluation of policies, procedures, respiratory standards, and guidelines for practice.
8. Contributes to the healthcare community through presentations, publications, and involvement in professional organizations.
9. Demonstrates leadership, team building, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills to build partnerships within and across systems, including communities.
10. Identifies and develops strategies that meet career goals, tasks, and challenges in different stages throughout a therapist’s career.
11. Collaborates with department leadership in promoting customer-focused delivery of care and achieving departmental and organizational goals.

SCOPE AND LEVEL
Guidelines: Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
Complexity: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.
Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
Communications: Contacts with the public or employees where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed.

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

Salary Information

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.