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Job Description
- The Professional Development Director, utilizing innovative and flexible solutions, evidence-based practice, and practice-based evidence, is responsible for establishing an environment that facilitates professional growth, role competence and proficiency in their specialty. The Manager is accountable for the achievement of professional and clinical outcomes for all assigned staff and or patient populations.
- In collaboration with the Clinical Nursing Director, the professional development manager is responsible for the interview and selection of unit staff (professional and technical). For the first 6 months to one year, based upon advancement with competencies, all staff newly hired will have a direct reporting relationship with the professional development manager. This will facilitate continuous performance feedback for the new hires during the initial orientation phase and pivotal first year of practice; ensuring successful professional enculturation and specialty nursing advancement and performance.
- The Clinical Nursing Director, the Professional Development Director and the Nurse Executive team, collaborate closely as the nursing leadership team with the Professional Development Manager serving as the accountable role for staff competence and outcomes that provide excellence in patient safety and quality, create a culture of safety and lead the development of nursing practice.
- The overall outcome of professional development is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that translate into practice and contribute to the safety of patients/families and provision of quality care. In addition to acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitude, specialty excellence includes the evaluation and measurement of current clinical knowledge, proficiency of technical skills, application of critical thinking and performance by each member of the nursing team. The Professional Development Manager leads the development of these measures and methods and evaluation of staff performance and practice outcomes.
- To guide and mentor nurses in their development toward professional experts who represent the profession
- To select and hire professional and technical staff for the specialty practice
- Develop measure and methods for the evaluation of staff performance and their practice outcomes
- To provide and facilitate continuous performance feedback in order to advance nurses and techs knowledge, skill and practice
- To support development and utilization of other care team members
- To ensure evidence-based standards of care are being practiced clinically
- To provide consultation in the delivery of care that inspires excellence in knowledge, skill, and leadership at the bedside.
Orientation:
- Develops, coordinates, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates orientation programs and innovative learning approaches for staff
- Partners in developing recruiting strategy plans, interviewing and hiring new positions within scope of designated patient population(s)
- Responsible for facilitation of all aspects of on boarding progression and specialty enculturation, including counseling and separation recommendations when required Provides performance feedback including active participation in the annual performance appraisal.
Competency Program:
- Develops, coordinates, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates competency programs for all staff
- Ensures staff competency
- Achieves successful outcomes by utilizing innovative and flexible methodologies.
- Monitors and ensures excellence in the clinical practice of nursing and the delivery of patient care within the assigned practice area(s)
- Provides continuous substantive performance feedback for all staff and during the orientation phase and for 6 months to one year is primary author of performance appraisal for new staff
- Accountable for competence achievement of staff through planning, collaboration, coaching and counseling
- Recommends, initiates, provides, and documents formal discipline. When necessary recommends additional discipline in collaboration with Clinical Nursing Director
In-service Education:
- Develops, coordinates, facilitates, conducts, and evaluates in-service programs for all staff in assigned practice area(s).
Continuing Education:
- Identifies through needs assessment, continuing education opportunities that augment knowledge, skills, and attitudes of all nursing staff
- Demonstrates proficiency in identifying continuing education offerings that are provider directed, learner directed, and learner paced (ANA 2009)
- Creates, manages, implements, coordinates, and evaluates continuing education.
- Career Development and Role Transition:
- For new staff, guides process of goal setting and evaluation of progression against goals
- For all staff, participates in annual individual goal setting or action plan development
- Identifies preceptors within specialty practice and provides guidance and mentorship in development of preceptor role
- Serves as a mentor and facilitates the mentorship of others
- Provides guidance and support for professional presentations by specialty practice staff nurses at national conferences or publications
- Guides and mentors staff in career development, role transition, and succession planning
- May counsel others and coordinate, facilitate, conduct, and evaluate activities that promote career development and role transition.
Research and Scholarship:
- Conducts, encourages, disseminates, and/or participates in research and scholarship, including oral or poster presentations and publications.
Academic Partnerships:
- May serve as an academic liaison and/or adjunct faculty
- May teach, coordinate, and/or advise other learners concerning academic education and scholarly activity
- May facilitate programming, consultation or teach within organizational affiliate structure.
Outcomes Management:
- In collaboration with the interdisciplinary team:
- Ensures excellence in outcomes for all quality, safety, patient experience metrics and regulatory requirements
- Leads and builds the capacity of the staff and interdisciplinary team(s) for excellence in all aspects of their performance and outcomes
- Expert in change management, innovation and systems thinking and planning
Leadership:
- Serves as a highly visible leader and role model in the development/attainment of hospital and unit service line mission and goals
- Embraces the concept of change and leads staff through the change process as evidenced by adoption of new behaviors and/or processes.
Qualifications
AGE-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES:- Knowledge and expertise in growth and development
- Ability to interpret age specific data and responses to care
- Demonstrated ability to develop and engage in patient communications that are age appropriate.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and direct staff
- Demonstrates expert knowledge and skill in patient care within specialty
- Expertise in patient-focused, family-centered care
- Inspires and achieves outcomes in staff learning through formal/informal teaching methods
- Demonstrates quality in clinical performance as evidenced by creativity in problem solving, risk taking and interdisciplinary communications
- Expertise in building high functioning teams and processes that lead to teamwork.
- Ability to work collaboratively with staff in assistive roles, professional nurses, physicians, trainees, and colleagues in all areas of the hospital.
- Ability to achieve outcomes in collaboration with all members of the leadership team
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexibility in work schedule.
- The successful Professional Development Manager will have the skills, knowledge and vision for nursing practice customarily acquired through advanced nursing education through pursuit of masters or DNP.
- Two to three years of experience in healthcare, as appropriate to specialty or designated patient population, required
- Leadership capabilities and skills essential
- Adult learner knowledge and expertise
- Project management experience preferred.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience, which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above, may be substituted for the above education and experience requirements.
- Massachusetts Registered Nurse License required
- BLS Required, Instructor Certification preferred
- ACLS and/or PALS, NRP required
- Specialty certifications highly preferred.
- Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking
- Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfer patients and equipment
- Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching
- Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc.
- Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases and other transmissible infections
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
- Handle emergency and crisis situations
- Subjected to irregular hours
- May have contact with hazardous materials.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES STATEMENT:
Must be able to perform all essential functions of this position with reasonable accommodation if disabled.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. Tufts Medical Center reserves the right to modify position duties at any time, to reflect process improvements and business necessity.
COVID-19 POLICY:Please note that effective October 1, 2021, as a condition of employment at Tufts Medical Center, all employees and new hires must have received their complete dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, unless they have been granted an exemption.
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