Department Operations
- Works directly with the Clinical Education Department Head to help provide vision and leadership
- Assists with term start management, including the review and evaluation of term-start procedures, risks and observations to proactively identify gaps that require team collaboration for mitigation and process improvement.
- Keeps abreast of new technological advances and systems designed to meet departmental needs
- Develops and implements methods to ensure compliance requirements are communicated and adhered to by students
- Promotes and ensures excellent customer service to students and affiliated sites
- Works effectively with other departments across all campuses to coordinate Clinical Education activities and promote change. Provides departmental changes and updates to faculty and staff
- Oversees audit activities and recommends and implements changes for improvement as a result of audit results
- Develops and implements action plans as needed to support accuracy, data integrity and system reliability
- Maintains the clinical education handbooks
- Ensures accuracy of the system wide Education Support Plan
Strategic Planning
- Collaborates with the Department Head to establish and implement processes and policies that optimize efficient and effective services to meet accreditation standards and curriculums for all campuses and programs
- Proposes strategies for the clinical education department to ensure successful student placements in diverse settings that meet programmatic requirements
- Develops and implements methods for staff and faculty training and development needs to support organizational activities
- Develops and enhances relationships within the University to routinely solicit information regarding clinical sites and student placement
- Promotes continuous improvement within the department by evaluation of existing methods and procedures and introduces new processes
- Assist in the resolution of service-related issues through collaboration with other departments
- Serves as a liaison between all programs and the clinical education sites
Site Development
- Promotes and facilitates site visits with contracted clinical sites to help maintain collaboration
- Monitors site development activities by clinical site representatives to ensure successful recruiting of clinical sites and implementing changes as needed to meet University needs
- Promotes and updates department processes for acquiring and maintaining clinical placement, organizational partners and preceptors
- Provides support to campus clinical coordinators and support staff in clinical placements and with clinical instructors
Core Management Responsibilities
- Ensures department services and activities are effectively achieving University goals and objectives
- Familiar with current accreditation knowledge that includes an understanding of the required educational objectives and an understanding of the clinical practice for all programs
- Demonstrates a breadth of clinical experience
- Has knowledge of diverse organizational environments in which healthcare providers practice as well as knowledge of the types of clinical sites needed to meet course content and objectives
- Maintains a visible profile on campuses and engage with the faculty, students, and staff communities
- Promotes the commitment to cultural diversity
- Promotes the University's core values and upholds their professional, ethical and integrity standards
- Supports and demonstrates a student-centered philosophy
- Provides direction for assessment and evaluation of the department to enhance the competence of team members
- Participates in staff selection, training, workload and performance evaluations
- Motivates, coaches and counsels to ensure a high-performance team
Employment Type
Regular
Job Title
Assistant Director Clinical Education
External Requirements
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND EXPERIENCE:
- Knowledgeable of education accreditation standards, especially in health sciences
- Ability to manage and work effectively in a highly ethnic and culturally diverse student and associate community
- Masters' degree in related field or equivalent experience
- Three or more years of progressive levels of leadership, responsibility and expertise, preferably as a Department Manager; Health Science programs preferred
- Demonstrated record of and commitment to promoting equal opportunity and diversity among students and staff
- Exceptional leadership, communication and management skills
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, and to interact effectively with colleagues, administrators and faculty members and students, as well as external constituencies
- Familiarity with the needs of a diverse student population
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and ideally have experience in Adobe creative packages
- Valid driver's license for State of residence and at least minimum liability insurance required by State
- Ability to travel within the United States as necessary
Institution
University of St Augustine
City
Austin
Position Type
Staff
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